Site Selection

Site Selection

*Board Games*	*Other Cultural Sites*
The Game of Trictrac	Museums
Other Table Games	Old Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Historical or Mathematical Games	Digital Libraries
Modern Board Games
Merchant Sites
Game Magazines
Clubs and Associations

The Game of Trictrac

The Trictrac Home Page: an English-language site by David Levy, featuring in particular an illustrated bibliography of the game of trictrac.

Soumille: the first and only software allowing Trictrac to be played on a computer. It was developed by David Levy and scrupulously follows the rules set out on this site for the game of Trictrac. The rules of the "false point" and "schools" are not applied, since the computer never makes mistakes in moves or in scoring points.

Article on Trictrac: so that the rules of the game would be accessible to as many people as possible, I actively contributed to writing the article on Trictrac for the cooperative encyclopedia Wikipedia. While not as detailed as this site regarding the rules, the Wikipedia page, written in a descriptive style, is sufficient to approach the game while respecting its essentials, and it also covers other points such as the history of the game, the etymology of its name, an annotated bibliography, etc.

Reasoned Dictionary of the Game of Trictrac: a very comprehensive site on the game of Trictrac

A Game of Trictrac: (1830) Translated by Corry Cropper, 2005. The English translation by Corry Cropper of Prosper Mérimée's work: La Partie de trictrac. This translation avoids terms specific to the game in order to make the text understandable to everyone. If you wish, you can find the vocabulary of the game contained in the original work on the Academy of Forgotten Games page: La Partie de trictrac.

Other Table Games

Chicago Point Backgammon Links : the reference site on Backgammon. This page includes a large number of links, and in particular one to... the pages on the game of Trictrac and Jacquet.

Backgammon Galore / variants : this major English-language site on Backgammon has the distinctive feature of presenting, on its "variants" page, numerous other table games (rules and links to other sites for further information). Among others, you can find there the game of Trictrac, Jacquet, and Tourne Case.

Historical or Mathematical Games

Medieval & Renaissance Games: an important English-language site on ancient games.

Pagat.com: " The Card Games web site ", an English-language site on card games from around the world. The homepage of the Académie des jeux oubliés is listed there.

Récréomath: this site from Quebec is devoted to recreational mathematics. It contains a bank of recreational problems and another of mathematical tools.

Modern Board Games

This general-interest site by François Haffner lists an impressive collection of board games. François Haffner is also a game designer.

Merchant Sites

Le Comptoir des jeux : "offers a range of games, both antique and contemporary, selected for their quality and aesthetic criteria, sourced from all over the world"

Game Magazines

Clubs and Associations

Jeuxstrategie : analyses and complete rules for numerous board games. Its strong point: the detailed illustrations of the various games.

Antiquities, Museums

Swiss Museum of Games : since 1987, the Swiss Museum of Games has presented, in the château of La Tour-de-Peiltz, a permanent exhibition as well as temporary exhibitions of games. The educational activities on offer, and much more besides, can be discovered by visiting the site.

French Museum of Playing Cards: located in Issy-les-Moulineaux, it is the only museum in France dedicated to playing cards, and one of only seven museums in the world devoted to this theme.

Old Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (Franco-American research association concerning the treasury of the French language)

ARTFL (Dictionaries of the Past) : a page on the site that opens directly onto a search tool for definitions of words contained in the old dictionaries of the Académie Française (1^st edition of 1694, 4^th of 1762, 5^th of 1798, 6^th of 1835 and 8^th of 1832-5), the Thresor de la langue française by Jean Nicot (1606), the Dictionnaire critique de la langue française by Jean-François Féraud (1787-1788), as well as the Dictionnaire de la langue française by Émile Littré (1872-1877). A wealth of information on the French language !

ARTFL (Encyclopédie by Diderot and d'Alembert) : a page on the French site ATILF, a participant in the ARTFL project, opening directly onto a search tool for words, names, and articles contained in the entirety of l'Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une Société de Gens de lettres (1751-1772)

Digital Libraries

Gallica is the digital library of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF). A search tool makes it possible to access documents and directly find the desired information.