Introduction:

Players are primarily interested in the game mechanism (how

it plays), or the level of interaction with other players. Whereas
historians focus on the oldest games, players pay attention to the
newest of games. Many players are also interested in the theme and
length of play, and some are swayed by the graphics. Serious
players, more attuned to the game market, also often want to know
the manufacturer, the game’s author, and level of strategy.

LESSON PROPER
We all know that indoor games are a variety of structured forms of
play or competitive physical activity, typically carried out
either in the home or in constructed indoor. And also games are
divided into categories, it can be broken into three subcategories;
pencil and paper games, games using common household objects, and
classic or proprietary games that have a specific set of materials,
be they unique or standard game pieces that are being played by
many of us. These games referred as Table games that are usually
present in each country in this world. The examples of Indoor Table
Games are the following:

Dice games
These are games that use or incorporate one or more dice as
their sole or central component, usually as a random device. Dice
game provides problem-solving skill and thinking skill to the
children and also adults.
Examples of Dice Games:
• Roll for It – this dice game can be enjoyed by two to four
players. Although the recommended age is 8 and up, many
reviewers say that younger kids can learn to play it, too. The
game comes with four sets of six miniature, colored dice, as
well as 30 cards.

• Yahtzee- is a good example of dice game which can be played by

two or more people, and it’s best for kids ages 8 and up,
though adults will want to get in on the action, too.
There are 13 rounds in the game, and the goal is to rack up
the highest number of points by rolling certain combinations
with the dice. If you roll five of the same number, you’ve
rolled a Yahtzee!
 BOARD GAMES
Usually, when we say board game there is a central board
where a player's position can be tracked in relation to other
players. Players also have tokens or avatars that represent the
player. For example, the chess table and the pieces in Chess,
racing car or the hat tokens in Monopoly, and tokens used to
represent a player's position in Snakes and Ladders.

The Main Types of Board Games

▪ War games, the main purpose is to defeat or destroy your
opponent. Examples include, chess, checkers, and Go.
▪ Race games involve a number of players attempting to reach
a goal or destination first. Snakes and
Ladders, Monopoly, Scrabble, Pictionary are all race games.
▪ Alignment games are board games that require players
to place their pieces on a game board to reach a particular
configuration. In contrast to race games, alignment games
require the player to strategically position pieces on a
board rather than position pieces across a board to reach a
destination.
Board games usually have specific rules, for instance, limit the
number of players that a game can have, the number of spaces on
a board, the number of possible moves, and the limits of what
can be done in a particular move.
Games of skill, in contrast to board games, generally don't have
the same limits imposed on players. The number of moves and
positions in games of skill are more open-ended and can be
endless.
Most board games use dice and/or playing cards that contain
information that affects the outcome of the game. For example,
Dice in a board game generally relates to the movement of the
tokens on the board.
Virtually all board games are turn-based. Children's games,
particularly for young children, are based on luck, and also on
how they strategized in a single game.
Mostly board games are used for educational purposes in order
for the learners to build or to help in thinking skills. Games
for older children have decisions built into the games, which
affect the outcome of games. For instance, using a combination
of letters to create a particular word in scrabble.
Board games have the important aspect that they are social in
nature because they require players to interact meaningfully
with other players.
As we can see, board games have a particular set of criteria
that separate them from other forms of games. The key component
of a classic board game is that it is fun and that it teaches
important early learning skills.

CARD GAME
CARD GAME is any game using playing cards as the primary
device with which the game is played, be they traditional or
game-specific.
Countless card games exist, including families of related
games like poker, UNO, DOS, and tong-its. A small number of card
games played with traditional decks have formally standardized
rules, but most are folk games whose rules vary by region, culture,
and person.
A card game is played with a deck or pack of playing
cards that are identical in size and shape. Each card has two
sides, the face, and the back.
Normally the backs of the cards are indistinguishable. The
faces of the cards may all be unique, or there can be duplicates.
The composition of a deck is known to each player. In some cases,
several decks are shuffled together to form a single pack or shoe.

History of Card Game

Playing cards first appeared in Europe in the last quarter of
the 14th century. The earliest European references speak of a
Saracen or Moorish game called naib, and in fact, an almost
complete Mamluk Egyptian deck of 52 cards in a distinct oriental
design has survived from around the same time, with the four
suits swords, polo sticks, cups, and coins, and the
ranks king, governor, second governor, and ten to one.
The 1430s in Italy saw the invention of the tarot deck a full
Latin-suited deck augmented by suitless cards with painted motifs
that played a special role as trumps. Tarot card games
are still played with (subsets of) these decks in parts of Central
Europe.

A full tarot deck contains 14 cards in each suit; low cards

labeled 1–10, and court
 cards valet (jack), chevalier (cavalier/knight), dame (queen),
and roi (king), plus the fool or excuse card, and 21 trump cards.
In the 18th century, the card images of the traditional Italian
tarot decks became popular in carto mancy, and evolved into
"esoteric" decks used primarily for the purpose; today most tarot
decks sold in North America are the occult type and are closely
associated with fortune-telling. In Europe, "playing tarot" decks
remain popular for games and have evolved since the 18th century
to use regional suits (spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs in
France; leaves, hearts, bells, and acorns in Germany) as well as
other familiar aspects of the English-pattern pack such as corner
card indices and "stamped" card symbols for non-court cards. Decks
differ regionally based on the number of cards needed to play the
games; the French tarot consists of the "full" 78 cards, while
Germanic, Spanish, and Italian Tarot variants remove certain
values (usually low suited cards) from the deck, creating a deck
with as few as 32 cards.

Types of Card Games

▪ Trick-taking games
The object of a trick-taking game is based on the play of
multiple rounds, or tricks, in each of which each player plays a
single card from their hand, and based on the values of played
cards one player wins or "takes" the trick. The specific object
varies with each game and can include taking as many tricks as
possible, taking as many scoring cards within the tricks won as
possible, taking a few tricks (or as few penalty cards) as
possible, taking a particular trick in the hand, or taking an exact
number of tricks.
Example of Trick Taking Games:

• Whist • Spades
• Piquet (No Trumps) • Hearts
• Euchre (Trumps) • Oh Hell! (Exact Bidding)
• Five hundred (Euchre Group) • Contract Bridge (Boston
• L' Hombre Group)
• Bourre
 Matching games
The object of matching (or sometimes "melding") game is to
acquire a particular group of matching cards before an opponent
can do so. In Rummy, this is done through drawing and
discarding, and the groups are called melds. Mahjong is a very
similar game played with tiles instead of cards.
In the Philippines a good example of a matching game is
the Pares-pares- it is also called Ungoy-unggoyan or Matching
Memory. It’s a game played at least one- four-player.

Shedding games
In a Shedding game, players start with a hand of cards, and
the object of the game is to be the first player to discard all
cards from one's hand. Common shedding games include Crazy
Eights (commercialized by Mattel as Uno) and Daihinmin. Some
matching-type games are also shedding-type games; some variants
of Rummy such as Phase 10, Rummikub, the bluffing game I Doubt
It, and the children's game Old Maid, fall into both
categories.
Example of Shedding games in the Philippines:
▪ Pusoy –Dos
• Filipino Poker
• Shedding game
• It is more on card combination
• Played by four persons
▪ Tong-its
• Associated to an American card game tonk.
• Gained popularity in 1990’s in Luzon.
• Three player rummy type of game.

Catch and collect games

The object of an accumulating game is to acquire all cards in
the deck. Examples include most War type games, and games
involving slapping a discard pile such as Slapjack. Egyptian Rat
screw has both of these features. There are children who love lots
this type of card game because this game is more exciting.
 Monopoly Deal
This is all about collecting properties and stealing from
your opponents. Use action cards to demand a money, gift, change
rent and swap cards.

Fishing games
In fishing games, cards from the hand are played against
cards in a layout on the table, capturing table cards if they
match. Fishing games are popular in many nations, including
China, where there are many diverse fishing games. Scopa is
considered one of the national card games of Italy. Casino is
the only fishing game to be widely played in English-speaking
countries
In fishing games each player has a hand of cards and there is
a layout of face up cards on the table. Each player in turn plays
a card. If it matches a card or cards in the layout, the played
card and the matched cards are captured and placed face down in
front of the player. If the card played does not match it is added
to the layout.

Comparing games
Comparing games involve comparing the value of cards in every
player’s hand to see who has the cards with the most value. Common
examples are poker and blackjack. It is also known as "vying" or
"showdown" games. The most popular comparing card game in the
Philippines is the Lucky Nine.

Luck 9- is an exciting card game similar to Baccarat commonly

played at home. This game is popular in the Philippines
• To win in a Lucky 9 game, the player's hand must out-value the
banker's hand. To do this, a player must draw a hand that
totals 9, or as nearest to 9 as possible, just like in
Baccarat.
• When the total of a hand exceeds 9, the value is adjusted by
subtracting 10 from the total.
• For example, if a player draws an eight of spades and a seven
of hearts, his hand value becomes five (8 + 7 – 10 = 5).
• Tens and face cards (jacks, queens and kings) are worth zero,
aces are worth one, and all other cards are worth their face
value.
 Solitaire (Patience) games
Solitaire games are designed to be played by one player. Most
games begin with a specific layout of cards, called a tableau, and
the object is then either to construct a more elaborate final
layout, or to clear the tableau and/or the draw pile or stock by
moving all cards to one or more "discard" or "foundation" piles.

Multi-genre games
Many card games borrow elements from more than one type. The
most common combination is matching and shedding, as in some
variants of Rummy, Old Maid, and Go Fish. However, many multi-
genre games involve different stages of play for each hand. The
most common multi-stage combination is a "trick-and-meld" game,
such as Pinochle or Belote. Other multi-stage, multi-genre games
include Poke, Gleek, Skitgubbe, and Tichu. The good example of
these game are Tong-its and Pusoy-Dos it because in playing this
games it involves the shedding, comparing and also used in
gambling games.

Collectible card games (CCGs)

Collectible card games (CCG) are proprietary playing card
games. CCGs are games of strategy between two players though
multiplayer exists too. Both have their own personally built deck
constructed from a very large pool of individually unique cards in
the commercial market. These game is very exciting for children
and also for adults because it is more challenging to play.The
cards have different effects, costs, and art. Obtaining the
different cards makes the game a collectible and cards are sold or
traded on the secondary market. Magic: The Gathering and Yu-Gi-
Oh! are well-known collectible card games and also in the
Philippines we have the Teks and Pogs.

Casino or gambling card games

These games revolve around wagers of money. Though virtually
any game in which there are winning and losing outcomes can be
wagered on, these games are specifically designed to make the
betting process a strategic part of the game. Some of these games
involve players betting against each other, such as poker, while
in others, like blackjack, players wager against the house. Today,
there are many online card games or any games that is associated
with gambling that are usually played by the others. We all know
that, playing online games is a trend now. You could not find
people that do not play the online games. The one thing we know
that is playing online games will bring eye stress to the players
that is it.

Poker games
Poker is a family of gambling games in which players bet into
a pool, called the pot, the value of which changes as the game
progresses that the value of the hand they carry will beat all
others according to the ranking system. Variants largely differ on
how cards are dealt and the methods by which players can improve
a hand. For many reasons, including its age and its popularity
among Western militaries, it is one of the most universally known
card games in existence. These game also is common in funeral
occasion.

Other card games

There are games that are develop or produce from time to time.
Many other card games have been designed and published on a
commercial or amateur basis. In some cases, the game uses the
standard 52-card deck, but the object is unique. In Eleusis, for
example, players play single cards, and are told whether the play
was legal or illegal, in an attempt to discover the underlying
rules made up by the dealer.
Most of these games however typically use a specially made
deck of cards designed specifically for the game (or variations of
it). The decks are thus usually proprietary, but may be created by
the game's players. Uno, Phase 10, Set, and 1000 Blank White
Cards are popular dedicated-deck card games; 1000 Blank White
Cards is unique in that the cards for the game are designed by the
players of the game while playing it; there is no commercially
available deck advertised as such.

Simulation card games

A deck of either customized dedicated cards or a standard
deck of playing cards with assigned meanings is used to simulate
the actions of another activity, for example card football.
 Fictional card games
Many games, including card games, are fabricated by science
fiction authors and screenwriters to distance a culture depicted
in the story from present-day Western culture. They are commonly
used as filler to depict background activities in an atmosphere
like a bar or rec room, but sometimes the drama revolves around
the play of the game. Some of these games become real card games
as the holder of the intellectual property develops and markets a
suitable deck and rule set for the game, while others, such as
"Exploding Snap" from the Harry Potter franchise, lack sufficient
descriptions of rules, or depend on cards or other hardware that
are infeasible or physically impossible.

WORD GAMES
Word games (also called word game puzzles or word
search games) are spoken or board games often designed to test
ability with language or to explore its properties in the selected
game. These game also is generally used as a source of
entertainment and also used in educational purposes because it
helps the learners to think and have a good problem-solving. Young
children can enjoy playing games such word factory, while naturally
developing important language skills like spelling. Researchers
have found that adults who regularly solved crossword puzzles,
which require familiarity with a larger vocabulary, had better
brain function later in life.
Popular word-based game shows have been a part of television
and radio throughout broadcast history, including Spelling
Bee (the first televised game show) and Wheel of Fortune (the
longest-running syndicated game show in the United States).

Letter arrangement games

In a letter arrangement game, the goal is to form words out
of given letters. These games generally test vocabulary skills as
well as lateral thinking skills. Some examples of letter
arrangement games include Scrabble, Upwards, Banana
grams, Countdown, and Paperback.

PAPER AND PENCIL GAMES

CROSSWORD PUZZLES
In a paper and pencil game, players write their own words,
often under specific constraints. For example,
a crossword requires players to use clues to fill out a grid,
with words intersecting at specific letters. Other examples of
paper and pencil games include Hangman, Scattergories, boggle,
and word searches.

SEMANTIC GAMES
Semantic games focus on the semantics of words, utilizing
their meanings and the shared knowledge of players as a
mechanic. Mad Libs, Blankety Blank, and Codenames are all
semantic games.

DEXTERITY GAMES
In the 19th century, adults and children have fascinated in
this game. The dexterity games is also called as skill games, hand-
held, and palm puzzle games. The essential hand-eye challenge of
rolling a ball into a hole or tilting a capsule through a maze has
proved among the most delightful, maddening, and enduring
diversions of the modern age, despite — or perhaps because of —
its sheer simplicity.
While the first rolling-ball puzzles were available in
England as early as the 1840s, it was Charles M. Crandall’s Pigs
in Clover, introduced in 1889, that captured the enthusiasm of the
American public. Senators took the game into the Senate Chambers
during debates, and US President Benjamin Harrison is said to have
played the game in the White House instead of tending to politics.
By 1890, orders for Pigs in Clover were in excess of 8,000 a day.
Beginning in 1891, the London-based firm of R. Journet and
Company designed more than one hundred innovative glass-top
dexterity games. “A good puzzle should be simple in idea,” Journet
once said. ”It should explain itself without any long instructions
and it should look attractive.”
The first British Industries Fair in 1918 produced orders for large
numbers of these puzzles (especially from the United States) and
marked the real start of Journet’s puzzle business, which would
continue well into the twentieth century. In those early years,
dexterity games gained an international following and were also
being produced in great numbers in France, Germany and Japan.
 TILE LAYING GAMES

Tile-laying games are great for game evangelists: many have

simple rules so are family, new gamer and child friendly. We all
know the concept from Dominoes, and it’s amazing how little you
have to add to that simple premise to make a truly great game.

Tile games also have very strong curb appeal, looking great
on the table and really catching the eye – and imagination – of
anyone walking past: much like a jigsaw can do, but with much more
game appeal across the age and ability ranges.

• Mahjong is a tile-based game. It is commonly played by four

players. It is also a game of skill, strategy, and
calculation, and it involves a degree of chance.
• Tsuro (2004)
2-8 Players, 15 Minutes
Tsuro ticks so many ‘perfect filler game’ boxes: lovely
production, simple gameplay you can teach in a couple of minutes
(and to people as young as six or so), a short play time, easy
setup, easily available and only about £20 – and can take up to
eight players.
• Medina (2001) 2-4 players, 60-90 minutes
Medina is a gorgeous board game where the ‘tiles’ are
actually wooden blocks representing buildings, merchants,
rooftops and city walls. It’s an abstract game where players
take it in turns to place a couple of pieces onto the board and
later claim buildings to earn points.
• Take it Easy (1983) 1-8 players, 20-30 minutes
This game of laying hexagonal tiles has a neat twist: a bit
like bingo, one player draws a tile and everyone has to play the
exact same tile from their set, but they can lay it anywhere
inside their 19-tile grid
• Isle of Skye (2015) 2-5 players, 60 minutes
In the Isle of Skye each player is making their own little
Isle by buying tiles in an effort to score the most points. But
different players will be going for different things (boats,
sheep, whiskey, mountains etc) – and each turn you’ll draw three
random tiles and price each one.
 • Galaxy Trucker (2004) 2-4 players, 60-90 minutes
If you like a tongue-in-cheek sci-fi theme and find the usual
tile-laying experience a little pedestrian, how would you like
to frantically build a space ship out of tiles in real-time –
complete with guns, engines, crew, and storage space? And then
fly it through alien-infested asteroid fields and watch as half
(and often more) of it is smashed to bits or vaporized on the
way to your destination? Then Galaxy Trucker is the game for
you.
• Alhambra (2003) 2-6 players, 60 minutes
While most definitely a tile-laying game, Alhambra is the
closest game on the list to
being disqualified for having too much else going on. You
have to collect sets of cards (which count as currency) to buy the
tiles you want from a display, but the meat of the game is most
definitely on the tiles: you’re trying to get the highest number
of tiles in any given color to get points in the three scoring
rounds, while also placing them in such a way that the walls match
to both give you more points and not restrict you too much as you
build.