JOLI QUENTIN KANSIL

The inventor of some 36 games, Joli Quentin Kansil, also known as Prince Joli Kansil, has lived in Hawaii 36 years and has also been a teacher, professor, crossword puzzle constructor, and writer. A champion in Backgammon in its early days of resurgence in the 1970s, JQK is the author of two books on the game and was the Backgammon columnist for GAMES Magazine for many years. He is the Editor of The Official Rules of Card Games, currently published by the U. S. Playing Card Company (338 pages).

It is rare for a game inventor to also be a very proficient game player, but Joli Quentin Kansil has achieved this distinction, being an expert in Bridge, Backgammon, Bridgette, Scrabble, and many other games. The late great games expert Oswald Jacoby once called JQK "The best combination game inventor/game player in the world."

A world traveler, JQK has visited over 200 countries, including such faraway places as Antarctica, Mongolia, Greenland, and Pitcairn Island. He has been in every country of the Western Hemisphere, and has made some 70 trips to Asia. His daughter Melanie Quintana Kansil is a graduate of Harvard University, and his son Zane Quincy Kansil is in the fourth grade.