History shows us preppers need small, lightweight games for emergency survival. Plus: chart comparing travel game sizes, number of players, and weights.

Travel Mexican Train for lefties, too! We redesigned our popular Double 12 Travel Domino Playing Cards with an adaptation for left-handed folks, legibility improvements, and more new features. Read on to learn more about the redesign: what, why, and how!

We explore the history of soldier pocket games - what games they played and what they looked like - and how it inspired modern pocket game designs. A pocket-sized game was kept in most soldier’s packs, good for morale. But games also became a part of the war effort, used for spycraft, training and communications. And the war evolved and innovated our favorite games.

New product announcement! Introducing a creative new classic game design from Walnut Studiolo for travel: folding leather backgammon board with all the accessories: dice, doubling cube, and pegs for secure play.

These are our simplified rules of play for learning backgammon, an ancient board game that still brings a lot of modern fun, particularly with the addition of the American doubling cube!

Brass and leather are two natural materials that go together beautifully, and even a little tarnish is nothing to worry about. If you wish, you can return brass to its original natural shine easily and quickly with a cleaning product like Brasso.

Free game rules and printable scoring "crib sheet" for the popular dice game Farkle / Ten Thousand (also known as Farkel, Hot Dice, 1000/5000/10000, Cosmic Wimpout, Greed, Squelch, Zilch, or Zonk)