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Floor Games is a book written in 1911 by H. G. Wells. It is a light-hearted, sometimes humorous discussion about the theory, purpose, and methodology of playing a variety of children's games with models, miniatures, and other props.
Floor Games is often characterized as a "companion book" to Wells's Little Wars , though as the text of the earlier book makes clear, it was conceived of as a self-standing volume that the author might eventually decide to follow with a text devoted purely to war games.
Little Wars is a set of rules for playing with toy soldiers, written by H. G. Wells in 1913. Its full title is Little Wars: a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books.
Little Wars included fairly simple rules for infantry, cavalry, and artillery in the form of a toy 4.7 inch naval gun that launched projectiles, usually small wooden dowels to knock down enemy soldiers. In addition to it being a war game, the book hints at several philosophical aspects of war.
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CONTENTS
EDITOR�S FOREWORD
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FLOOR GAMES
Illustrations
Section I - THE TOYS TO HAVE
Section II - THE GAME OF THE WONDERFUL ISLANDS
Section III - OF THE BUILDING OF CITIES
Section IV - FUNICULARS, MARBLE TOWERS, CASTLES AND WAR GAMES, BUT VERY LITTLE OF WAR GAMES
LITTLE WARS
List of Full-Page Illustrations
I - OF THE LEGENDARY PAST
II - THE BEGINNINGS OF MODERN LITTLE WARFARE
III - THE RULES
THE COUNTRY
THE MOVE
MOBILITY OF THE VARIOUS ARMS
HAND-TO-HAND FIGHTING AND CAPTURING
VARIETIES OF THE BATTLE-GAME
COMPOSITION OF FORCES
SIZE OF THE SOLDIERS
IV - THE BATTLE OF HOOK'S FARM
V - EXTENSIONS AND AMPLIFICATIONS OF LITTLE WAR
VI - ENDING WITH A SORT OF CHALLENGE
APPENDIX - LITTLE WARS AND KRIEGSPIEL
