The Center for Book Arts, a small non-profit organization that fosters the art of book-making, is celebrating books that act like games, and vice versa, at their 28 W. 27th St. headquarters tomorrow evening. One of the CBA’s summer exhibits is “Fun & Games (and Such…),” and as you might guess from the title, the curators have a pretty loose take on what qualifies as a game.

Fuzzy definition notwithstanding, it looks like tomorrow’s Gaming Night, which kicks off at 6:30 p.m., is a worthwhile way to spend your evening (and the $10 admission fee).

Former Brooklynite Sally Tosti will talk about the construction of her Coney Island puzzle box, pictured above. As the folks at Make magazine would say, it’s a good candidate for a DIY “remake.”

Also, artist Barbara Rosenthal will play her decades-old You & I Card Game with the audience. I first came across You & I while I was researching games’ narrative theory in college. You & I is a word game in a non-traditional sense, essentially treating language itself as a game with a set of unspoken rules you make up as you go along. Before I get too hippy-dippy and the word “game” loses its last shred of meaning, suffice it to say that You & I is worth checking out, and playing it with the creator is probably a good introduction.

A discussion of game theory, a presentation from Purgatory Pie Press, and a couple of live performances round out the night.

(As a side note, after poking through the CBA website, it seems the overwhelming majority of their patrons are women. I guess that makes sense, as I can see that book-making could fall under the “crafty type” umbrella, but still, I’m surprised. I would have figured it as a gender-neutral hobby.)