Hear the phrase “parlor game” and you may conjure up a mental image of men and women in straight-laced, Victorian-era duds gathered around a fire in a stuffy, overly formal sitting room. You wouldn’t ...

Despite their prim and proper reputation, Victorians knew how to party. In 19th-century Great Britain and the United States, parlor games — group games played inside, and often in parlors — were ...

As a child, Ontario-born entrepreneur, Laura Robinson (no relation to me), loved playing parlor games. Harnessing her childhood passion, Robinson has forged an entrepreneurial career path inventing ...

We thought when our grandparents were talking about "parlor games," they were using code for "making out." Then comes along a book that explains it all. Parlor Games: Amusements and Entertainment for ...

Everyone is familiar with the ancestral guessing games wherein somebodyleaves the room, etc. But it is seldom that the world is favored by an account of such a game played by so illustrious persons as ...