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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0721.00028] As is already clear from the title, this paper is about combinatorial games in the Conway, Guy, Berlekamp, Sprague-Grundy tradition, as opposed to the von Neumann and Morgenstern, Shapley and Nash theory of games and economic behavior. Several variants of Nim, Sylver coinage, and dots and boxes are described, and the author gives analyses or tables of known ``good'' moves for small cases of each, often after first challenging the reader with questions about specific cases. In a fex cases some new analyses are presented; in more cases, analysis from other sources, such as \textit{J. H. Conway's} ``On numbers and games'' (1976; Zbl 0334.00004), and ``Winning ways for your mathematical plays'' (1982; Zbl 0485.00025) by \textit{E. R. Berlekamp, J. H. Conway} and \textit{R. K. Guy} is cited or adapted. The paper is directed toward readers who are relative beginners rather than to researchers in the field.