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Razzle (game) A diagram of a Razzle table, with eight marbles rolled to make a total of 27 points. Razzle (or Razzle-Dazzle) is a scam sometimes presented as a gambling game on carnival midways and historically, in the casinos of Havana, Cuba. [ 1] The player throws a number of marbles onto a grid of holes, and the numbers of those holes award ...
The most commonly-used Connect Four board size is 7 columns × 6 rows. Size variations include 5×4, 6×5, 8×7, 9×7, 10×7, 8×8, Infinite Connect-Four, [20] and Cylinder-Infinite Connect-Four. [21] Several versions of Hasbro's Connect Four physical gameboard make it easy to remove game pieces from the bottom one at a time.
In chess, the endgame tablebase, or simply tablebase, is a computerised database containing precalculated evaluations of endgame positions. Tablebases are used to analyse finished games, as well as by chess engines to evaluate positions during play. Tablebases are typically exhaustive, covering every legal arrangement of a specific selection of ...
Checkers[ note 1] ( American English ), also known as draughts ( / drɑːfts, dræfts /; British English ), is a group of strategy board games for two players which involve forward movements of uniform game pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over opponent pieces. Checkers is developed from alquerque. [ 1]
Senet. Senet or senat ( Ancient Egyptian: 𓊃𓈖𓏏𓏠, romanized : znt, lit. 'passing'; cf. Coptic ⲥⲓⲛⲉ /sinə/, 'passing, afternoon') is a board game from ancient Egypt that consists of ten or more pawns on a 30-square playing board. [ 1] The earliest representation of senet is dated to c. 2620 BCE from the Mastaba of Hesy-Re, [ 2 ...
Diamond game board with 73 playing spaces. Diamond game (Japanese: ダイヤモンドゲーム) is a variant of Chinese checkers played in South Korea and Japan. It uses the same jump rule as in Chinese checkers. The aim of the game is to enter all one's pieces into the star corner on the opposite side of the board, before opponents do the same.
A physical item included in the game. E.g. the box itself, the board, the cards, the tokens, zipper-lock bags, inserts, rule books, etc. See also equipment. counter. See piece. currency. A scoring mechanic used by some games to determine the winner, e.g. money ( Monopoly) or counters ( Zohn Ahl ).
Checkerboard. A checkerboard. A checkerboard ( American English) or chequerboard ( British English; see spelling differences) is a game board of checkered pattern on which checkers (also known as English draughts) is played. [ 1] Most commonly, it consists of 64 squares (8×8) of alternating dark and light color, typically green and buff ...