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Author: Klutz Press
Publisher:
Published: 2002-10-18
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9780932592699
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDefinitive rules for the best 20 card games in the galaxy, along with 52 tools of the trade. Plus complete plans for a house of cards, two rub-your eyes card tricks and two solitaires that will crush any other solitaire you've ever heard of.
Author: Philip D. Morehead
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780451204844
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides rules, strategies, and odds for card, indoor, and computer games.
Author: Nikki Katz
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-12-18
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1440560153
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYour Favorite Card Games, All in One Place! Now you can enjoy all the games you've always loved--and find new favorites--with The Book of Card Games. From bridge and pitch to war and whist, this timeless collection outlines the rules to more than fifty classic games and a number of entertaining variations. You can reference the exact rules for gin rummy or try a new spin on the game-night staple with Manipulation Rummy. Why not switch it up on the poker table and go all in during a round of Anaconda, Football, or Omaha? You can even have fun on your own with solitary games like Free Cell and Monte Carlo. The Book of Card Games stacks the deck in your favor for hours of entertaining fun with family and friends!
Author: Sam Gorski
Publisher: Games You Can Play in Your Hea
Published: 2019-02-27
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780998379418
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Your mind is now the ultimate gaming engine. Ditch the remote. Ditch the controller. Explore worlds and stories through a revolutionary single-player role-playing system that pushes your imagination beyond its furthest limits"--Back cover.
Author: Barry Rigal
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2011-03-04
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 1118054768
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCard games offer loads of fun and one of the best socializing experiences out there. But picking up winning card strategies is a bit of a challenge, and though your buddies may think that picking up the rules of the game is easy, winning is a totally different story. With Card Games For Dummies, Second Edition, you’ll not only be able to play the hottest card games around, you can also apply game-winning strategies and tips to have fun and beat your opponents. Now updated, this hands-on guide shows you everything you need to know—the basics, the tricks, and the techniques—to become a master card player, with expanded coverage on poker as well as online gaming and tournaments. Soon you will have the card-playing power to: Pin down your opponents in Texas Hold’em Show off your power in Stud Poker Hit wisely in Blackjack Break hearts ruthlessly in Hearts Mix up the night with Gin and Rummy Build yourself a victory in Bridge Send them fishing in Go Fish This straightforward, no-nonsense guide features great ways to improve your game and have more fun, as well as a list of places to find out more about your favorite game. It also profiles different variations of each game, making you a player for all seasons!
Author: Scott McNeely
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2012-01-06
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 1452110484
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClassic and comprehensive, this guide to over 350 games is sure to appeal to all ages. From Bridge to Poker and Solitaireto Hearts, card games are a beloved source of entertainment and competition (and they are recession proof!). This authoritative book is ideal for every household, college dorm, family cabin, or neighborhood bar that has a pack of cards. Designed in the style of the popular Ultimate Bar Book, this essential resource provides the rules to dozensof variations of your favorite games, and a few you've probably never heard of (Bezique, anyone?). With simple instructions and clear illustrations to guide the way, this volume will be a welcome addition to any gamer's library.
Author: Karen Lord
Publisher: Del Rey
Published: 2015-01-06
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0345534085
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • A gripping science fiction saga about three students from a school for those with extraordinary powers, from the award-winning author of The Best of All Possible Worlds “A smart science fictional fable as inventive and involving as it is finally vital.”—Tordotcom On the verge of adulthood, Rafi attends the Lyceum, a school for the psionically gifted. Rafi possesses mental abilities that might benefit people . . . or control them. Some wish to help Rafi wield his powers responsibly; others see him as a threat to be contained. Rafi’s only freedom at the Lyceum is Wallrunning: a game of speed and agility played on vast vertical surfaces riddled with variable gravity fields. Serendipity and Ntenman are also students at the Lyceum, but unlike Rafi, they come from communities where such abilities are valued. Serendipity finds the Lyceum as much a prison as a school, and she yearns for a meaningful life beyond its gates. Ntenman, with his quick tongue, quicker mind, and a willingness to bend if not break the rules, has no problem fitting in. But he too has his reasons for wanting to escape. Now the three friends are about to experience a moment of violent change as seething tensions between rival star-faring civilizations come to a head. For Serendipity, this change will challenge her ideas of community and self. For Ntenman, it will open new opportunities and new dangers. And for Rafi, given a chance to train with some of the best Wallrunners in the galaxy, it will lead to the discovery that there is more to Wallrunning than he ever suspected . . . and more to himself than he ever dreamed. Includes two bonus short stories “There is a weight and grace to [Lord’s] prose that put me in mind of pewter jewelry.”—NPR “This novel is a satisfying exercise in being off-balance, a visceral lesson in how to fall forward and catch yourself in an amazing new place.”—The Seattle Times
Author: C. Thi Nguyen
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 0190052082
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGames are a unique art form. They do not just tell stories, nor are they simply conceptual art. They are the art form that works in the medium of agency. Game designers tell us who to be in games and what to care about; they designate the player's in-game abilities and motivations. In other words, designers create alternate agencies, and players submerge themselves in those agencies. Games let us explore alternate forms of agency. The fact that we play games demonstrates something remarkable about the nature of our own agency: we are capable of incredible fluidity with our own motivations and rationality. This volume presents a new theory of games which insists on games' unique value in human life. C. Thi Nguyen argues that games are an integral part of how we become mature, free people. Bridging aesthetics and practical reasoning, he gives an account of the special motivational structure involved in playing games. We can pursue goals, not for their own value, but for the sake of the struggle. Playing games involves a motivational inversion from normal life, and the fact that we can engage in this motivational inversion lets us use games to experience forms of agency we might never have developed on our own. Games, then, are a special medium for communication. They are the technology that allows us to write down and transmit forms of agency. Thus, the body of games forms a "library of agency" which we can use to help develop our freedom and autonomy. Nguyen also presents a new theory of the aesthetics of games. Games sculpt our practical activities, allowing us to experience the beauty of our own actions and reasoning. They are unlike traditional artworks in that they are designed to sculpt activities - and to promote their players' aesthetic appreciation of their own activity.
Author: Chronicle Books
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781452160993
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Oliver Ho
Publisher: Union Square Kids
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781402750410
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPick a card game - any game Everyone loves to play cards and this ultimate collection has all the fun favourites, including rummy, spades, war, old maid, go fish, snip snap snorem and hearts. There are over 50 games in all, organised by type and difficulty, and complete with instructions, rules, strategies, colour illustrations and a brief note on each one's origins.
