Posts Tagged ‘games’
Posted by Nicolae on August 1st, 2008 under Sport
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Basketball is a sport in which two teams of five players each try to score points on one other by throwing a ball through a hoop (the basket) under organized rules.
Since its invention in 1891, it has developed to become a truly international sport. Organized league play originated in the YMCA and [...]
Posted by Nicolae on July 12th, 2008 under Backgammon Guide, Rules, games
Tags: Automatic doubles, Backgame, backgammon, bar point, Basic Strategies, bear them off, beavers, Blitz, Crawford Rule, doubles, doubling cube, games, Holding Game, home board, inner board, Jacoby Rule, mid point, outer board, players, Priming Game, raccoons, Rules, Running Game, sample game, strategies •
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Backgammon is a simple game with deep strategic elements. It does not take long to learn to play, although obscure situations do arise which require careful interpretation of the rules. The playing time for each individual game is short, so it is often played in matches, for example the first to five [...]
Posted by Nicolae on July 7th, 2008 under Playing cards
Tags: deck, games, links, pack, playing cards, references, symbols, tricks, Unicode •
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A playing card is a typically hand-sized piece of heavy paper or thin plastic used for playing card games. A complete set of cards is a pack or deck. Playing cards are often used as props in magic tricks, as well as occult practices such as cartomancy, and a number of card games [...]
Posted by Nicolae on July 1st, 2008 under Draw poker, Poker
Tags: ad hoc, Anaconda, Badugi, California high/low split, California lowball, Double-draw, draw games, draw poker, Four-before, games, gardena jackpots, High/low with declare, home, jackpots, Jacks back, Jacks to open, Johnson, lowball, Pass the trash, players, poker variant, Q-Ball, Roll 'em out", Shotgun, Skinny Minnie, Spit in the ocean, standard five-card draw, Triple-draw, variants •
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Draw poker is any poker variant in which each player is dealt a complete hand before the first betting round, and then develops the hand for later rounds by replacing cards.
The descriptions below assume that you are familiar with the general game play of poker, and with hand values (both high and low [...]
Posted by Nicolae on June 30th, 2008 under Football, Football (Soccer), Rules, Sport
Tags: Australian, ball games, derivations, football, games, inventions, Irish, Mediæval, public school games, recreations, Rugby School rules, Rules, tabletop games, today, varieties, word •
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Use of the word “football” in English-speaking countries
The word “football“, when used in reference to a specific game can mean any one of those described above. Because of this, much friendly controversy has occurred over the term football, primarily because it is used in different ways in different parts of the English-speaking [...]