The most prolific folklorist of games has been Paul G. Brewster. Over some 40 years, he conducted research and wrote more than fifty articles and monographs about games from the point of view of the folklorist. His publications have appeared in a variety of journals throughout the world and offer much information that is not available elsewhere. His article on collecting games offers some insight into his "modus operandi" and his rationale for the study of games.

Brewster's work on games is somewhat atypical within the field folklore. The customary approach for folklore researchers had been to work with traditional games of children, rather than adult games, and to work directly with children as informants, rather than to derive material from secondary sources. Brewster did both – he searched the literature and conducted interviews in the field. The following is a bibliography of many of the articles and monographs written by Brewster from 1939 until 1965. Those in the list that are highlighted have been scanned and are available for reading on this Website.

• 1939 "Game-Songs From Southern Indiana," Journal of American Folklore, 49, 243-262.
• 1943 "A Roman Game and Its Survival on Four Continents," Classical Philology, 38, 134-137.
• 1943 "Some Games From Other Lands." Southern Folklore Quarterly (Gainesville), 7, 109-117.
• 1943 "Some Notes on The Guessing-Game, 'How Many Horns Has The Buck?'" Bealoideas, 13, 40-79.
• 1943 "The Kitte arule bol Game of India," Southern Folklore Quarterly (Gainesville), 7, 149-152.
• 1944 "How Many Horns Has The Buck? Prolegomena to a Comparative Study," Volkskunde, 4, 361-393.
• 1944 "Some African Variants of Bucca, Bucca," Classical Journal, 39, 293-296.
• 1944 "Two Games From Africa," American Anthropologist, 2, 268-269.
• 1945 " 'Johnny On The Pony', A New York State Game," New York Folklore Quarterly, 1, 239-240.
• 1945 "Some Unusual Forms of Hopscotch," Southern Folklore Quarterly (Gainesville), 9, 229-2.31.
• 1947 "Games and Sports in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century English Literature," Western Folklore, 6, 143-156.
• 1948 "Forfeit Games From Greece and Czechoslovakia," Hoosier Folklore, 8, 76-83.
• 1949 "Some Hungarian Games," Southern Folklore Quarterly (Gainesville), 13, 175-179.
• 1949 "Some Traditional Games From Roumania," Journal of American Folklore, 62, 114-124.
• 1940 "Ten Games From Other Lands,"Western Folklore (Berkeley), 8, 146-151.
• 1950 "An Attempt At Identification of the Games Mentioned in Basile's Il Pentamerone," Folklore (London), 5-23.
• 1951 "A String Figure Series From Greece," Laographia, 101-12.5.
• 1951 "Four Games of Tag From India," Midwest Folklore, 1, 2.39-241.
• 1951 "Some Games From Southern Europe," Midwest Folklore, I 109- 112.
• 1952 "Ten Games From Europe," Journal of American Folklore, 55, 88-90.
• 1953 American Non-Singing Games, Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press.
• 1953 Children's Games and Rhymes, Frank C Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore, I no. 4 Durham: University Press.
• 1953 "Juegos Infantiles," Folklore Americas (Lima), 13(1), 3-15.
• 1953 "Some String Tricks From the US." Rivista de Entnogrofia (Naples), 7, 1-12.
• 1953 "Two Unusual String Figures from the US” Der Forschungsdiensi, Folge 6, Band I.
• 1954 "String Figures from the Midwestern US," Oesterreicliisclie Zeitschrift für Folkskunde, 8 (1-2!, 23-32.
• 1954 "Some Nigerian Games with Their Parallels and Analogues," Societe des Africanstes (Paris), 24, 25-48.
• 1955 "A Collection of Games From India, with Some Notes on Similar Games in Other Parts of the World" Zeischriit für Ethnologie (Braunschweig), 80, 88-102.
• 1955 "A Note On The Distribution of the Slovenian Game: Skarjice Brusiti,” Slavic Etlinogroph 8, 2S5-258.
• 1955 "Some Notes on the Slovenian Game: Volka." Bilien Insiiiuta Za Proucacanie Folklora, 3, 143-l49.
• 1955 "The Game of sahbi iddi zaiat, Moroccan form; Some Parallels and Analogues," Hesperis, 42 (1-2) 239-244.
• 1956 With J. Milojkovic-Djuric, "A Group of Jugoslav Games," Southern Folklore Quarterly, 20 (3) 183-191.
• 1956 "The Importance of the Collecting and Study of Games," Eastern Anthropologist (Lucknow), 10 (1) 5-12.
• 1957 With O. Hrabalova, "A Czechoslovak Cat's Cradle Series," Checkoslovakian Ethnography (Prahal, 5, 176-183.
• 1957 "Malornjalik and Related Three-in-a-row Games," Acta Ethnogrophica (Budapest), 6, 2:2,3-2:31.
• 1957 "Priority and Exemption in Children's Games: A Comparative Study," Folkskunde, 58, 21-:30.
• 1957 "Some Games From Czechoslovakia", Southern Folklore Quarterly (Gainesville), 21 (3), 16,5-174.
• 1957 With J. S, Patel "The Indian Game of Sagargote (Kooka) (Bombay)," Zeitschrift für Ethnologie (Braunschweig), 82 (2), 186-190.
• 1958 "Burski and Other Polish Games of Chance and Skill," Zeitschrift für Ethnologie (Braunschweig ), 83, 83-85.
• 1958 "The Earliest Known List of Games: Some Comments," Acta Orieritalia (Copenhagen), 23 (1-2). 33-42.
• 1958 "Long Breath and Talking Fire: Cultural Survivals in the Games of Chase," Eastern Anthropologist (Lucknow ), 12 (1), 41-46.
• 1958 With T. A. Seboek, Studies in Cheremis: Games. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press.
• 1958 "The Malayan Hantu Musang and Other Possession Games of Indonesia and Indochina." Oriens (Wiesbaden), 11 (1-2), 162- 176.
• 1959 Games and Sports in Shakespeare, Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia Academia Scientiarum Fennica.
• 1959 "Symbolism and Allegory in Card and Board Games," Southern Folklore Quarterly (Gainesville), 23 (3), 196-203.
• 1959 "Three Russian Games and Their Western and Other Parallels." Southern Folklore Quarterly (Gainesville), 23 (2),126-131.
• 1960 "A Sampling of Games From Turkey," East and West (Rome), 11(1), 15-20.
• 1960 "Some Kindred Games of the Far East," Geografica Helcetica (Bern), 15 (1), 33-38.
• 1960 "Treatise on Iranian Games," Acta Orientalia (Copenhagen), 25 (1-2), 15-28.
• 1961 "A Worldwide Carne and an Indian Legend," Eastern Anthropologist (Lucknow), 14 (2), 192-193.
• 1961 "The Egyptian Game Khazza Lawizza And Its Burmese Counterpart," Zeischriit für Ethnologie (Braunschweig). 85, 211-213.
• 1962 "Some Comments Regarding The Games Depicted on The Tomb of Mereuka," East and West (Rome), 13 (1), 27-31.
• 1963 "Egyptian Prototypes of Two Twentieth Century Games," Zeischriit für Ethnologie (Braunschweig), 88 (1), 98-99.
• 1963 "Games and Toys," Encyclopedia of World Art, 6, 2-11.
• 1963 With S. Hummel, Games of Tibetans, Helsinki: Suornalainen Tiedeakaternia Academia Scientiarum Fennioa.
• 1965 "The Cheremis Game Selcekteruj-Mudone and the Russian Game Scelcki Zeitschrift für Ethnologie (Braunschweig), 90 (2), 265- 267.