Games

Jane S. Whitfield

Webster's New World Crossword Puzzle Dictionary

Editura: Webster's New World

Anul aparitiei: 1996

Over 300,000 entries puzzle hounds up-to-the-minute puzzle clues and answers to help solve the most common -- and arcane -- puzzles around. Lists are arranged both alphabetically and by letter count, and cover a wide range of variant spellings, multiword phrases, and foreign-language terms.

Robert W. Schachner

The Official Scrabble Brand Word-Finder

Editura: MacMillan Publishing Company

Anul aparitiei: 1998

This all-new second edition of The Official Scrabble Brand Word-Finder is unique in its organization of officially accepted words, allowing the player to find the highest-scoring word in the shortest time. It reflects additions and deletions from the last three editions of The Official Scrabble Dictionary, and includes a complete list of two-letter words and three-letter words formed from two-letter words, as well as an invaluable and completely new section, "Ten Tips for a Better Game." There are even newly minted words, such as ab, yo, and ed, and a directory of prefixes, suffixes, and plurals. The Official Scrabble Brand Word-Finder is faster than a dictionary and will help you become a Scrabble champion. Scrabble is a trademark of Hasbro in the United States and Canada. 2001 Hasbro. All rights reserved.

Phil, Jr. Hellmuth

Play Poker Like the Pros: The Greatest Poker Player in the World Today Reveals His Million-Dollar-Winning Strategies to the Most Popular Tournam

Editura: Harper Paperbacks

Anul aparitiei: 2003

In Play Poker Like the Pros , poker master Phil Hellmuth, Jr., demonstrates exactly how to play and win -- even if you have never picked up a deck of cards -- the modern games of poker, including: Texas Hold'em, Omaha, Seven-Card Stud, and Razz. Phil Hellmuth, Jr., a seven-time World Champion of Poker, presents his tournament-tested strategies to beat any type of player, including: The Jackal (crazy and unpredictable) The Elephant (plays too many hands) The Mouse (plays very conservatively) The Lion (skilled and tough to beat) Play Poker Like the Pros begins by laying out the rules and set-up of each game and then moves on to easy-to-follow basic and advanced strategies. Hellmuth teaches exactly which hands to play, when to bluff, when to raise, and when to fold. In addition Hellmuth provides techniques for reading other players and staying cool under pressure. There are also special chapters on how to beat online poker games and an inside look at tournament play.

David Edmonds, John Eidinow

Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How a Lone American Star Defeated the Soviet Chess Machine

Editura: Harper Perennial

Anul aparitiei: 2005

By the authors of the national bestseller Wittgenstein's Poker, a riveting account of the legendary 1972 chess match between Boris Spassky, the world champion from the Soviet Union, and the American challenger Bobby Fischer In the summer of 1972, with a presidential crisis stirring in the United States and the cold war at a pivotal point, the Soviet world chess champion Boris Spassky and his American challenger Bobby Fischer met in Reykjavik, Iceland for a chess match that held the world spellbound for two months with reports of psychological warfare, political intrigue, and cliffhangers. Thirty years later, David Edmonds and John Eidinow have set out to reexamine the story we recollect as the quintessential cold war clash between a lone American star and the Soviet chess machine. A mesmerizing narrative of hubris and despair, Bobby Fischer Goes to War is a biting deconstruction of the Bobby Fischer myth, a nuanced study on the art of brinkmanship, and a revelatory cold war tragicomedy.

Daniel Stark, Stanley Newman

The Million Word Crossword Dictionary

Editura: HarperResource

Anul aparitiei: 2004

With more than 1,300,000 answers, this volume contains more than twice as many words as any other crossword dictionary. Meticulously compiled by two crossword professionals with a combined fifty years in the field and based on a massive analysis of current crosswords, there has never been a crossword dictionary with the breadth, depth, and currency of this one. From Jim Carrey to Sister Carrie, Homer Simpson to Homer's Iliad, the wide-ranging entries include 500,000+ synonyms, 3,000+ literary works, 3,000+ films, 20,000+ famous people from all fields, and more than 50,000 fill-in-the-blank clues so popular in today's crosswords. Featuring an introduction by New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz, The Million Word Crossword Dictionary makes every other crossword dictionary obsolete. This edition offers thousands of new entries, including slang terms; brand names; celebrity names; and films, novelists' works, sports Hall of Famers, automobile models, and more. The larger type size makes finding the answers easier than ever.

Stanley Newman, Daniel Stark

The Million Word Crossword Dictionary

Editura: Collins Reference

Anul aparitiei: 2005

The Diagram Group, Diagram Group

Card Games

Editura: HarperTorch

Anul aparitiei: 2003

Card playing has been a popular pastime for more than five hundred years -- and there is still no better way to bring a family together. This compact yet comprehensive volume contains the rules and strategies for a wealth of fun and action-packed card games that the entire household can enjoy -- from bridge to go fish to pinochle to skat. No matter if your preference runs to the challenging or to the zany, there is something for everyone in these pages, expert player and novice alike. Get ready to start dealing! More than sixty family-friendly games Play-by-play diagrams Games specifically designed for children Long-time favorites and little-known gems A useful glossary of card-playing terms

Ben Mezrich

Busting Vegas: A True Story of Monumental Excess, Sex, Love, Violence, and Beating the Odds

Editura: Harper Perennial

Anul aparitiei: 2006

He played in casinos around the world with a plan to make himself richer than anyone could possibly imagine -- but it would nearly cost him his life.Semyon Dukach was known as the Darling of Las Vegas. A legend at age twenty-one, this cocky hotshot was the biggest high roller to appear in Sin City in decades, a mathematical genius with a system the casinos had never seen before and couldn't stop -- a system that has never been revealed until now; that has nothing to do with card counting, wasn't illegal, and was more powerful than anything that had been tried before.Las Vegas. Atlantic City. Aruba. Barcelona. London. And the jewel of the gambling crown -- Monte Carlo.Dukach and his fellow MIT students hit them all and made millions. They came in hard, with stacks of cash; big, seemingly insane bets; women hanging on their arms; and fake identities. Although they were taking classes and studying for exams during the week, over the weekends they stormed the blackjack tables only to be harassed, banned from casinos, threatened at gunpoint, and beaten in Vegas's notorious back rooms.The stakes were high, the dangers very real, but the players were up to the challenges, consequences be ...

David Feldman

Are Lobsters Ambidextrous?: An Imponderables Book

Editura: Harper Paperbacks

Anul aparitiei: 2005

The sixth book in David Feldman's bestselling Imponderables(R) series, packed with even more answers to perplexing questions and solutions to everyday mysteries Culled from the thousands of letters submitted by desperate fans, the questions in Are Lobsters Ambidextrous? would have overwhelmed a lesser authority than David Feldman. Has anyone ever seen a live Cornish game hen?When a body is laid out in a funeral home, why is the head always on the left side from the viewer's vantage point?Why is there no Betty Rubble in Flintstones vitamins?What are the little numbers on the bottom right of cancelled checks?Why do quarterbacks always say "Hut"?Why do dogs eat standing up while cats often eat sitting down?What does the "Q" in "Q-tips" stand for?What do they do with the caffeine left over from making decaffeinated coffee?And more! With 141 irresistible entries, charming illustrations by longtime Imponderables(R) collaborator Kassie Schwan, and almost 100,000 copies sold in combined editions, Are Lobsters Ambidextrous? is an Imponderables(R) classic. ...

Phil, Jr. Hellmuth

Phil Hellmuth's Texas Hold'em

Editura: HarperTorch

Anul aparitiei: 2005

In Play Poker Like the Pros, poker master Phil Hellmuth, Jr., demonstrates exactly how to play and win -- even if you have never picked up a deck of cards -- the modern games of poker, including: Texas Hold'em, Omaha, Seven-Card Stud, and Razz. Phil Hellmuth, Jr., a seven-time World Champion of Poker, presents his tournament-tested strategies to beat any type of player, including: The Jackal (crazy and unpredictable)The Elephant (plays too many hands) The Mouse (plays very conservatively)The Lion (skilled and tough to beat) Play Poker Like the Pros begins by laying out the rules and set-up of each game and then moves on to easy-to-follow basic and advanced strategies. Hellmuth teaches exactly which hands to play, when to bluff, when to raise, and when to fold. In addition Hellmuth provides techniques for reading other players and staying cool under pressure. There are also special chapters on how to beat online poker games and an inside look at tournament play.

TV Guide

The Big Book of TV Guide Crosswords, #1: Test Your TV IQ with More Than 250 Great Puzzles from TV Guide!

Editura: Collins Reference

Anul aparitiei: 1993

All in one volume - -a colossal collection of favorite TV Guide crossword puzzles from the last four decades.

TV Guide

The Big Book of TV Guide Crosswords #2

Editura: Collins Reference

Anul aparitiei: 1993

Featuring more than 250 favorite TV Guide crossword puzzles, this colossal collection is guaranteed to provide hours of mind-puzzling fun. Relive your favorite television moments, test the limits of your word power, and give your memory a real workout with these great puzzles from TV Guide . How well do you remember the great television shows from the forties, fifties, sixties, seventies, eighties, and today? Test your recall, as well as your word mastery, with this wonderful collection. Featuring more than 250 great puzzles--favorites from the past, as well as new word teasers-- The Big Book of TV Guide Crosswords #2 provides hours of entertainment!

Andrew Swanfeldt

Crossword Puzzle Dictionary

Editura: HarperTorch

Anul aparitiei: 1990

More than 1/3 million answer words Easiest to use Easiest on the eyes Here is the work that made all other puzzle dictionaries obsolete. Its unique Instant Finder System saves you time-consuming searches through the long, jumbled paragraphs of words that are so common in other crossword puzzle dictionaries. Suppose your clue is a six-letter word for RAGE: just turn to that entry and your eye immediately picks out the bold number 6. Now you can pick your answer from just five words, ignoring the 32 others that can't fit.

Daniel Stark, Stanley Newman

The Million Word Crossword Answer Book

Editura: Collins Reference

Anul aparitiei: 2008

From the authors of "The Million Word Crossword Dictionary" comes this radically comprehensive word finder that can be used by solvers when two or more letters of the answer to a clue are known.

Killer Su Doku 1: The Deadly New Dimension

Editura: HarperCollins Publishers

Anul aparitiei: 2006

Just when you thought it was safe to pick up a pencil Killer Su Doku is based on the original Su Doku grid, with the same rules and numbers--1 to 9--but with an added deadly twist. This time there is an element of arithmetic involved and there are few, if any, clues. The aim is to not only complete every row, column, and cube so that it contains the digits 1 to 9, but to also fill in the outlined cubes so they add up to the same number. Hints to solve the puzzle are hidden in the joined squares where only one combination of numbers applies. In the case of joined squares, if the printed number is 3, it should be 1 and 2 that go into the squares. Likewise, in the case of three joined squares, if the printed number is 6, the only combination possible is 1, 2, and 3. To add one final fiendish level, each puzzle also has a time worked out by its Japanese creators so you can try to beat the clock.

New York Post Fiendish Sudoku: The Official Utterly Addictive Number-Placing Puzzle

Editura: HarperCollins Publishers

Anul aparitiei: 2006

200 New Puzzles -- From Fiendish to Super Fiendish Su Doku, "the crossword without words," comes with a warning: it is seriously addictive. You don't need to be a mathematical genius to solve these puzzles; it is simply a question of logic and a little patience.

Wayne Gould

New York Post Difficult Su Doku: The Official Utterly Adictive Number-Placing Puzzle

Editura: HarperCollins Publishers

Anul aparitiei: 2006

200 New Difficult Puzzles -- They Are Not Going to Be Easy But You Are Ready Su Doku, "the crossword without words," comes with a warning: it is seriously addictive. You don't need to be a mathematical genius to solve these puzzles; it is simply a question of logic and a little patience.

New York Post Easy Su Doku: The Official Utterly Addictive Number-Placing Puzzle

Editura: HarperCollins Publishers

Anul aparitiei: 2006

200 New Puzzles -- From Easy to Just About Difficult Su Doku, "the crossword without words," comes with a warning: it is seriously addictive. You don't need to be a mathematical genius to solve these puzzles; it is simply a question of logic and a little patience.

Joe Navarro

Phil Hellmuth Presents Read 'em and Reap: A Career FBI Agent's Guide to Decoding Poker Tells

Editura: HarperCollins Publishers

Anul aparitiei: 2006

very great player knows that success in poker is part luck, part math, and part subterfuge. While the math of poker has been refined over the past 20 years, the ability to read other players and keep your own "tells" in check has mostly been learned by trial and error. But now, Joe Navarro, a former FBI counterintelligence officer specializing in nonverbal communication and behavior analysis--or, to put it simply, a man who can tell when someone's lying--offers foolproof techniques, illustrated with amazing examples from poker pro Phil Hellmuth, that will help you decode and interpret your opponents' body language and other silent tip-offs while concealing your own. You'll become a human lie detector, ready to call every bluff--and the most feared player in the room.

New York Post Planes, Trains, and Sudoku: The Official Utterly Addictive Number-Placing Puzzle

Editura: HarperCollins Publishers

Anul aparitiei: 2006

These 100 new puzzles—from easy to fiendishly difficult—come with a warning: They are seriously addictive. You don't need to be a mathematical genius to solve these puzzles; it is simply a question of logic and a little patience. Beware of pale imitations. These are the original and official Su Doku puzzles by Wayne Gould— New York Post 's Su Doku puzzle master and one of Time magazine's Most Influential People.