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Board Games

June 15, 2020 | agudenburr
Family of four playing a board game.

Board games are a great way to socialize with others, challenge your problem solving skills, and pass the time. What is your favorite board game to play?

 

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International Games Day

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Get your game(s) on at International Games Day!  We’ll have a variety of board and card games on hand for you to sample, or feel free to bring your own to share. All ages are welcome, and family participation is encouraged. No registration is required.  Just drop in anytime during program hours and join in the fun!

Curious to see how popular International Games Day is?  Check out a map of participating libraries around the globe here.

Upcoming sessions

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Fun & Games

June 1, 2016 | SuzyQ
Under the boardwalk [videodisc] : the Monopoly story

Stories about the board game Monopoly and those who play it, ending with the Monopoly World Championship.

Game over [videodisc] : Kasparov and the machine

Explores Garry Kasparov's suggestion that IBM might have cheated for financial gain after he was roundly defeated by IBM's super-computer Deep Blue in a set of chess matches.

Wordplay [videodisc]

A journey into the world of Will Shortz, the crossword puzzle editor at The New York Times. Shortz has spent his entire lifetime studying, creating and editing puzzles, and has built a huge following along the way including Bill Clinton and Bob Dole.

Family Fun: Games and Activities

June 1, 2016 | obrienbc
Family fun book : more than 400 amazing, amusing, and all-around awesome activities for the entire family! by Joni Hilton
1001 more things to do with your kids by Caryl Waller Krueger
The games bible : over 300 games-- the rules, the gear, the strategies by Leigh Anderson

History of Toys and Games

May 31, 2015 | ms.amelia


Birth of the chess queen: a history by Marilyn Yalom — Everyone knows that the queen is the most powerful piece in chess, but few people know that the game existed for five hundred years without her. Not until the year 1000, two hundred years after Arab conquerors brought chess to southern Europe, did a chess queen appear on the board.Initially she was the weakest piece, not the formidable force she is today. How and why did this transformation take place? Examine the five-hundred-year period between the chess queens timid emergence and her elevation into the games mightiest piece.

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