Indoor games Books

Play cards and learn to identify various types of fossils throughout North America.Anyone who enjoys geology, history, and paleontology will love these cards for playing your favorite games or to use as flash cards. Inspired by Adventure Publications'...

Play cards and learn to identify marine life of the Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, and Gulf of Mexico.Anyone who enjoys nature, wildlife, and trips to the beach will love these cards for playing your favorite games or to use as flash cards. Inspired by...

A portable pain relief deck that leverages movements the body is already familiar with to ease tension, promote mindfulness, and assist in managing chronic pain.This card deck will help users develop resilience and awareness that allows them to manage...

The ideal gift for all word puzzle enthusiasts! 250 fun puzzles for word game lovers. Based on techniques required for Scrabble, these challenges have been designed to put your word power to the ultimate test. All words used are from the official...

Create the next Snakes and Ladders, Monopoly, Ticket to Ride or Settlers of Catan with this creative board game book! With over 55 boards to customize, Board Games to Create and Play is a doodle book where every page is an unfinished tabletop game. Just...

Search for classic Dungeons & Dragons heroes and monsters across the Forgotten Realms in all its glory! Join the journey of Myopus the All-Seeing, a beholder who is looking for a keen-eyed apprentice to help him find a mischievous band of monsters...

Paul Farrell's stackable cards are fun for all the family Build a skyscraper using the beautifully-designed cards, with only your imagination to limit you.Each pack contains 64 cards (105 x 69 mm) in a variety of graphic designs. Clever paper...

Play Blackjack Like the Pros is the requisite introduction to the modern game of blackjack, including high and low stakes casino, shoe games (several decks shuffled together), online, and tournaments. Kevin Blackwood begins with the basic rules of play...

Tarot: A Modern Guide is a practical guide to the basics of the seventy-eight-card tarot, the most popular deck for self-development and divination.   The tarot is a path to self-development. Its images stimulate us to explore the forces that shape...

This delightfully wicked playing card deck presents devilish boys and ghouls and all manners of ghastly creatures. Inspired by vintage transformational decks, Royal Mischief’s suit marks are mischievously hidden in the aberrant artwork by infamous tarot...

Journey into the days of yore, where knights searched for greatness, magic was ever-present, and destiny was just a moment away. This medieval-themed card deck, full of stunning illustrations detailing the characters of King Arthur and his court, invites...

Your favorite Neopets—now on a full deck of traditional tarot cards. This tarot deck features an all-new box and card layout with a Faerieland theme, so you can channel faeries like Jhudora, Illusen, and Fyora for guidance. With an illustrated guidebook...

Start a new holiday tradition that will have friends and family merrily competing to see who’s the true holiday superfan with this entertaining deck of Christmas trivia.When did A Charlie Brown Christmas first air? What magical item brought Frosty the...

Inspired by the Harry Potter films, Harry Potter Pop-Up Wizard Chess Set is an innovative, plastic-free chess set with an ingenious construction. Designed by David Hawcock, featuring artwork by Richard Davies.Wizard’s chess—like you've never seen before!...

Dive deeper into the magic of the Wizarding World with this engaging card deck featuring 125 thought-provoking, challenging, and quirky questions inspired by the Harry Potter films.The world of the Harry Potter films is endlessly intriguing, filled with...

This book is designed for those familiar with the game who now want to improve their skills and maybe teach others to play. The illustrations are all in colour to simplify identification of the various hands -- 55 in all. The calculator in the back...

The Sicilian is Black's most dynamic, asymmetrical reply to 1. e4. It produces the psychological and tension factors which denote the best in modern play and gives notice of a fierce fight on the very first move. The Sicilian Defense became recognized...

Sound aggression against the Dutch Defence Promises good attacking chances and avoids learning reams of theory about the Leningrad Dutch, the Stonewall or the Classical Dutch, opening set-ups our opponent knows everything about? This book explores such a...

The great board game revolution is here-- What do these games tell us about our society, our relationships, and ourselves? "Games, Jonathan Kay and Joan Moriarity show in this lively and insightful book, are not just fun and games: they allow us to...

The history of the Queen's Gambit isconnected with the very beginnings of modern chess.The opening being cited inthe earliest published books on the science game, such as the Gttingen manuscript(1490) and the books of Ruy Lopez (1561) and Salvio (1604)...

Thissecond and final volume of the Anti-Sicilian series covers our approach for allalternatives to 2...Nc6. The choice against 2...d6 was obvious. The Moscow variationis the only critical alternative to 3.d4 that has caused any concerns for Black by...

Playing card games is more fun than ever with this funny deck that features laugh-out-loud illustrations!William Nealy is an American treasure. The author and cartoonist gained cult-hero status in the outdoor-sports community by blending his passion for...

This is what's new in this edition: More accurate and more extensive annotations, computer-assisted. Every game has beenexamined under Stockfish 14, probably the best analytical engine available forhome computers at this time. For the first edition we...

Jan Boekelman has produced youwith a playable repertoire out of a somewhat sideline Opening, which nobodydared to touch to make it into an entire repertoire.Try to expand your knowledge inthe 3.c3 variation and go beyond the book's contentDeepen your...

The interviews in this book span over twenty years, over two decades. Foryears I went with my recording device to tournaments like Wijk aan Zee,Frankfurt Chess Classic, Hoogeveen... often to interview the interesting playerof the moment in some hotel bar...

Are you struggling with your chess development? While dedicating hours and hours on improving your craft, your rating simply does not want to move upwards? Spending loads of money on chess books and DVDs, but feeling no real improvement at all? No...

The Sveshnikov is undeniably one of the most dynamic and aggressive Sicilians available these days. Most recently, it was made popular again by World Champion Magnus Carlsen in his match against Fabiano Caruana at the end of 2018. The main lines lead to...

To learn and to play endgames well the chess player must love endgames' - Lev Psakhis. Different kinds of endgames have specific characteristics and rules. Every serious player must know many typical positions and main principles of all types of endings...

In his seventh book for Thinkers Publishing, Milos Pavlovic examines the Stonewall set-up in detail. Drawing upon his years of playing experiences and opening study, Milos highlights the key aspects and covers the most recent developments in this most...

Grandmaster Grivas presents the reader an unique and massive amount of amazing puzzles including their historical background. All the most famous and rare tactical themes are covered, promising the read of the year!

The Reti opening has been most popular in the most recent years. In his 'Modernized Reti', Adrien shows how this refined opening needs to be handled. With many transpositions into different types of positions, it is one of the richest choices White has...

In this volume 3, the author presents many games played by legendary players such as Alekhine, Karpov, Kasparov and Fischer, but also many forgotten or unknown examples that will help you to improve your calculation and knowledge of all areas of the game.

The author focused in his first volume on middlegames, now his attention was drawn to endgames. Romain has carefully selected more than 496 positions, which arose in real games in the recent past. He separated the exercises into 11 different categories,...

Adrian and Oleg compiled, resulting from all different kind of middlegames, an impressive amount of most instructive endgames. The ideal material for any chess player or trainer in search of the need endgame finesses and skills.

The Ark has always been consideredone of the theoretically-heaviest defenses in meeting the Ruy Lopez, thoughalso the most exciting and definitely the most beautiful of all. It requirestactical vision, good calculation and memory, but not just from us...

Volume 2 is divided into eight chapters. Unlike Volume 1, it is possibleto mix the order in which you study these chapters , but not to study the gameswithin each chapter out of order, since the examples build upon each other incomplexity. I suggest that...

This book takes a closer look at the Classic mistakes by amateur playersinclude: 1. Moving a piece too often in the opening. This is one of themainstays which we think relates at least partly to the desire to createsomething in the opening, when we would...

The idea behind this book is for you to'play' as in a real game, and it is my job to ensure you have a pleasant timewhile training. I suggest you take at least an hour and ahalf for eachgame and as your coach I will indicate when to guess the moves...

The purpose of this series is to introduce the reader to advanced training concepts, using the same methods of presentation and instruction that were taught to great players by famous trainers that they have worked with. The series will commence with the...