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8-bit era - 16-bit era - 32-bit era - 128-bit era In the history of video games, the 8-bit era was the third generation of video game consoles, but the first after the video game crash of 1983. ... (Redirected from 16-bit era) In the history of video games, the 16-bit era was the fourth generation of video game consoles. ... Ridge Racer was one of Sonys launch titles for the PlayStation; it was a port of the Namco-made arcade game. ... The sixth-generation era (sometimes inaccurately referred to as the 128-bit era; see section below) refers to the computer and video games, video game consoles, and video game handhelds available at the turn of the 21st century. ...


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Abalone (board game) - Abandonware - Abstract strategy game - Acquire - Advanced Dungeons & Dragons - Advanced Squad Leader - Adventure game - Alak (board game) - Algebraic chess notation - Alpha-beta pruning - Alpha Blitz - Alquerque - Amazons (game) - Amiga games - Anagrams - Ancient game - Andantino (game) - Anime game - Antichess - Arcade cabinet - Arcade game - Arduin - Ars Magica - Articulate - Assassin (game) - Audio game - Avalanche chess - Avalon Hill - Axis & Allies Abalone is a two-player strategy board game which can be quaintly summarized as sumo wrestling with marbles, as the objective is to push opposing marbles off the edge of the board. ... Abandonware is computer software which is no longer being sold or supported by its copyright holder. ... An abstract strategy game is a board game with perfect information, no chance, and (usually) two players. ... Acquire is an abstract board game of investing in hotel chains. ... For other uses, see Dungeons & Dragons (disambiguation). ... Advanced Squad Leader (ASL) is a wargame that simulates small unit actions (individual counters represent single vehicles, men and squads) in World War II. It is not simply a game, but rather a detailed game system. ... Adventure is a genre of video game typified by exploration, puzzle-solving, interaction with game characters, and a focus on narrative rather than reflex-based challenges. ... Alak is a close relative of the board game Go played on a one_dimensional board. It was originally described in A. K. Dewdneys 1984 book The Planiverse; in 2001, Alan Baljeu modified the game to its present state. ... Algebraic chess notation is the method used today by all competition chess organizations and most books, magazines, and newspapers to record and describe the play of chess games. ... Alpha-beta pruning is a technique to reduce the number of nodes evaluated in the search tree by the minimax algorithm for two-player games. ... Alpha Blitz is a word game designed by Mike Selinker and published by Wizards of the Coast. ... Alquerque (also known as Quirkat) is a board game that is thought to have originated in the Middle East. ... Amazons is a board game invented by Walter Zamkauskas in 1988 as El Juego de las Amazonas. ... The Commodore Amiga was an important platform for computer games in the late 1980s and early 1990s. ... Anagrams is an anagram board game which is played with tiles from another word game, such as Scrabble or Upwords. ... Andantino is a two-player dynamic board game of abstract strategy, invented by David Smith. ... Anime games are computer or video games that are based on anime or manga, or use an art style commonly stereotyped as anime in their presentation (technically, anime is not an art style, though many follow a certain trend), or upon which anime or manga have been made. ... Antichess, also called losing chess, losers chess, zero chess, and suicide chess, is a chess variant in which the objective is to lose all of your pieces. ... This arcade cabinet, containing Centipede, is an upright. ... Centipede by Atari is a typical example of a 1980s era arcade game. ... For the historical character, see Arduin of Ivrea. ... Ars Magica is a role-playing game set in Mythic Europe, an idealized (or quasi-historical) version of Europe around 1200 AD. The game revolves around magic-using wizards and their allies. ... Assassin (also called Assassins, Paranoia, or Killer) is a game commonly played on college campuses. ... An audio game is a game played on an electronic device. ... Avalanche chess is a chess variant designed by Ralph Betza in 1977. ... Avalon Hill was a game company that specialized in wargames and strategic board games. ... Box art for the first edition Axis and Allies is a strategy board game by the Milton Bradley Company set during World War II. Milton Bradley released it as part of their Gamemaster Series in 1984 and it was the most successful of the five; in April 2004, Hasbro released...


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Backgammon - Balderdash - Banach-Mazur game - Battleship - Betrayal at House on the Hill - Big Two - Bingo - Bishōjo game - Black Box (game) - Blood Bowl - Board game - Board game complexity - Bohnanza - Boggle - Boggle Master - Bookworm - Breakthrough (board game) - Broadsides and Boarding Parties - Bunnies and Burrows - Buzzword bingo - Byoyomi Close-up of modern backgammon set. ... Look up Balderdash on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Balderdash is a proprietary board game combining elements of bluff and knowledge of trivia. ... In mathematics, in particular in general topology and set theory, a Banach-Mazur game is a game played between two players, trying to pin down elements in a set (space). ... HMS Victory in 1884 In naval warfare, a battleship was the most powerful gun-armed, most heavily armored and most effective type of warship at any particular time. ... A board game by Bruce Glassco published by Avalon Hill. ... The card game Big Two (Chinese: 大二; pinyin: dà èr; Cantonese: 鋤大D) is a card game similar to the game of President (also known as Asshole). ... Bingo Bingo is a game of chance where randomly-selected numbers are drawn and players match those numbers to those appearing on 5x5 matrixes which are printed or electronically represented and are known as cards. ... A bishōjo game (美少女ゲーム bishōjo gÄ“mu); more often spelled bishoujo game), also known as a girl game/gal game is a type of Japanese video game centered around interactions with attractive anime-style girls. ... Black Box is a game of hide and seek for one or two players, which simulates shooting rays into a black box to deduce the locations of balls hidden inside. ... Blood Bowl is a tabletop board game created by Jervis Johnson for the British games company Games Workshop as a parody of American Football. ... A board game is any game played with a premarked surface, with counters or pieces that are moved across the board. ... In game theory, game complexity is a measure of the complexity of a game. ... Bohnanza is a German-style card game of trading and politics, designed by Uwe Rosenberg and released in German and English by Rio Grande Games. ... The box of the game Boggle Boggle is a word game designed by Allan Turoff and trademarked by Parker Brothers / Hasbro, Inc. ... The box of the game Boggle Boggle is a word game designed by Allan Turoff and trademarked by Parker Brothers / Hasbro, Inc. ... Bookworm can refer to: The insect of that name. ... Breakthrough is an abstract strategy board game invented by Dan Troyka in 2000 and soon after published by Zillions (http://www. ... Broadsides and Boarding Parties is a board game created by Milton Bradley in 1984 as part of their Gamemaster Series. ... Bunnies and Burrows (B&B) is a role-playing game (RPG) loosely (and unofficially) based upon the novel Watership Down about a group of talking rabbits seeking to found a new warren. ... Buzzword bingo is a game sometimes played in relaxed team meetings. ... Byo-yomi is an extended time control in two-player games, specifically Shogi and Go. ...


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Calculation (solitaire) - Candy Land game - Can't Stop - Capablanca chess - Capture the flag - Car game - Carcassonne (board game) - Card game - Careers (board game) - Caroms - Car wars - Casino - Casino game - Castle Risk - Cat's cradle (string game) - Chaosium - Charades - Chaturanga - Chaupar - Che Deng - The Checkered Game of Life - Checkers - Cheddar Gorge (game) - Chess - Chessboard - Chess columns in newspapers - Chess historian - Chess piece - Chess problem - Chess puzzle - Chess-related deaths - Chicken game - Children's game - Chinese checkers - Chinese dominoes - Cho Hunhyun - Chutes and Ladders - Circe chess - Citadels (game) - Civilization board game - Clapping game Cluedo - Collectible card game - Computability logic - Computer chess - Computer game - Computer Go - Computer Olympiad - Computer Poker Players - Computer role-playing game - Connect Four - Consequences - Console emulator - Continuous game - Contract bridge - Conway's Game of Life - Cooperative game - CooperYoung - Counting game - Counting-out game - Cranium (board game) - Crokinole - Image:Crokold.gif - Crossings (game) - Crossword - Crossword abbreviations - Cryptic crossword - Cut (playing cards) Calculation is a solitaire card game. ... A simple race game that requires no ability to read or count, Candy Land has become something of a cultural icon in the U.S., where it is often the first board game played by children. ... Cant Stop is a board game for up to four players. ... Capablanca chess. ... Capture the flag is a traditional outdoor game often played by children where two teams have a flag each and the objective is to capture the other teams flag, located at the teams base, and bring it back to their own base. ... Car games are games played to pass the time on long car journeys, often started by parents to amuse restless children. ... Carcassonne is a tile-based German-style board game for two to five players, designed by Klaus-Jürgen Wrede and published in 2000 by Hans im Glück in German and Rio Grande Games in English. ... A card game is any game using playing cards, either traditional or game-specific. ... Careers is a board game first manufactured by Parker Brothers in 1955. ... Carrom is a family of table games sharing a similarity in that their mechanics lie somewhere between billiards and shuffleboard. ... Car Wars is a combat board game developed by Steve Jackson Games. ... Casino (disambiguation). ... Games available in most casinos are commonly called casino games. ... Castle Risk is a version of the board game Risk that is played on a map of Europe. ... Cats cradle is a well known string game or series of string figures. ... Chaosium is one of the longer lived publishers of role_playing games still in existence. ... Charades or charade is a word guessing game. ... Chaturanga. ... Chaupar is a board game played in India that is very similar to Pachisi. ... Categories: Game stubs ... The Checkered Game of Life was invented by Milton Bradley in 1861. ... starting position on a 10×10 draughts board Draughts, also known as checkers, is a group of mental sport board games between two players which involve diagonal moves of uniform pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over the enemys pieces. ... Cheddar Gorge is a word game often played on the BBC radio comedy show Im Sorry I Havent A Clue. ... A chess table is a table with a chessboard painted or engraved on it. ... A chessboard is often painted or engraved on a chess table. ... The earliest known chess column appeared in the Lancet in 1823, but due to lack of popularity disappeared after less than a year. ... List of chess historians Harold Murray Thomas Hyde Hiram Cox Professor Duncan Forbes Richard Eales Edward Winter External links Initiative Group K nigstein Edward Winters Column at ChessCafe Categories: Stub ... In chess, each player has one of two equivalent sets of pieces of different colors. ... Sam Loyd, London Era, 1861 Excelsior by Sam Loyd. ... The longstanding popularity of chess has paved the way for a rich tradition of chess-related puzzles and composed problems. ... As with all games over a certain age, chess has been associated with a number of anecdotes; some of these relate to games that have gotten out of hand and resulted in the murder of one of the players involved. ... The game of chicken (also referred to as playing chicken) is a game in which two players each drive a vehicle of some sort towards each other, and the first to swerve loses and is humiliated as the chicken. In practice, this sort of game, if played at all, is... Some childrens games include: Ball tag Blind Mans Bluff British Bulldog Butts Up Cats cradle Chain tag Conkers Cops and robbers Doctor Dodge ball Duck duck goose Ducks and Drakes aka Skipping stones Flashlight tag Follow the Leader Four square Gite (Indian) Heads Up, Seven Up Hide... Chinese checkers Chinese checkers is a board game that can be played by two to six people. ... A set of Chinese dominoes Chinese dominoes are used in several tile-based games, namely, Tien Gow, Pai Gow, Gwat Pai, Che Deng, Tiu U, Kap Tai Shap. ... Cho Hunhyun (조훈현 ; 曺薰鉉;) (born March 10, 1953) is a Korean 9-dan professional Go player. ... Chutes and Ladders is a board game produced by Milton Bradley (which was purchased by the games current distributor Hasbro) and mainly distributed in the United States of America. ... Circe chess (or just circe) is a chess variant in which captured pieces are reborn on their starting positions as soon as they are captured, based on the following rules: Pawns return to the start position on the same file they are captured on. ... Citadels is a German-style Card game, designed by Bruno Faidutti and originally published as Ohne Furcht und Adel, which (loosely) means Fearless and Aristocratic. Citadels was a finalist for the 2000 Spiel des Jahres award. ... Civilization® is a board game designed by Francis Tresham, published in Britain in 1980 by Hartland Trefoil (later by Gibson Games), and in the US in 1981 by Avalon Hill. ... A clapping game is type of cooperative (ie non-competitive) game which is generally played by two players. ... Cluedo (Clue in Canada and the U.S.) is a murder mystery board game originally published by Waddington Games, UK in 1948. ... Collectible card games (CCGs), also called customizable card games or trading card games, are played using specially designed sets of cards. ... Computability logic is a formal theory of computability, introduced by Giorgi Japaridze in 2003. ... The idea of creating a chess-playing machine dates back to the eighteenth century. ... A computer game is a game composed of a computer-controlled virtual universe that players interact with in order to achieve a defined goal or set of goals. ... Computer Go is the field of artificial intelligence (A.I.) dedicated to creating a computer program that plays Go, an ancient board game. ... The Computer Olympiads are a multi-games event taking place every year in which computer programs compete against each other. ... The game of poker (or at least most of the variants) is considered to be computationally unsolvable. ... Computer role-playing games (CRPGs), often shortened to simply role-playing games (RPGs), are a type of video or computer game that traditionally uses gameplay elements found in paper-and-pencil role-playing games. ... Connect Four (also known as Plot Four) is a two-player board game in which the objective is to be the first to get four of ones own discs in a line. ... Consequences is an old parlour game similar to the surrealist game exquisite corpse. ... A console emulator is a program for a computer, or other computing device, that can emulate a video game console or handheld, so a computer can be used to play games that were created for that console or to develop games for that console. ... A continuous game, or real-time game, is a game without pauses, turns, rounds, or other stopping points. ... Contract bridge, usually known simply as bridge, is a trick-taking card game for four players who form two partnerships, or sides. The partners on each side sit opposite one another. ... Gosper Glider Gun creating gliders. The Game of Life is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970. ... A cooperative game is a game wherein two or more players do not compete, but rather strive toward a unique objective and therefore win or lose as a group. ... CooperYoung is an abstract board game invented by Luke Pebody while a doctoral student in Memphis, Tennessee, and named after a midtown Memphis neighborhood he lived in known as Cooper-Young (see neighborhood website), which takes its name from the intersection of two streets. ... The counting game is a cooperative game usually played with a large number of participants-- possibly as few as three or as many as twenty, but working best with about ten. ... A counting-out game is a simple game intended to select a person to be it, often for the purpose of playing another game. ... Cranium is a board game manufactured by its own company, Cranium, Inc. ... Crokinole is an action board game similar to caroms, shove hapenny or squails with elements of shuffleboard and curling reduced to table-top size. ... Crossings is a two-player abstract strategy board game invented by Robert Abbott. ... The crossword is the most common variety of word puzzle in the world. ... Cryptic crosswords often use abbreviations to clue individual letters or short fragments of the overall solution. ... Cryptic crosswords are a particular type of crossword which have become widely popular in the UK, and several other Commonwealth nations such as Australia, New Zealand and India. ... After a deck of cards is shuffled by the dealer, it is often given to a player other than the one who performed the shuffle for a procedure called a cut. ...


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Dahrumasan ga koronda - Daimonin - Dating sim - The Dark Eye - Dice - Die game - Dingbats - Diplomacy (game) - Djambi - Dojin game - Dots and Boxes - Drachar och Demoner - DragonQuest - Drinking game - Dungeon Master - Dungeons & Dragons - DVD TV games - Dvorak Card Game Dahrumasan ga Koronda is a Japanese game for at least three players. ... The village of Stoneglow at night (Linux) Daimonin is an open source, multiplayer online computer role-playing game that is based on Crossfire. ... Dating simulations are a genre of computer and video games, usually Japanese, with romantic elements. ... There are two Dark eye video games, the first was one was: The Dark Eye: a video game by inscape inspired by Edgar Allen Poe stories-1995 [1] secondly: The Dark Eye (TDE, German: Das Schwarze Auge (DSA), literally the black eye, but without its idiomatic sense, as the German... Rolling dice A die (Old French de, from Latin datum something given or played [1]) is a small polyhedral object (usually a cube) suitable as a gambling device (especially for craps or sic bo). ... ... This article is about the board game. ... Diplomacy game board, showing regions and boundaries. ... Djambi (also described as Machiavellis chessboard) is a board game and a chess variant for four players, invented by Jean Anesto in 1975. ... Dōjin game (同人ゲ−ム, also romanised as Doujin Game) in Japan is an informal term for computer games created by non-professionals, mostly for fun but sometimes for profit. ... Dots and Boxes (also known as Boxes, Squares, Square-it, Dots and Dashes, or Dots) is a pencil and paper game for two players (or sometimes, more than two). ... This article needs copyediting (checking for proper English spelling, grammar, usage, tone, style, and voice). ... This page is a candidate to be copied to Wikibooks. ... The primary sense of Dungeon Master (or dungeonmaster or DM) is the organizer of a role-playing game. ... Players Handbook for D&D Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as D&D, DnD, or AD&D for the advanced edition) is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (RPG) published by Wizards of the Coast. ... DVD Television Games are standalone games that can be played on set-top DVD players. ... The Dvorak Card Game is a customizable card game. ...


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Early Arabic chess literature - Earthdawn - Edmund Hoyle - El Grande - Elfenland - Elo rating system - Endgame - Entropy (board game) - Epaminondas (game) - Eton Wall Game - Europa (wargame) - Evaluation function - Evolutionarily stable strategy - Example Scrabble tournament game - Experience point - Exquisite corpse With the sole exception of two works in Middle Persian (the Karnamak and the Chatranj Namak) all of the early works (pre-1000) on chess were written by Arabic authors. ... It has been suggested that Windling be merged into this article or section. ... Edmond Hoyle (sometimes Edmund Hoyle) (1672 - August 29, 1769) Trained to become a barrister, in 1741 Hoyle began working as a Whist tutor to members of high society. ... El Grande is a German-style board game designed in 1996. ... Elfenland is a German-style board game designed by Alan R. Moon and published by Amigo Games in Germany and Rio Grande Games in the United States in 1998. ... The ELO rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as chess and Go. ... In chess, the endgame (or end game or ending) refers to the stage of the game when there are few pieces left on the board. ... There are at least two board games known under the name Entropy, one invented by Eric Solomon and published in 1977, the other by Augustine Carreno in 1994. ... Epaminondas is an abstract strategy board game invented by Robert Abbott and originally introduced in Sid Sacksons A Gamut of Games as Crossings. ... The Eton Wall Game, which originates from Eton College, is a less-than-vigorous hybrid of rugby union and football played on a strip of ground 5 metres wide and 110 metres long next a slightly curved brick wall (which was erected in 1717). ... Europa is a series of board wargames planned to cover combat over the entire European Theater of World War II at a scale that represents units as divisions and game turns that represent two weeks of time. ... An evaluation function, also known as heuristic evaluation function or static evaluation function by game-playing programs to estimate the value or goodness of a position in the minimax algorithm. ... In game theory, an evolutionarily stable strategy (or ESS; also evolutionary stable strategy) is a strategy which if adopted by a population cannot be invaded by any competing alternative strategy. ... The following game of Scrabble was played between John Chew and Zev Kaufman on June 15, 1997, as part of an NSA-sanctioned tournament in Toronto, Canada. ... Experience points (often abbreviated as exp or xp) are a representation of a characters advancement and improvement in skills in role-playing games. ... Exquisite corpse (also known as exquisite cadaver or rotating corpse) is a method by which a collection of words or images are collectively assembled, the result being known as the exquisite corpse or cadavre exquis in French. ...


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Fairy chess piece - Family games - Fanorona - The Fantasy Trip - Fan translation - Fédération Internationale des Échecs - Fictionary - Fifty move rule - First-person shooter - Fischer Random Chess - Five Field Kono - Fiver - Flight simulator - Fluxx - Flying Buffalo Incorporated (F.B.I) - Fork (chess) - Four fours - France 1940 - Francis Willughby's Book of Games - FreeCell - Freeform - Fundamental theorem of poker A fairy chess piece or unorthodox chess piece is a chess piece not used in conventional chess, but used in certain chess variants and some chess problems. ... A Family Game is a video game console, usually with several games built-in, with the outer shell designed to mimic popular consoles such as the Atari 2600, the Famicom, the Sega MegaDrive/Genesis or the Sony PlayStation. ... Fanorona is a board game indigenous to Madagascar and derived from Alquerque. ... The Fantasy Trip is a role-playing game that was designed by Steve Jackson and was published by Metagaming. ... Fan translation being done from English into Finnish using the Japanese version as reference. ... The Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation is an international organization that connects the various national chess federations around the world. ... Fictionary, also known as the Dictionary Game, is a word game in which players guess the definition of an obscure word. ... The fifty move rule in chess states that a player can claim a draw if no capture has been made and no pawn has been moved in the last fifty consecutive moves. ... Doom, one of the games that defined the first-person shooter genre. ... One of 960 possible starting positions (#177). ... Five Field Kono is a board game played in Korea with the board shown below, B----B----B----B----B | | | | | | | | | | B----*----*----*----B | | | | | | | | | | *----*----*----*----* | | | | | | | | | | W----*----*----*----W | | | | | | | | | | W----W----W----W----W B and W indicate the counters of the players playing black and white respectively. ... Look up Fiver on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Fiver is most commonly a slang term used to refer to a denomination of currency, most notably: A five-dollar bill A five-pound note Fiver is a term for Zaydi Shiite Muslims, who disagree with the majority of Shiites on the... Interior Cockpit of a modern Flight Simulator A flight simulator is a system that tries to replicate, or simulate, the experience of flying an airplane as closely and realistically as possible. ... Fluxx is a card game. ... Flying Buffalo Incorporated (FBI) is a company based in Scottsdale, Arizona that offers roleplaying games, gaming materials, and play-by-mail gaming services. ... The white knight is forking the black king and rook. ... Four fours is a mathematical game. ... Francis Willughbys Book of Games is a book published in 2003 that printed for the first time a transcription of a seventeenth-century manuscript written by Francis Willughby that was held in the library of the University of Nottingham. ... FreeCell is a solitaire card game similar to Klondike. ... The word freeform may refer to: Freeform art - an approach to the arts, particularly sculpture and painting but also applicable to other creative endeavors such as: Freeform hardcore, a subgenre of the hardcore genre of electronic dance music Freeform (radio format), a radio station programming format Freeform, a type of... The fundamental theorem of poker is a principle first articulated by David Sklansky that he believes expresses the essential nature of poker as a game of decision-making in the face of incomplete information. ...


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Gambling - Game - Game basic topics - Game classification - Game clock - Game controller - Game Critics Awards - Game design - Game designer - Game Developer Magazine - Game engine - GameFAQs - Game of chance - Game of Circ - Image:Game of life blinker.png - Image:Game of life block.png - Image:Game of life boat.png - Image:Game of life diehard.png - Image:Game of life glider.png - Image:Game of life glider gun.png - Image:Game of life infinite1.png - Image:Game of life infinite2.png - Image:Game of life infinite3.png - Image:Game of life lwss.png - Image:Game of life methuselah.png - Image:Game of life toad.png - Game of logic - Game of Mill - Games of physical skill - Game of status - Game of the Goose - Game play - Game port - Game producer - Game programmer - Game semantics - Game show - Game theory - Game tree - Game-tree complexity - Gamemaster - The Games Machine - Games played with Go equipment - Games Workshop - A Gamut of Games - Gen Con - Generalized game - Generic game - German game designer - German-style board game - Global Diplomacy - GNU Chess - GNU Go - Go (board game) - Go handicap - Gomoku - Image:Goone1.png - Go players Go proverb - Go Seigen - God game - Gonnect - Gother Than Thou - Grand chess - Greek electronic game ban - Grid chess - Group-dynamic game - Guessing game - GURPS - Gwat Pai Gambling has had many different meanings depending on the cultural and historical context in which it is used. ... The neutrality of this article is disputed. ... This article is about a recreational activity. ... Games may be classified and sub-classified according to many different criteria. ... A typical chess clock. ... A game controller is an input device used to control a video game. ... The Game Critics Awards for the Best of E³ have been held annually at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E³) since 1998. ... Game design is the process of designing the content, background and rules of a game. ... A game designer is a person who designs games. ... Game Developer magazine is a monthly periodical for the video game industry. ... A game engine is the core software component of a video game. ... GameFAQs main page in September 2004. ... A game of chance is a game whose outcome is strongly influenced by some randomizing device, and upon which contestants frequently wager money. ... The Irish mathematical physicist, John Lighton Synge, created the two-person zero-sum game (see Game theory) of Circ to emphasize the circular reasoning which is implicit in the defining process of any standard dictionary. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... This public domain image was created for the Wikipedia. ... This public domain image was created for the Wikipedia. ... This public domain image was created for the Wikipedia. ... This public domain image was created for the Wikipedia. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... Headline text --156. ... The games of logic are a supergroup of mathematical games, mind sport and some strategy games that are played against a pseudo artificial intelligence. ... Nine mens morris, also known as Mills, Merrills, is a two-player strategy game with a long history in Europe. ... Games of physical skill or dexterity test the body more than the brain, although strategic thinking may be required. ... A simulation game (also known as a game of status or mixed game) is a mixture of a game of skill, a game of chance and a game of strategy, which results in a simulation of a complex structure (like a stock exchange, or civilisation flux). ... The Game of the Goose is thought to be the prototype for many of the commercial European race games of recent centuries. ... Game play (or gameplay) includes all player experiences during the interaction with game systems, especially formal games. ... The game port is the traditional connection for video game input devices on an x86-based PCs. ... A game producer is the person in charge of overseeing development of a video or computer game. ... John Carmack is one of the most widely recognized and influential game programmers. ... Game semantics (German: dialogische Logik) is an approach to the semantics of logic that grounds the concepts of truth or validity on game-theoretic concepts, such as the existence of a winning strategy for a player. ... A game show is a radio or television program, involving members of the public or celebrities, sometimes as part of a team, playing a game, perhaps involving answering quiz questions, for points or prizes. ... Game theory is a branch of applied mathematics that studies strategic situations where players choose different actions in an attempt to maximize their returns. ... In game theory, a game tree is a directed graph whose nodes are positions in a game and whose edges are moves. ... In game theory, game complexity is a measure of the complexity of a game. ... A Gamemaster or Game Master (often abbreviated as GM) is a player in a multiplayer game who acts as organizer, arbitrator, and officiant in rules situations. ... The Games Machine was a popular videogame magazine that was published from the late 1980s until the early 1990s in Britain. ... Many games can be played with go equipment: a supply of white and black stones and a board with 19×19 intersections, and many more can be played with minor modification. ... The style of the Games Workshop logo is copied in the titles of many of their games Games Workshop (GW) is a British game production and retailing company. ... A Gamut of Games, written by Sid Sackson and first published in 1969, contains rules for a large number of pencil-and-paper, card, and board games; many of the games in the book had never before been published. ... Gen Con is the largest and most prominent gaming convention in North America. ... In computational complexity theory, a generalized game is a game that has been generalized so that it can be played on a board of any size. ... A generic role-playing game system provides rule mechanics for any setting (world or environment or genre). ... A German game designer is not necessarily a game designer who is German, but someone who designs German-style board games. ... German-style board games, also known as Euro games, designer games, family strategy games or hobby board games, are family games designed to appeal simultaneously to older children and adults. ... Global Diplomacy (GD) and Age of Discovery (AoD) are two variants of a play-by-email wargame, run by E-Mail Games. ... GNU Chess is a computer program for playing chess, and is thus a computer chess program. ... Logo by Ebba Berggren GNU Go is a free software program by the Free Software Foundation that plays Go. ... Go is a strategic, two-player board game originating in ancient China between 2000 BC and 200 BC. Go is a popular game in East Asia. ... In an even game of Go, the board is empty, and Black plays first. ... Gomoku, go-moku, or gobang (Japanese: 五目並べ, Gomoku Narabe, five points) is a board game traditionally played with go pieces (black and white stones) on a go board (19x19 intersections). ... A list of well-known champion players of the game of go: Dosaku (1645-1702) One of the greatest players of the Edo period, and the first Japanese go saint; an important influence on go theory. ... Go proverbs are words of perceived wisdom relating to the game of Go, generally used to assist weaker players in determining a good move during a game. ... Go Seigen Wu Qingyuan (呉清源 Wú QÄ«ngyuán or Wu2 Qing1 yuan2, born May 19, 1914) known to the world as the Japanese Go Seigen, is considered by many to be the greatest player of the game of go in the 20th century. ... A God game is a computer game that lets you create and control the lives of virtual people or worlds. ... Gonnect is a board game, which could be described as the lovechild of Go and Hex. ... Cover of the first edition Gother Than Thou: The Most Pretentious Card Game Ever Made is a card game that parodies the goth subculture. ... Grand Chess is a chess variant invented by Christian Freeling. ... In 2002 Greece, in an attempt to fight illegal gambling, passed the ambiguous and controversial law 3037/2002 which was seen by many to ban all electronic games, including those running on home computers. ... Devised by Walter Stead in 1953, grid chess is a chess variant played with a grid board. ... Group-dynamic games are games that teach and reflect certain group dynamics as well as interpersonal relationships: relationships between two people relationships between a person and a group relationships between groups Group-dynamic games are usually designed for the specific purpose of furthering personal development and character building. ... A guessing game is a game in which the object is to guess some kind of information, such as a word, a phrase, a title, or the location of an object. ... GURPS (Generic Universal RolePlaying System), created by Steve Jackson Games in 1986, is designed specifically to be a role-playing game that adapts to any imaginary gaming environment. ... external link an article dated back to 1893 Categories: Game stubs ...


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H Game - Halma - Hanafuda - Handheld game console - Hangman - Haihowak - Haihowak International Federation - Larry Harris (game designer) - Hasbro - Hasbro's Game of Life - Havannah (game) - Hearts - Hex (game) - High Score!: The Illustrated History of Electronic Games - History of Board Games - History of the video game - Honinbo Shusaku - Horizon effect - Huff (Board games) - Hypermodernism - Hypertext group games An H game is a Japanese video or computer game that features pornographic content, usually in the form of anime-style artwork. ... Halma (from the Greek word meaning jump) is a board game invented in 1883 by an English surgeon, Howard Monks. ... Hanafuda cards Hanafuda (花札) is a Japanese gambling card game which evolved from Western playing cards. ... A handheld game console is a lightweight, portable, electronic device for playing video games. ... Hangman is a paper and pencil guessing game for two players. ... Haihowak (Polish name: hejhoÅ‚ek) is a card game played with ordinary playing cards. ... Haihowak Haihowak (Polish name: hejhołek) is a card game played with ordinary playing cards. ... A game designer most famous for creating the game Axis & Allies. ... The Hasbro logo uses a smile to indicate the carefree nature of its products. ... See also the cellular automaton Game of Life devised by mathematician John Conway. ... Havannah is an abstract strategy board game invented by Christian Freeling. ... Hearts could be: Hearts, a four-player card game. ... Hex is a board game played on a hexagonal grid, usually in the shape of a 10 by 10 or a 11 by 11 rhombus. ... High Score!: The Illustrated History of Electronic Games is a book published in April 2002 by McGraw-Hill Osborne Media. ... A board game is any game played with a premarked surface, with counters or pieces that are moved across the board. ... Although the history of computer and video games spans almost five decades, computer and video games themselves did not become part of the popular culture until the late 1970s. ... Honinbō Shūsaku (本因坊秀策) (born as Kuwabara Torajirō (桑原虎次郎 Kuwabara Torajirō), June 6, 1829 - August 10, 1862) is considered by many to be the greatest player of the golden age of Go in the mid-19th century. ... The horizon effect (or horizon problem) is an unsolved problem in AI. When searching a large game tree (for instance using minimax or alpha-beta pruning) it is often unfeasible to search the entire tree, so the tree is normally only partially searched. ... In a number of board games, capturing an opponents piece is compulsory when it is possible. ... The Queens Indian Defence is a hypermodern opening Hypermodernism is a school of chess thought which advocates controlling the centre of the board with distant pieces rather than with pawns, thus inviting the opponent to occupy the centre with pawns which can then become objects of attack. ... Hypertext group games are computer adventure games which are collaboratively played and created. ...


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Icehouse (game) - Icehouse pieces - Immortal game - Immortal game - Impartial game - Independent Games Festival - Interactive Achievement Awards - International Olympic Committee - Internet game - Internet Top 100 Games List - Iterated prisoner's dilemma Icehouse is a turnless abstract strategy game invented by Andrew Looney and John Cooper. ... Icehouse pieces are pyramid-shaped gaming pieces invented by Andrew Looney and John Cooper in 1986, originally for use in the game of Icehouse. ... The immortal game was a chess game played in 1851 by Adolf Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritzky. ... In combinatorial game theory, an impartial game is a game in which the allowable moves depend only on the position and not on which of the two players is currently moving, and where the payoffs are symmetric. ... The Game Developers Conference has annually hosted the Independent Games Festival (IGF) since 1999 to reward innovative games produced by independent video game developers as well as full-time college and high school students. ... The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) has been hosting the Interactive Achievement Awards for video game publication anually since 1998. ... The International Olympic Committee is an organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin in 1894 to reinstate the Ancient Olympic Games held in Greece, and organise this sports event every four years. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Internet Top 100 Games List is a ranked list of non-computer games, mostly board and card games. ... Will the two prisoners cooperate to minimise total loss of liberty or will one of them, trusting the other to cooperate, betray him so as to go free? The prisoners dilemma is a type of non-zero-sum game. ...


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Steve Jackson (US) - Steve Jackson (UK) - Janggi - Japanese games - Java - Joker (playing card) - Jotto Steve Jackson (born ~1952) founded Steve Jackson Games in the early 1980s. ... Steve Jackson is a games reviewer and writer is one of the best known authors in the gaming industry. ... Janggi (Korean hangul: 장기; hanja: 將棋; revised: janggi; McCune-Reischauer: changgi) is one of a family of strategic board games of which Western chess, Japanese shogi, and the more similar Chinese xiangqi are also members. ... This is a list of traditional Japanese games. ... Java board game is a German-style board game which provides the atmosphere of the island of Java on a hexagonal board. ... The Fool in Tarot of Marseille The Joker is a special card found in most modern decks of playing cards. ... Jotto (or Giotto) is a word game invented in 1955 by Morton M. Rosenfeld. ...


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Kensington - Kill Doctor Lucky - Killer heuristic - King-maker scenario- Reiner Knizia - Korean chess - Kriegspiel Kensington is a board game devised by Brian Taylor and Peter Forbes in 1979, named after an affluent borough of London. ... Kill Doctor Lucky is a board game designed by James Ernest and released in 1996 by Cheapass Games. ... In computer chess, the killer heuristic is a technique for improving the efficiency of alpha-beta pruning. ... A kingmaker scenario, in a game of three or more players, is an endgame situation where a losing player, him- or herself unable to win, has the capacity to determine which player among others is the winner. ... Reiner Knizia is a prolific board game designer. ... Janggi is one of a family of strategic board games of which chess and xiangqi are also members, which originated from the 6th century Indian game of chaturanga or a close relative thereof. ... Kriegspiel is a historical term used to discuss wargames conducted by the Prussian and German military. ...


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L Game - The Game Of Lands - Letter game - Level (computer and video games) - Level designer - Level editor - Lewis chessmen - Liar dice/Liar's dice - Lines of Action - Live action role-playing game - LIVE/WIRE - Ian Livingstone - Loaded dice - Localized versions of the Monopoly game - Andrew Looney - Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Game - Lost Cities game - Lucena position - Ludic - Ludo - Ludus Duodecim Scriptorum The L game was invented by Edward De Bono, intended to illustrate lateral thinking. ... A letter game involves the exchange of written letters, or e-mails, between two or more participants. ... In computer and video games, a level (sometimes called a stage, course, episode, round, world, map, wave, board, phase, or landscape) is a separate area in a games virtual world, in modern games typically representing a specific location such as a building or a city. ... A level designer is a person who creates levels, challenges or missions for computer and/or video games using a specific set of programs. ... UnrealEd is the level editor for Epics Unreal series of first-person shooters. ... The Lewis chessmen top: king, queen, bishop middle: knight, rook, pawn bottom: closeup of queen The Lewis chessmen belong to one of the few complete medieval chess sets that have survived until today. ... Liars dice (liar dice) is a dice game for two or more players. ... Liars dice (liar dice) is a dice game for two or more players. ... Lines of Action is a two-player abstract strategy board game invented by Claude Soucie. ... A live action role-playing game (or LARP as it is often known) is a form of role-playing game where the participants perform some or all of the physical actions of the characters they are playing. ... LIVE/WIRE was a system for playing live-action role-playing games at conventions that was popular in 1990s. ... Ian Livingstone (born December 1949 in Prestbury, England) is an English fantasy author and entrepreneur. ... Rolling dice Dice (the plural of the word die, probably from the Latin dare: to give) are, in general, small polyhedral objects with the faces marked with numbers or other symbols, thrown in order to choose one of the faces randomly. ... The board game Monopoly has been produced for specific markets, with the place names being localized for countries, cities and areas including: Argentina: El Estanciero, with streets changed for estancias located in different Argentinean provinces. ... Andrew J. Looney (1963– ), better known as Andy Looney is an award-winning game designer, writer, cartoonist, photographer, computer programmer, Eagle Scout, activist, and self-declared Emperor of the Universe. ... The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Game, released by Decipher Inc. ... Lost Cities is a cross between a board game and a card game, designed in 1999 by game designer Reiner Knizia and published by both Kosmos and Rio Grande Games. ... The Lucena position is one of the most famous and important positions in chess endgame theory. ... Ludic (adjective) means literally playful, and refers to any philosophy where play is the prime purpose of life. ... A ludo game Ludo (from Latin ludus, game) is a simple childrens board game for two to four players, in which the players race their four tokens from start to finish according to die rolls. ... Ludus Duodecim Scriptorum was a board game popular during the time of the Roman Empire, also known as XII Scripta. ...


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MMOFPS - MMORPG - MMORTS - MUD - Macintosh games - Madrasi chess - Magic: The Gathering - Magic: The Gathering video games - Mahjong - Makruk - Mak-yek - Man, Myth & Magic - Mana - Mancala - Massively multiplayer online game - Mastermind (board game) - Mathematical game - Maven - Maze of Games - Mazes and Monsters - Mechanical puzzle - Mehen - Microsoft Puzzle Hunt - Middle Earth Role Play - Image:Mill board.png - Image:Mill board diagonal.png - Image:Mill position.png - Sid Meier - Mind sport - Mind Sports Organisation - Minimax algorithm - Minishogi - Misère game - MIT Mystery Hunt - Mnk-games - Monopoly game - Monster chess - Mornington Crescent - Mr. Three - Multi-genre game - Multiplayer - Harold James Ruthven Murray Categories: Stub | Massively multiplayer online games ... Players interacting in Ultima Online. ... Categories: Stub | Computer and video game genres | Massively multiplayer online real-time strategy games ... In computer gaming, a MUD (multi-user dungeon, dimension, or sometimes domain) is a multi-player computer game that combines elements of role-playing games, hack and slash style computer games, and social instant messaging chat rooms. ... Madrasi chess is a chess variant invented in 1979 by A. J. Karawatkar which uses the conventional rules of chess with the addition that when a piece is attacked by a piece of the same type but opposite colour (for example, a black queen attacking a white queen) it is... Magic: The Gathering (colloq. ... Several Magic: The Gathering video games exist for multiple systems. ... Mahjong (Chinese: 麻将 (Mandarin májiàng; Cantonese màhjeung) or 麻雀 Mandarin máquè, Cantonese màhjeuk); other common English spellings include mahjongg, majiang, and hyphenated forms such as mah-jong or mah-jongg) is a game for four players that originated in China. ... Makruk, starting position. ... Mak-yek is a board game played in Siam and Malaysia (under the name Apit-sodok) on an 8 by 8 board by two players each having sixteen pieces or men. ... Man, Myth & Magic is a fantasy role-playing game, using paper and dice, set in the ancient world, drawing from legends dating from approximately 4000 B.C. to 1000 A.D. It was first published in February 1982 by an American company called Yaquinto. ... This article is in need of attention. ... A foldable, wooden Mancala board Mancala is a family of board games played around the world, sometimes called sowing games or count and capture games, which comes from the general gameplay. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Mastermind is a simple code-breaking board game for two players, invented in 1970 by Mordecai Meirowitz, an Israeli postmaster and telecommunications expert. ... Mathematical games include many topics which are a part of recreational mathematics, but can also cover topics such as the mathematics of games, and playing games with mathematics. ... A maven (also mavin or mayvin) is an expert in a particular field, usually one who is self-appointed and who seeks to pass his knowledge on to others. ... The Maze of Games is Americas largest annual puzzlehunt, and is held at the Gen Con and Origins gaming conventions. ... Mazes and Monsters is a made-for-TV movie about a group of college students and their interest in the eponymous role-playing game (RPG). ... A mechanical puzzle is a puzzle presented as a set of mechanically interlinked pieces. ... In Ancient Egypt, Mehen is both what appears to be a mythological character, and a board game. ... A puzzlehunt in the same vein as the MIT Mystery Hunt or The Game, The Microsoft Puzzlehunt is a quasi-annual Microsoft tradition dating back to just before the turn of the century. ... Middle-earth Role Playing (MERP) was a subset of the Rolemaster role-playing game rules set in Tolkiens Middle-earth and published by Iron Crown Enterprises (I.C.E.). The system was somewhat like Dungeons & Dragons with character classes and levels. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Sid Meier is one of the most successful game programmers and game designers ever, with game series whose chronologies span 20 years. ... A game of mental skill (sometimes called a mind sport) is a game where training of muscles and skill in controlling them offers insignificant advantage, and mental abilities are paramount. ... Categories: Game stubs | Organization stubs | Organizations ... Minimax is a method in decision theory for minimizing the expected maximum loss. ... Minishogi (小さい将棋, chiisai shōgi, little chess) is a modern variant of shogi (Japanese chess). ... A misère version of a game is a game that is played according to its conventional rules, except that it is played to lose; that is, the winner is the one who loses according to the normal game rules. ... The IAP Mystery Hunt is a puzzle competition held each January at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ... // Overview The mnk-game (or m,n,k-game) is an abstract board game in which two players take turns in placing a stone of their color on an m×n board, the winner being the player who first gets k stones of their own color in a row, horizontally... This article is about the board game. ... Monster Chess. ... The Mornington Crescent tube station, the games namesake Mornington Crescent is a game of strategy created and popularized by the BBC Radio 4 programme Im Sorry I Havent a Clue. ... Mr. ... A multi-genre role-playing game allows the exploration of different genres in their own settings with the same character, or different versions or incarnations of the same character. ... Multiplayer is a mode of play for computer and video games in which multiple people can play the same game at the same time. ... Harold James Ruthven Murray (June 24, 1868 - May 16, 1955) born in Peckham Rye, London, son of James Murray (editor of the Oxford English Dictionary), the eldest of eleven children, was most prominent as a chess historian. ...


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Nard - Nash equilibrium - Neopets - Newcomb's paradox - Next Game, Inc. - Aron Nimzowitsch - Nine Men's Morris - Ninuki-renju - The No Game - Non-zero-sum - Non-zero-sum game - Nuclear War - Null-move heuristic - Number of move sequences Nard can be used to mean the following things: Nard, the ancient Persian board game Nard, the flower and its fragrant oil. ... In game theory, the Nash equilibrium (named after John Nash who proposed it) is a kind of optimal collective strategy in a game involving two or more players, where no player has anything to gain by changing only his or her own strategy. ... Screenshot of the Neopets homepage viewed with Mozilla Firefox Neopets is an online virtual pet simulation game. ... Newcombs Paradox, also referred to as Newcombs Problem, is a thought experiment involving a game between two players, one of whom purports to be able to predict the future. ... Next Game, Inc. ... Aron Nimzowitsch (also Nimzovich or Niemzowitsch) (November 7, 1886, Riga – March 16, 1935, Denmark) was a Latvian chess grandmaster. ... Nine Mens Morris is a two-player strategy game with a long history in Europe. ... Pente is a board game created in 1978 by Gary Gabrel. ... The No Game is a party game with only one real rule. ... Zero-sum describes a situation in which a participants gain (or loss) is exactly balanced by the losses (or gains) of the other participant(s). ... Zero-sum describes a situation in which a participants gain (or loss) is exactly balanced by the losses (or gains) of the other participant(s). ... Nuclear War is a card game designed by Douglas Malewicki, and originally published in 1966. ... In computer chess programs, the null-move heuristic is a heuristic technique used to enhance the speed of the alpha-beta pruning algorithm. ...


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Olympic medalists - Ombre - Omega chess - Omweso - Oni game - Open gaming - Option - Origins Awards - Origins of chess - Outburst - Oware - Owari (game) Art competitions Athletics (men) Athletics (women) Baseball Basketball Biathlon Boxing Gymnastics Sailing Swimming (men) Swimming (women) Olympic medalists in tennis See also Olympic Games IOC country codes list of prizes, medals, and awards Categories: Olympic medalists | Olympic medals | Olympic competitors ... Ombre was a card game played by three players with a deck of 40 cards. ... Omega Chess is a commercial chess variant designed by Daniel MacDonald in Toronto. ... Omweso, sometimes shortened to Mweso, is a mancala popular in Uganda. ... Oni is a third-person action game developed by Bungie Studios (now part of Microsoft), and released in 2000. ... Open gaming is the movement within the amateur and professional role-playing game industry that is somewhat analogous to open source movement. ... In finance, an option is a contract whereby one party (the holder or buyer) has the right but not the obligation to exercise a feature of the contract (the option) on or before a future date (the exercise date or expiry). ... The Origins Awards, presented by the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design, are presented at the Origins International Game Expo for outstanding work in the game industry. ... Persian youth playing chess with two suitors Illustration to the Haft Awrang of Jami, in the story A Father Advises his Son About Love Freer and Sackler Galleries, The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. The origins of chess is one of the most controversial areas of board gaming history. ... Owari game from Cameroon. ...


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Pac-Man - Pachisi - Pagat.com - Pai gow - Parcheesi - Parchis - Parchisi - Parques - Partizan game - Party game - Patolli - Patrol Chess - Pay Day - Payoff matrix - PC games - Peg solitaire - Pencil and paper game - Pente - Pentominoes - Perfect play - Phutball - Pick-up Sticks - Pick-up sticks (Haida) - Pictionary - Pie rule - Play-by-mail game - Player (game) - Player's Handbook - Player killer - Playground game - Playing card - Playtest - Ply - Poker - Poker strategy - Pool checkers - Portable Game Notation - Prisoner's dilemma - Progressive chess - Puerto Rico (game) - Puzzlehunt - Puzzles Pac-Man is an arcade game developed by Namco and licensed for distribution by Midway Games in 1979. ... a pachisi board Pachisi is a board game thought to originate in India; it is described as the national game of India. ... Pagat. ... A set of Chinese dominoes. ... Parcheesi is an American adaptation of the Indian Cross and Circle game Pachisi. ... Parchís is a board game similar to Ludo, Parques and Parcheesi. ... Parchisi (also spelt Parcheesi) is a simplifed commercial version of the Indian game of Pachisi that was first published in 1860 in the USA. The generic form of this game is known as Ludo. ... Parqués is a Colombian board game of the Cross and Circle family of the same style as the Indian Pachisi. ... In combinatorial game theory, a game is partisan or partizan if it is not impartial. ... Trivial Pursuit is a popular party game. ... Patolli is one of the oldest games in pre-Hispanic Latin America. ... Patrol chess is a chess variant in which captures can be made and checks given only if the capturing or checking piece is guarded (or patrolled) by a friendly unit. ... Pay day is an informal term for the date in which one gets a paycheck from his employer. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with normal form game. ... This computer/video game related article needs cleanup. ... English peg solitaire board European peg solitaire board Peg Solitaire is a game for one player involving movement of pegs on a board with holes. ... Games that can be played with only pencil and paper: Battleship was played as a pencil and paper game, long before Hasbro came out with a board game version. ... Pente is a board game created in 1978 by Gary Gabrel. ... A pentomino is a polyomino composed of five (Greek πέντε / pente) congruent squares, connected orthogonally. ... In game theory, perfect play is the behavior or strategy of a player which leads to the best possible outcome for that player. ... Phutball (short for philosophers football) is a two-player board game described in Elwyn Berlekamp, John Conway, and Richard Guys Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays. ... Pick-up sticks (or pick-a-stick) is a game of physical skill in which sticks have to be removed from a pile without disturbing the remaining ones. ... Haida pick-up sticks exist in two sorts. ... Pictionary is a team board game created by Rob Angel in which players try to identify specific words which their teammates drawings try to illustrate under time pressure. ... The pie rule, sometimes referred to as the swap rule, is a meta-rule commonly used in abstract strategy board games like Hex and Havannah. ... Play by mail games are games, of any type, played through postal mail or e-mail. ... A player of a game is a participant therein. ... Cover of the 8th printing of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Players Handbook The Players Handbook (in previous editions of the game, Players Handbook) is a book of rules for the seminal fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons. ... Player versus player, or PvP, is a type of combat in MMORPGs, MUDs and other computer role-playing games pitting a players skill against anothers, where the goal is ultimately the death of the opponents player character. ... A playground game is a game or pastime carried out in a playground. ... Set of 52 playing cards Some typical Anglo-American playing cards. ... A playtest is the process by which a game designer tests a new game for bugs and improvements before bringing it to market. ... Consider the word reply - the response, or comeback, to an utterance. ... Wikibooks Poker has more about this subject: Poker Poker is a card game, the most popular of a class of games called vying games, in which players with fully or partially concealed cards make wagers into a central pot, which is awarded to the remaining player or players with the... There are several excellent books on poker strategy, and this article will only attempt to deal with the basics that must be mastered by the beginner. ... Pool checkers, or also called American pool checkers, is a variant of draughts, in which men can jump backwards and there are flying kings. ... Portable Game Notation (.PGN) is a computer-processable format for recording chess games (both the moves and related data); many chess programs recognize this extremely popular format due to its accessibility by ordinary ascii editors, including word processors capable of importing and exporting plain ascii. ... Will the two prisoners cooperate to minimise total loss of liberty or will one of them, trusting the other to cooperate, betray him so as to go free? Many points in this article may be difficult to understand without a background in the elementary concepts of Game Theory. ... Progressive chess is a chess variant in which players, rather than just making one move per turn, play progressively longer series of moves. ... Puerto Rico is a German board game published in 2002 in which players assume the roles of colonial governors on the island of Puerto Rico during the age of Caribbean ascendancy. ... A live puzzle game where teams compete to solve a series of puzzles in a site or multiple sites. ... A puzzle is a problem or enigma presented as entertainment; that is written down, acted out, etc. ...


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Qubic - Quizbowl - Quoridor a selfmade Qubic game Qubic is a four-in-a-row game played in a 4×4×4 matrix. ... Quizbowl (also known as Quiz-bowl, Quiz Bowl, or Academic Bowl) is a family of games of questions and answers on all topics of human knowledge, commonly played in high school and college. ... Quoridor is a modern two-player abstract strategy game. ...


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Racetrack - Real-time card game - Real-time strategy - Renai game - Renju - Reversi - Revoke - Rhythmomachy - Richard's Play By Email Server - Risk game - Risk 2210 - Risk Godstorm - Rock, Paper, Scissors - Roguelike - Role-playing game - Rolemaster - Roulette - Runequest - Rythmomachia Alternative use: Race track Racetrack is a pencil and paper game, nominally for two players. ... A real-time card game is a card game in which all players may act simultaneously (that is, in real-time). ... Age of Empires (1997), Invasion of an enemy A real-time strategy (RTS) game is a type of computer strategy game which does not have turns like conventional turn-based strategy video or board games. ... A renai game (恋愛ゲーム) is a Japanese adventure video game focusing on romantic interactions with anime characters, usually girls. ... Renju (Japanese:連珠) is the professional variant of Gomoku, a Japanese board game. ... Screen dump of WZebra 4. ... A revoke (also called a renege) is a violation of important rules regarding the play of tricks in trick-taking card games serious enough to render the round invalid. ... Rhythmomachy (or Rythmomachy, or Rithmomachia, or Arithmomachia, or sundry other variants; also the Philosophers Game) is an early European mathematical board game. ... Richards Play By Email Server is a server on the internet setup for the playing of various different online games in the play-by-email method. ... A typical game of Risk in play. ... Risk 2210 Risk 2210 A.D. is a futuristic Risk variant by Avalon Hill. ... Risk Godstorm is a Risk variant board game published by Avalon Hill and designed by Mike Selinker with developers Richard Baker and Michael Donais. ... Rock, Paper, Scissors chart Rock, Paper, Scissors (called Roshambo later in this article and also known by other names) is a popular hand game most often played by children. ... A roguelike is a computer game that borrows some of the elements of another computer game, 1980s Rogue. ... A role-playing game (RPG) is a type of game in which players assume the roles of characters and collaboratively create narratives. ... Rolemaster is a table-top role-playing game published by Iron Crown Enterprises. ... Roulette is a casino and gambling game (Roulette is a French word meaning small wheel). A croupier turns a round roulette wheel which has 37 or 38 separately numbered pockets in which a ball must land. ... RuneQuest is a fantasy role-playing game, first published in 1978 by Chaosium. ... Rythmomachia (or Rithmomachia) is a highly complex chess-like strategy game, requiring intellectual prowess and skill with numbers. ...


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Sid Sackson - Scissors (game) - Scotland Yard (board game) - Scrabble - Seefahrer- Mike Selinker - Senet - Seven Deadly Sins (board game) - Settlers of Catan - Shanghai solitaire - Shannon switching game - Shapley value - Shatranj - Shell game - Shogi - Shogi variant - Shortest proof game - Shove ha'penny - Shuffling playing cards - Shut the Box - Simulationist RPG - Singing game - Six Men's Morris - Skat - Slaughter rule - Smart Game Format - Snakes and ladders - Snap-dragon (game) - Solitaire - Solitaire terminology - Solved board games - Sorry! (game) - Spiel des Jahres - Spoken game - Sport - Sprague-Grundy theorem - Sprouts - Star (game) - StarCraft - Staring contest - State-space complexity - Stormbringer - Storytelling game - Stratego - Strategy & Tactics - Strategy game - Strategy-stealing argument String game - Subbuteo - Submarine simulator - Suit (cards) Sid Sackson (1920–November 6, 2002) was a significant American board game designer. ... Scissors is a party game. ... Scotland Yard (board game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Scrabble is a popular word board game, in which two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a 15x15 game board. ... The Seafarers of Catan is an expansion of the game Settlers of Catan. ... Mike Selinker is a game designer whose design credits include Pirates of the Spanish Main and Fightball with James Ernest, Axis & Allies Revised with Larry Harris, the Marvel Super Heroes Adventure Game, and Risk Godstorm. ... Nefertari playing Senet. ... The Seven Deadly Sins board game can be described as a New Age version of Snakes and Ladders. ... Settlers of Catan is a multiplayer board game invented by Klaus Teuber, first published in 1995 in Germany by Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co. ... Mahjong solitaire, also known as Shanghai solitaire, electronic or computerized mahjong, MahJong solitaire, solitaire Mahjong and, erroneously, as mahjong, is a solitaire matching game that uses a set of Mahjong tiles rather than cards. ... The Shannon switching game is an abstract strategy game for two players, invented by the father of information theory, Claude Shannon. ... In game theory, a Shapley value, named in honor of Lloyd Shapley, who introduced it in 1953, describes one approach to the fair allocation of gains obtained by cooperation among several actors. ... Shatranj. ... The shell game (also known as thimblerig) is a gambling game, often used to perpetrate fraud. ... Shogi (将棋 shōgi) is one of a family of strategic board games of which chess and xiangqi are also members, which derive from the 6th century Indian game of chaturanga or a close relative thereof. ... Many variants of shogi have been developed over the years, ranging from some of the largest chess-like games ever played, to some of the smallest. ... A shortest proof game (or simply proof game) is a type of chess problem in which the solver must construct a game, starting from the initial position in chess, which ends with a given position after a given number of moves (sometimes no number of moves is given and the... Shove hapenny (or shove halfpenny) is a traditional game with historic links to coinarama. ... The term shuffle can also refer to the act of dragging ones feet on the ground while walking, running, or dancing. ... Shut the Box, Tric-Trac, Canoga (or Batten down the Hatches) is a game of dice for one or more players, mostly played in a group of two to four (possibly for stakes, gambling). ... A simulationist role-playing game is a role-playing game where the rules try to simulate the way that things work in the real world, or at least the way that they could be thought of working. ... Singing games are games which pit multiple players against each other, or a single player against previous performances or a set standard. ... Six Mens Morris is a board game popular during the middle ages in England, France and Italy. ... Skat is (along with Doppelkopf) the most popular card game in Germany. ... A slaughter rule, also well known by the slightly more polite term mercy rule or less commonly, knockout rule, brings a sports event to an early end when one team has a very large and presumably insurmountable lead over the other team. ... The Smart Game Format, or SGF, is a computer file format used for storing records of board games including: Go Lines of Action Backgammon Hex Amazons Octi Gess Go is the game that is most commonly represented in this format. ... Snakes and ladders is a classic childrens board game played between 2 or more players on a playing board with numbered grid squares. ... Fanciful image of a dragon playing Snap-dragon, from Robert Chambers Book of Days (1879) Snap-dragon (also known as Flap-dragon, Snapdragon, or Flapdragon) was an English parlour game popular from about the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. ... Solitaire or patience is any of a family of single-player card games of a generally similar character, but varying greatly in detail. ... There are a number of common features in many solitaire (patience) games, such as building down and the foundations and tableau, used to simplify the description of new games. ... A two-player game can be solved on several levels. ... Sorry!, the slide pursuit game is a board game based on pachisi, sold by Parker Brothers. ... The Spiel des Jahres (German for Game of the Year) is arguably the most prestigious board game award for German-style board games. ... A spoken game is a game uses words instead of cards, boards, game pieces, or other paraphrenalia. ... In combinatorial game theory, the Sprague–Grundy theorem states that every impartial game is equivalent to a nimber. ... Sprouts is a pencil-and-paper game with interesting mathematical properties. ... Star, written as * or *1, is the value given to the combinatorial game {0 | 0}, where zero is the zero game. ... StarCraft (SC) is a real-time strategy computer game by Blizzard Entertainment. ... An illustration depicting a typical staring contest A staring contest is a competitive game in which two people stare into each others eyes and attempt to maintain eye contact for a longer period of time than their opponent. ... In game theory, game complexity is a measure of the complexity of a game. ... Stormbringer (Lancer, 1967) Stormbringer is the name of the infamous sword featured in a number of fantasy stories by the author Michael Moorcock. ... A storytelling game is a game where two or more persons collaborate on telling a spontaneous story. ... Initial set up of Stratego. ... Strategy & Tactics (S&T) is a wargaming magazine now published by Decision Games, notable for its groundbreaking move of publishing a complete new wargame in each issue. ... Strategy games are typically board games, video or computer games with the players decision-making skills having a high significance in determining the outcome. ... In combinatorial game theory, the Strategy-stealing argument is a general argument that shows, for many games, that the second player cannot have a winning strategy. ... A string figure is a pattern formed by weaving string around ones fingers, or sometimes between the fingers of multiple people. ... Subbuteo is a set of board games simulating team sports such as football, cricket, both codes of Rugby and hockey, although many people associate the name Subbuteo exclusively with the football version. ... A submarine simulator, or subsim for short, is a computer game in which the player commands a submarine. ... The four Anglo-American playing card suits: spades, hearts, clubs and diamonds. ...


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Table-top game - Tabletop role-playing game - Taboo (game) - Tables - Tabula - Tag - Tanbo - Tantrix - Tarocchi - Tarot - Technology tree - Klaus Teuber - Third Reich game - Three-dimensional chess Three Men's Morris - Three Musketeers (game) - Theory of Games and Economic Behaviour - Tiddlywinks - Tien Gow - Tigris and Euphrates - Tikal - Tile-based game - Time control - Timeline of video games - Titan game - Torres - Traditional game - Transposition table - Trick-taking game - Trix (card game) - Trivial Pursuit - Trouble - Tunnels and Trolls - Turn-based game - Twenty questions - TwixT Tabletop game is a general term used to refer to card games, board games, parlor games, role-playing games, miniatures wargames, tile-based games and other games that are normally played on a table or other flat surface. ... Tabletop role-playing games are a particular form of role-playing game. ... Taboo is a word guessing party game commercially available from Hasbro. ... Tables is a generic name given to a class of board games similar to Backgammon. ... Medieval illustration of Tabula players (13. ... TAG may stand for: Tag, German for day Techniques dAvant Garde, an investment company that sponsored WilliamsF1 in the early 1980s and funded the construction of turbocharged Porsche engines to Team McLaren in the mid 1980s. ... This article is about a board game. ... Tantrix is a hexagonal tile strategy game invented by Mike McManaway from New Zealand. ... Austrian-style 54-card Tarock hand: the Fool; six trumps; King, Queen, 1 of hearts. ... The French game of Tarot should not be confused with the use of Tarot cards for divination. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion, because: it is patent nonsense. ... Klaus Teuber Klaus Teuber (born 1952) is a well-known German designer of board games. ... Avalon Hill 3rd Edition cover Rise and Decline of the Third Reich or more commonly Third Reich is a classic grand strategy wargame covering the European theater of World War II designed by Don Greenwood and John Prados, and released in 1974 by Avalon Hill. ... Three-dimensional chess, or 3D chess, are examples of chess variants. ... Three mens morris is played on a three by three board (counting lines) and is a game of position. ... Three Musketeers is an abstract strategy board game by Haar Hoolim. ... Tiddlywinks is a game played with sets of small, thin discs (called winks) lying on a hard surface. ... See also Pai Gow Gwat Pai Che Deng External link an article dated back to 1893 A contemporary description Categories: Game stubs ... Tigris and Euphrates is a German strategy board game designed by Reiner Knizia and published in 1997 by Hans im Glück in German (as Euphrat und Tigris) and by Mayfair Games in English. ... Tikal is the largest of the ancient ruined cities of the Maya civilization. ... Physical games Tile-based games use small tiles as playing pieces for gambling or entertainment game. ... A time control is imposed on the tournament play of almost all two-player board games to ensure that neither player delays the game or gains an unfair advantage by thinking for an unduly long time. ... This is a timeline of computer and video games. ... Titan is an Avalon Hill fantasy board game for two to six players. ... Torres is a German-style board game designed by Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling and published in 1999 by FX Schmid in German and by Rio Grande Games in English. ... There are two types of traditional games: In games, a traditional game (historic) In computer and video games, a traditional game (computer) is a computer program adaption of a non-computer game (such as a board game or card game). ... In computer chess and other computer games, transposition tables are used to speed up the search of the game tree. ... hello ... Trivial Pursuit is a board game where progress is determined by a players ability to answer general knowledge or popular culture questions. ... Trouble is a simple, Pachisi-like race game in which players compete to be the first to send four markers all the way around a board, using dice to determine how far they move each turn. ... Tunnels and Trolls is a role-playing game that was first released in 1975. ... The Battle for Wesnoth turn-based strategy, released under the GPL. A turn-based game, also known as turn-based strategy, is a game where the game flow is partitioned in well-defined and visible parts, called turns or rounds. ... Twenty Questions is a popular spoken parlour game for two or more players. ... TwixT is a two-player abstract strategy board game invented by Alex Randolph. ...


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Ultimate Play The Game - Unclassified game - Universal Chess Interface - Upwords Ultimate Play The Game was the name used for the video games released by Ashby Computer Graphics (A.C.G). ... Various games do not fit into the classification given in Game. ... The Universal Chess Interface (UCI) is a open free, Chess communication protocol used to enable the engine portion of a chess program to communicate with a graphical user interface. ... Upwords is a board game invented by Elliot Rudell and published by Hasbro Games (a subsidiary of Hasbro). ...


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Vaporware - Video game - Video game adaptation (anime) - Video game console - Video game controversy - Video game developer - Video game genres - Video game industry - Video game industry practices - Video game music - Video game player - Video game publisher - Video game theory - Videogame type - Virtual universe Vaporware (also spelt vapourware) is software or hardware which is announced by a developer well in advance of release, but which then fails to emerge, either with or without a protracted development cycle. ... A computer game is a game composed of a computer-controlled virtual universe that players interact with in order to achieve a defined goal or set of goals. ... While not exactly a genre, there are numerous anime titles that are based on popular Japanese computer and video games. ... The Nintendo Gamecube is an example of a current generation video game console. ... It has been suggested that Eden-Nathan Zada be merged into this article or section. ... A video game developer is a software developer (a business or an individual) that creates computer or video games. ... This is an alphabetized listing of computer and video game genres with a brief description and examples from each genre. ... The computer and video game industry is the economic sector involved with the development, marketing and sale of video and computer games. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Computer and video games. ... Outrun (1986) is an arcade game with a memorable soundtrack. ... A video game player is a person who plays video games or sometimes computer games. ... Video game publishers are companies that publish video games that they have either developed internally or have had developed by a video game developer. ... Video game studies is the still-young field of analysing video games from a social science or humanities perspective. ... Videogame type refers to what kind of video game a program is. ... A virtual world is a computer-simulated environment intended for its users to inhabit and interact with via avatars. ...


W

John Wallis (publisher) - Wargame - Wikipedia:WikiProject Games (Talk) - Wild card - Wild card (poker) - Word game - World records in chess John Wallis, with his sons John Wallis Jr. ... Wargaming can be one of number of ways of exploring the effects of warfare without actual combat. ... In games using playing cards, a wild card is one that can be assigned any value its holder desires. ... Poker games may contain one or more cards designated as wild. ... A word game or word puzzle can be of several different types: Letter arrangement games, where the goal is to form words out of given letters: Anagrams -- both a simple game of rearranging letters and a linguistic recreation of making anagrams that seem to illuminate something about the original word... Some World records in the game of chess (as played in serious tournaments): // Longest game The longest tournament chess game ever to be played under modern time rules was Nikolić - Arsović, Belgrade, 1989, which lasted for 20 hours and 15 minutes with a 269 move draw. ...


X

XBoard - Xiang Qi Windows port of Xboard XBoard, also known as WinBoard on Microsoft operating systems, is a free graphical user interface client compatible with various chess server programs such as GNU Chess or Internet Chess Servers. ... Xiangqi (Chinese: 象棋; pinyin: xiàngqí, Wade-Giles: hsiang-chi; roughly pronounced shyang-chee; literally translated as elephant chess) is one of a family of strategic board games of which chess and shogi are also members. ...


Y

Y (game) - Yi Chang-ho Y is an abstract strategy board game invented by Craige Schensted (now Ea Ea) and Charles Titus. ... Lee Chang-ho (이창호 ; 李昌鎬), 9-dan, born 1975 is a Korean professional Go player, and is widely considered to be the current best player in the world. ...


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Zendo (game) - Zero game - Zero-player game - Zero-sum - Zero-sum fallacy - Zero-sum game - Zillions of Games - Zugzwang Zendo is a game of inductive logic designed by Kory Heath, in which the Master creates a rule and the Students attempt to discover it by building and studying arrangements of pyramids. ... In combinatorial game theory, the zero game is the game where neither player has any legal options. ... The term zero-player game commonly refers to games that have no human players, but also to games that have no players at all. ... Zero-sum describes a situation in which a participants gain (or loss) is exactly balanced by the losses (or gains) of the other participant(s). ... This article or section should include material from Lump of labour fallacy A zero-sum fallacy is a logical error committed by assuming that some quantity is constant when it is not. ... Zero-sum describes a situation in which a participants gain (or loss) is exactly balanced by the losses (or gains) of the other participant(s). ... Zillions of Games. ... In chess, zugzwang (German for compulsion to move, IPA: [tsuːk. ...


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