Pulling Strings by Blue Panther is an abstract game where you try to move five disks into your home positions from the middle of the board.
The original game comes with English alphabet and sign language disks for specifying rows and columns on the board. New expansion packs add 1) Roman numerals and 2) Greek letters [...]
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Grammaticus, by David Kinder of Alton College, is a word based card game available locally in Petersfield, Hampshire, UK.
It uses words on the cards, word types (noun, adjective) as the card suits, and plays something like rummy.
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One attempt to add more skill to the game of Poker, and work around U.S. laws that ban it, is DuplicatePoker.com .
Duplicate Poker, inspired by the idea of duplicate Bridge, requires you not only to play against your opponents at the same table, but to play better than other players playing in the same seat [...]
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Robyn Fleming writes about the evolution of gender and stereotype D&D in the latest Cerise Magazine. She looks at what’s up with 4e D&D’s online character creation and illustrations.
According to Robyn, things are looking up, but there’s still a ways to go.
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Paris Hilton, about whom their is very little to say other than that people say many things about her and that she is heir to a large fortune, is spending more time indoors playing Monopoly.
Apparently dating (rock star Benji Madden) has made her less of a socialite and more domestic. Finally.
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The families of American Idol contestants are forbidden to talk to the media until the season ends. So how do they pass the time?
They go to the American Idol Ministry, set up by Leesa Bellesi, a pastor’s wife in a Lake Forest backyard. There they cheer, give support, eat barbecues and play Ping Pong and [...]
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On a flight from Washington D.C. to Portland, OR, the press challenged Barack Obama and his staff to a game of Taboo.
Obama’s team won, despite not having any good questions for the clue “cockatoo”.
After the first win the press wanted a re-match–which the staff agreed to–but Obama teasingly asked how long the game goes on [...]
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Wizards of the Coast is running an art contest on Worth1000 for promotional materials featuring the iconic Dungeons & Dragons monster, the Beholder. The top three entries will each receive prizes of $100.
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The gaming automation trend continues with poker. Crave points us to this device for dealing cards:
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A man in Colorado dragged his girlfriend to death behind his car in 2006 and then pleaded mental retardation.
Unfortunately for him, he was filmed playing Chess in jail, and the defense is trying to use the tape as proof of mental competence.
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