Books
Books: we wrote so many! Lots of handbooks, of course, but also essays, riddles/puzzles collections, mental challenges, mathematical wanderings, explorations of the gambling world... and even a smidge of narrative.Il grande libro del Poker is still our best-seller, though.Here studiogiochi’s books catalogue, those we wrote ourselves, and those written in collaborations with some of our playing partners.
100 Poker
2018100 Poker, the new book on poker by Dario De Toffoli, is on the shelves. A handbook with (almost) all poker variants, strategies and hints to have fun and win.
Esercizi per tenere in forma la mente – vol. 2
2018Hundreds of games designed to stimulate the right brain hemisphere, which performs intuition tasks.
Brainquiz (Hachette)
2018More than 1000 exercises and intelligence tests, general knowledge, logic and memory.
Numeri (Hachette)
2018Mental calculation methods, curiosities, enigmas and anecdotes about the wonderful world of numbers.
Dalla tartaruga di Achille al Sudoku
2018A wide selection of original and interesting games of different difficulty levels. Classic Quiz, Sudoku, Kakuro, Dezaku, Master Mind and many more…
The Big Book Of Poker
2018The Big Book of Poker, the new book by Dario De Toffoli, is the best way to fall in love with this game and move from being a regular loser to a confident winner. Whether poker novice or poker pro, this is the book for all your poker needs!
Eravamo 5 amici al bar – Ero un leoncino di Mompracem
201738 riddles and 76 enigmatic stories to keep your mind trained. Analyze all the clues to find out the solutions!
Cibo per la mente
2017Riddles, puzzles and many other games for the mind, with 6 different difficulty levels and all the solutions at the end of the book.
Esercizi per tenere in forma la mente – vol. 1
2017The 12th book of the book series “Sfide e giochi matematici” is made by studiogiochi. Hundreds of logic games and puzzle with the numbers for smart entertainment!
Numeri. Divagazioni, calcoli, giochi
2017Presentation by Furio Honsell. Digressions, calculations, games: the world of numbers seen through the playful eyes of the authors.
Allena la tua mente
2013Test, visual games, puzzles, logical questions, anagrams, calculations, memory exercises. 10 minutes every day to become smarter.
Casin degli spiriti
2013A thriller in which literary creativity merges with historical and environmental events, described in all their details.
Giochiamo a Burraco
2013The new book by Dario De Toffoli “Giochiamo a Burraco”, published by Sperling&Kupfer in the collection Sperling Tips, is available online in its only e-book version!
Blackjack: A Champion’s Guide
2013All the secrets of Blackjack: rules, math, strategies to master one of the most famous card games of the world.
Superpoker
2012The “final” book about the most favourite card game in the world, that offers a comprehensive training touching all the topics of today’s poker, from the “range” to “body language”, the “multi-level thinking” to the protocol of the tournaments.
Il grande libro del Blackjack
2011All the secrets of Blackjack: rules, math, strategies to master one of the most famous card games of the world. Then Roulette, Craps, Baccarà, Trente et quarante… the green table is waiting for you!
A scuola di Poker
2010After the great success of the books “Il grande libro del Poker” by Dario de Toffoli and “Giocare e vincere a poker online” by Max Pescatori and Dario De Toffoli, Sperling & Kupfer and Gioco Digitale present this DVD+book: a fast and fun to watch/read guide to enter into the world of Poker.
Leo Colovini on Twixt
2010100 famous game authors write about 100 famous games. Among the italians, besides Leo Colovini, there are Andrea Angiolino, Alessio Cavatore and Emiliano Sciarra. Colovini writes about Twixt, the beloved “creature” of Alex Randolph.
1001 Giochi per tutti
2009A new version of “1001 Giochi per tutti”: Logical games, numerical games, linguistic games, schemes… The most complete gym for your brain.
Il grande libro degli scacchi
2009This book was written only thanks to a passionate and enthusiastic tension. Different from any other book about chess, it attracts whoever takes it in his hands, offering the first technical instruments to go over the occasional player’s level.
Giocare e vincere a poker online
2009The good thing about Texas Hold’Em online is that in a few minutes you can start to play, but in order to win you need a combination of strategy, talent, technique and luck. This book reveals the secrets of the world champion Max Pescatori.
Enciclopedia dei giochi
2009The most important work about games ever written in Italy. The “Summa” of knowledge by Giampaolo Dossena, unmistakable, irreverent, provocative writer. Dario De Toffoli, commissioned by the same Dossena, worked on the copy editing and updating of it.
Numeri
2008Introduction by Stefano Bartezzaghi. Digressions, calculations, games: the world of numbers seen through the playful eyes of the authors.
Il grande gioco del Poker
2008It has been presented as four little guidebooks for the weekly newspaper Panorama.
Il grande libro del Backgammon
2008With sections by Carlo Melzi and support and advices by Chiva Tafazzoli. The history, the rules, the technique, what’s new. A complete book about Backgammon and its world.
1001 Giochi per tutti
2008Logical games, numerical games, linguistic games, schemes… The most complete gym for your brain.
Brainquiz
2008Put your intelligence, logic, language, culture and memory to test: more than 1.000 exercises to train your brain.
KAFKA
2007A great number of schemes of the new brainteaser Kafka: to solve them you just need a few rules, no calculation, but some logic skill and patience. There are also many other kinds of brainteasers.
Cibo per la mente III
2007Brainteasers of all kinds, words and literary games. This third volume of the series is completely dedicated to the world of words.
Il grande libro del Poker
2007Texas Hold’em and all the rest. The rules, the good manners, the techniques, the mathematics, the history, the philosophy and the culture of Poker.
Sfida al quadrato
2006Besides sudoku, many other brainteasers for exciting challenges for one or two players.
Cibo per la mente II
2005From the “Turtle of Achilles” to the “Sudoku”. Again the recreational mathematics originally reinterpreted to improve your logic skills and have fun at the same time.
Cibo per la mente I
2004Here’s how to keep your brain in good shape by playing. You can test and improve your logic skills, through an original interpretation of the “recreational mathematics”.
Il giocatore consapevole
2004The Casino games, the gambling, the playing with money. History, rules, mathematics and everything behind the games that involve the use of money.
Giochi per un anno. Calendario ludico 2003
2002It’s the 2003 Calendar realized for Unicopli. Each page contains different games to be solved (words, logic, classic games). There are also sections that present board games or books about games.
I giochi nel cassetto
2002It is a guide for aspirant game authors. It includes an essay about the meaning of the game by Alex Randolph.
Giocare e vincere a Poker
2002The complete rules and strategies. It’s the first italian book about modern poker: many italian players, some of them already champions, started out by reading these pages.
Backgammon, tutte le regole del gioco
2002A new edition about Backgammon, with more details, by the same author. It also contains some basic technique elements.
Giocare con le parole
2000The introduction to the classic puzzles for schools, supported by the Ministry of Public Education.
Eravamo 5 amici al bar…
2000Brainteasers to keep your brain in good shape. Logical schemes with apparently not enough information … but the solution is just around the corner.
Dama
2000The international, the italian … and many other versions of draughts. The rules for all the different ways of playing the game, some of them actually more interesting than our italian version.
Scala quaranta, pinnacolo e dintorni
2000With a historical note by Sebastiano Izzo. The complete encoding of the card game “Pinnacolo” (Pinnacle), together with “Scala quaranta” and “Ramino” (Rummy).
Nel mondo dei cruciverba
2000Details, techniques, digressions about the crossword puzzle, the most popular game in the world. Many special games to be solved are included.
Scacchi
1999The complete rules, explained in a very simple way, to play chess. It also contains the rules for japanese chess (Shogi) and chinese chess (Xing – Qi).
Paroliere®
1999Look for the hidden words! 47 games to be played. An interesting and easy game, presented through classic schemes, but also in very peculiar ways.
Ero un Leoncino di Mompracem…
1999Some mysterious tales with logical, numerical, deductive problems, with a narrator that talks to the reader in first person.
Backgammon
1999The complete rules about the game and some basic technique elements. Drawn on “Giocare a Backgammon”, by the same author.