Victorian games

Traditional parlour games played during Christmas during Victorian times. Here's 21 Victorian parlour games to try at this home this Christmas.

Try out Victorian Christmas games in your classroom.

Victorian parlor games are fun games for groups and parties. Lists game descriptons and rules.

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above: Little Red Riding Hood, 1890. I love the contrast of the simple and beautiful game board over the detailed picture. above: the game of railway promoting character Phoebe Snow, 1909. above: the word 'dude' obviously used to have a more interesting connotation. His slovenly friend looks strangely contemporary: she might be Emily the Strange's grandmother. All from The Game of Don'ts and Old Maid, 1905. Above: the Manhattan Post Office game, 1897. Above: a card from Logomachy, or War of…

game, a universal form of recreation generally including any activity engaged in for diversion or amusement and often establishing a situation that involves a contest or rivalry. Card games are the games most commonly played by adults. Children’s games include a wide variety of amusements and pastimes primarily for children.

what toys and games did Victorian children play with? Well it all depended on whether they were rich or poor. Rich children would play with clockwork train sets or beautiful china dolls

Victorian toys & games (reproduction) for children & adults: ball games, game of graces, cup and ball, bilbo catcher, chess, dolls, dominos, jacks, marbles, ninepins, playing cards, quoits, rolling hoop toy, tops, yo-yos, parlor games (parlour games), etc.