David Parlett (games etc)

Wer spielt, hat schon gewonnen*

I specialise in indoor games (mainly card games, board games and word games) as a freelance inventor, writer and consultant. Sometimes I even get round to playing them.

My best-known board game is Hare & Tortoise. It has sold over two million copies since 1974 and is still published in Germany (as Hase und Igel).

My books include the Penguin Book of Card Games, Teach Yourself Card Games, the Oxford History of Card Games, and the Oxford History of Board Games.

As a member of the International Playing-Card Society and the Board Game Studies Association I give talks and run workshops on the history, theory and appreciation of games, am a consultant on games terminology to the Oxford English Dictionary and card game contributor to the Encyclopedia Britannica, and advise on the staging of games in period films and TV productions. I'm also a member of the Society of Authors and of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

This site details all my published books, games and film/TV credits and includes some games to play on-line. It also incorporates pages devoted to other of my interests. All can be reached from the site map (click globe, left).

* Whoever plays has already won

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