A Few 19th-Century Parlor Games to Amuse You While You’re Stuck at Home 🔗 🪀 ♟ 🧩 🎲 🏡 🦠

I started thinking about what people used to do while cooped up before they could watch television or play video games or attend Zoom meetings (besides read, of course), and soon found myself looking through 19th-century parlor game manuals. (Still, obviously, through my screen.) They were fun enough to explore that I thought I’d excerpt them here, but you should feel free to go through them more thoroughly yourself, as they’re mostly in the public domain and many are available online.

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