Books
Bell, R.C. Board and Table Games From Many Civilizations, revised ed. Dover Publications, 1979.
Botermans, Jack. The Book of Games: Strategy, Tactics & History. Sterling Publishing, 2008.
Brathwaite, Brenda, and Ian Schreiber. Challenges for Game Designers. Charles River Media, 2009.
Koster, Raph. A Theory of Fun for Game Design. Paraglyph Press, 2005.
Morehead, Albert H., Geoffrey Mott- Smith, and Philip D. Morehead.Hoyle's Rules of Games, third revised and updated ed. Signet, 2001.
Sackson, Sid. Card Games Around the World. Dover Publications, 1994.
Schell, Jesse. The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses. Morgan Kaufmann, 2008.
This is a list I found...will look at these too.
