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Shooting For My Mark: Ready, Aim, Bowl! -
Judi Lake (1,870)   
Judi Lake  
“There are several ways to
approach this," he said, bowling ball in hand. He was already sounding like
a brain surgeon groping for words to explain frontal lobotomies to a layman. “You can face your pins or you can shoot for your mark," I
heard, certain that an appropriate response was... ( added 1 year 340 days ago.) |
How To Set Up Your Chess Board -
Lisa Devore (96)  
The first thing you need to do is make sure the bottom right hand square is white or light. If it is not you will have to start over. To set the pieces start with the the corners. The rooks go on all four corners. Next come the knights, the knights are placed next to the rooks. Then put the... ( added 1 year 157 days ago.) |
Fun and Creative Party Game Ideas For Kids -
Kaydee Grant (1,774)
The date is set, the invitations are out, and now you're preparing yourself for a house full of active, energetic children to entertain. Have no fear! With a few simple, well planned out innovative game ideas, you can not only throw a fun and memorable party, but actually sit back and enjoy the... ( added 2 years 269 days ago.) |
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A Guide to Jigsaw Puzzles -
C. Ebenal (36)
From the very start jigsaw puzzles have been a fun educational tool. John Spilsbury,a London mapmaker and engraver, made the first jigsaw puzzle in about 1766. Splisbury attached a map onto a piece of wood, then cut out the countries and continents allowing his customers as well as geography... ( added 3 years 46 days ago.) |
Choosing The Right Game Table For Your Home Game Room -
Joe Schmieder (851)
Buying a game table for your family game room can be a daunting task. But after reading this article you'll be up to that task!
Let's talk about the tables and features and which table or combination of tables would be perfect for some good old fashioned, family fun!
Air Hockey Game... ( added 3 years 84 days ago.) |
Dice Sports Games That Are Fun The Baseball Game -
King John (126)
This is the third installment in a world of incredibly fun sports games played with dice. In the first installment I taught you how to play the college version of Dice Football. Then in the second you learned the Pro Football dice game. Now it is Dice Baseball, which is the first dice game that I... ( added 3 years 104 days ago.) |
Mobile Game Programming Tips -
Hari Shankar (116)
So you want to be a games programmer? The only thing better than playing games in my opinion is writing them Whilst it can be hard work learning to write computer games, it is also incredibly rewarding. Where Do I Start? There are many possible languages for developing mobile games. From my... ( added 3 years 151 days ago.) |
Introduction to Sudoku -
GrandMatrix Team (315)
Have you ever played with a Rubik's Cube? You may have mastered the Rubik's cube and are looking for a greater challenge. Try the puzzle game called Sudoku . Sudoku is a number placement puzzle that requires logic skills and patience. It is a fantastic puzzle game that can be found in newspapers... ( added 4 years 62 days ago.) |
How to Create a New Pencil and Paper Game. -
 - Paul Hoemke (248) 
Creating a new pencil and paper game is easier if you use an existing game as a starting point. Take for example Tic Tac Toe.
Tic Tac Toe is played on a 3-by-3 grid of squares formed by drawing two horizontal lines across two vertical lines. Two players take turns playing, each drawing a... ( added 107 days 6 hours ago.) |
How to Create a New Board Game. -
- Paul Hoemke (248)
A new board game can be built around a simple idea. For instance, you can create a board game where you roll a standard die and move a checker across a checkerboard a number of squares equal to the number thrown.
You decide to make this a blocking game where you lay down tokens to block your... ( added 107 days 6 hours ago.) |
How to Create a New Dice Game. -
- Paul Hoemke (248)
Creating a new game can be fairly easy if you start with an idea from an existing game and expand on it. And you can often create a game using common game equipment. There is a dice game called Shut the Box that uses a pair of dice, and box with a row of twelve hinged tiles containing the numbers... ( added 107 days 6 hours ago.) |
How to Create a New Game -
- Paul Hoemke (248)
The easiest way to create a new game is to start with the central idea from an existing game, add some instructions, and build the game around standard game equipment - standard playing cards, standard dice, and a standard checkerboard and checkers. The result could be a variation of an existing... ( added 107 days 7 hours ago.) |
False Ideas on Winning at Monopoly -
- John Rosenberg (231)
There are a number of false ideas when it comes to how to win at monopoly. These are little things people think help them win, but it actually works against them.
1. "You Shouldn't buy Everything You Land on"
I don't know how many people I have talked to that have said that same thing.... ( added 243 days 21 hours ago.) |
Nintendo Brain Training For 10 Year Old Kids -
Gabriela Schmid (894)  
Gabriela Schmid
Could a pencil and paper turn out to be a better workout for your brain than the new brain training games? According to a recent scientific study: Yes.
The results of the study show that 10-year-olds playing the Nintendo Brain Training (or Brain Age) game showed no improvement in... ( added 265 days 9 hours ago.) |
How to Calculate the Right Size for a Chess Board Square -
William Smith jr (203)
In determining the right size chess board square, there is the easy method, and a more complicated method. The easy method is just this: take the diameter of the king base, and add " to it, or more if you like. Or, as a general rule of thumb, take 0.75 and divide it into the king base diameter.... ( added 307 days 20 hours ago.) |
Get a Load of Kids' Halloween Crafts Galore! -
Yogi Shinde (1,488) 
Yogi Shinde
If you are on the lookout for kids' Halloween crafts, there are a lot of fun and easy projects that you can have them work on.
Next to Christmas, Halloween is one of the most-awaited holidays by kids and adults alike. For adults, costume parties are the ones that they look forward to. To make... ( added 1 year 39 days ago.) |
The Origin and History of Chess -
William Smith jr (203)
The origin of chess, shrouded in the mists of history, depends very much on one`s own perspective. We cannot, unfortunately, trace the history of chess with a bold black line that leads from the game as we know it today, to a point in the past where we can unambiguously say, "Uh ha! This is where... ( added 1 year 52 days ago.) |
How to Create the Perfect Chess Defense -
- Elizabeth Traineroni (31)
A chess set consists of 32 pieces: 16 white and 16 black, representing two sides of a chess game. To understand how to play chess and develop strategy, it's imperative to know how each piece moves. This very simple knowledge is necessary to truly grasp the authority of each chess piece and in the... ( added 1 year 53 days ago.) |
Solving Sudoku Puzzles: A Technical Approach -
John Teh (13)
Numerous players of the Sudoku find this puzzle game very hard to work out. Nonetheless, because of the ingenious minds of most players, they've produced methods, schemes and answers to make the game less complicated.
The following are some of those solutions that the players have arrived at... ( added 1 year 105 days ago.) |
Chess Openings: Classic and Modern Chess Openings To Start On Top -
Mike Hirn (640)
The first moves of a chess game are collectively known as the opening. Chess openings vary widely in character, from quiet positional play to wild tactical play.
Sometimes a player can opt to start off with a sequence of opening moves that is considered standard. These moves are referred to as... ( added 1 year 248 days ago.) |
Mahjong Solitaire Strategy For Beginners -
- Dan Fletcher (1,521) 
Based on how simple the rules are, you would assume that mahjong solitaire would be an easy game to play. Just remove matching tiles, as long as the matching tiles aren't blocked by any another tiles.
Of course, it's not that simple. If you've just started playing mahjong solitaire you will... ( added 1 year 290 days ago.) |
General Knowledge Quiz Questions From Fun Trivia -
- Deanna Mascle (4,422) 
Question: Who were ziggurats? Answer: Stepped towers or temple towers Interesting Fact: A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories. Question: Who wrote Bambi? Answer: Siegmund Salzmann aka Felix Salten... ( added 1 year 333 days ago.) |
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Backyard Cornhole Tournaments are Fun -
Mark Smithn (17)
Cornhole is a game where players take turns pitching bags
filled with corn into raised platforms.
It's gaining huge popularity in the United States at tailgates,
barbecues, and NASCAR events.
With the popularity of Cornhole come the bravo players who
claim they are the best.... ( added 3 years 63 days ago.) |
Sudoku Generator For Mobile -
Hari Shankar (116)
Writing Sudoku solver is not a great task, but when it comes to writing it for a mobile phone it is really hard to choose which algorithm to use. We were in a bad situation to decide whether to write 1000s of lines and reduce the CPU power conception, or to write the most compact code.... ( added 3 years 151 days ago.) |
Einstein's Riddle - Can You Solve It? -
Steve Gillman (10,762)
Some have said Einstein's riddle is the worlds hardest riddle. It isn't. The story is that Albert Einstein created it as a young man, and claimed that 98% of the world population couldn't solve it. Though I'm not certain of the true origin, it is a tough one, and it is a good way to exercise your... ( added 3 years 174 days ago.) |
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