A Gamut of Games is an innovative book of games written by Sid Sackson and first published in 1969. It contains rules for a large number of paper and pencil, card, and board games. Many of the games in the book had never before been published. It is considered by many hobbyist gamers to be an essential text for anyone interested in abstract strategy games, and a number of the rules were later expanded into full-fledged published board games. Some of the games which were later sold separately include Focus, Property and Origins of World War I; Robert Abbott expanded his game Crossings, published here, into the more-refined title Epaminondas. Many of the games covered in the book were creations of Sid Sackson himself, who was a prolific game designer. Book Sections The sections of the book and the games covered therein are as follows: In Search of Big and Little Games Blue and Gray, a board game by Henry Busch and Arthur Jaeger Hekaton, a card game originally published along with "Yankee Notion Cards" from the 19th century Le Truc, a revived French card game Mate, a card game by G. Capellen Plank, a serious revamp of the concepts in Tic-Tac-Toe Zetema, a Victorian card game similar to Bezique Game Inventors Are People Too Crossings, a board game by Robert Abbott; later turned into Epaminondas Cups, a mancala variant by Arthur and Wald Amberstone Knight Chase, a board game by Alex Randolph (inventor of games like TwixT) Lap, a complex progeny of Battleships by Lech Pijanowski Lines of Action, a board game by Claude Soucie Origins of World War I, a historical pencil-and-paper game by Jim Dunnigan which teaches players history Paks, a playing card game by Phil Laurence Skedoodle, a pencil-and-paper game by Father Daniel Three Musketeers, a board game by Haar Hoolim; notably, this game and the character in it was once used as the mascot for the Zillions of Games software product Those Protean Pieces of Pasteboard All of the games in this section use a standard pack of cards. All My Diamonds, an auctioning game by Sid Sackson Bowling Solitaire, a one-player game by Sid Sackson that simulates ten-pin bowling. Card Baseball, by Sid Sackson Color Gin, a two-handed modification of Hollywood Gin by Sid Sackson Osmosis, by Sid Sackson Patterns, by Sid Sackson Poke, a two-player multi-genre card game that combines strong elements of