David Parlett is a games scholar who has studied both card games and board games. His published works include many popular books on games and the authoritative volumes "Oxford Guide to Card Games" and "Oxford History of Board Games", both now out of print.
Parlett has also invented a number of board games, the most successful of which is Hare and Tortoise (1974). The German edition was awarded Spiel des Jahres (game of the year) in 1979. David Parlett specialise in indoor games (board games, card games, word games, etc) as a freelance inventor, writer and consultant. He give talks and run workshops on the history, theory and appreciation of games, as a consultant on games terminology to the Oxford English Dictionary and card game contributor to the Encyclopedia Britannica, and advise on the stagi