Tangram sets, first brought from China by New England sailors in the 1820s

Pigs in Clover, a maze of concentric circles, first marketed in the 1880s, which the player tilted in order to bring marbles into a central pen

The Fifteen Puzzle, also called the “Boss puzzle” and the “Gem puzzle,” which first became popular around 1880. It was a shallow square box containing blocks, numbered 1 to 15. Like later forms of the “sliding puzzle,” the player had to rearrange the numbered blocks by sliding them around into a set order. The set was usually sold arranged so that all the numbers were in order except for the last two, 14 and 15, which were reversed.

Crossword puzzles

Euchre

Whist

Poker

Bridge

Foot races on indoor tracks that lasted six days nonstop, the winner being the “pedestrian” who covered the most miles during that time

Massed male choirs whose performances consisted of whistled arrangements of popular tunes in four-part harmony

Cart races on indoor tracks in which women sat and held the reins and their husbands pulled the carts

Circuses in which all the performers were chimpanzees or orangutans dressed like human clowns, aerialists, gymnasts, and animal trainers

Monopoly

Skee ball

Pin the tail on the donkey

Ping pong