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  2. Spoof (game) - Wikipedia

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    Each player conceals and then reveals a number of coins in their hand. Spoof is a strategy game, typically played as a gambling game, often in bars and pubs where the loser buys the other participants a round of drinks. [1] The exact origin of the game is unknown, but one scholarly paper addressed it, and more general n-coin games, in 1959. [2]

  3. St. Petersburg paradox - Wikipedia

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    The St. Petersburg paradox or St. Petersburg lottery [1] is a paradox involving the game of flipping a coin where the expected payoff of the lottery game is infinite but nevertheless seems to be worth only a very small amount to the participants. The St. Petersburg paradox is a situation where a naïve decision criterion that takes only the ...

  4. Three men's morris - Wikipedia

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    This game is harder than both tic-tac-toe and three men's morris, but the first player has a way to win by taking the edge first. Alternatively, by taking the center or corner first, the game will be drawn. Tapatan, from Philippine, the same game with additional rule that pieces can only move to adjacent spaces.

  5. Penny football - Wikipedia

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    Penny football (also coin football, sporting coin, spoin, table football, tabletop football, [1] or shove ha'penny football [2]) is a coin game played upon a table top. The aim of the game is for a player to score more goals with the pennies than their opponent. [3] The game has been in existence since at least 1959. [4]

  6. Relationship anarchy - Wikipedia

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    Relationship anarchy (sometimes abbreviated RA) is the application of anarchist principles to intimate relationships.Its values include autonomy, anti-hierarchical practices, anti-normativity, and community interdependence.

  7. Tippit - Wikipedia

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    The point of the game is that the team hiding the Tippit wants to make the opposing team guess the wrong fist. The game gets very tactical particularly in choosing in which hand to place the tippit and particularly skillful players play like good poker players, hiding their emotions or even trying to mislead their opponents using facial gestures, body language and verbal banter.

  8. Play money - Wikipedia

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    At its most basic level, play money refers to faux paper money, but some games can include coins, or more abstract tokens representing more generic resources (such as energy). [ 2 ] : 25-26 Play money also encompasses virtual currencies in the complex in-game economies of MMORPGs , but again unlike older physical play money, in-game virtual ...

  9. Islamic marital practices - Wikipedia

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    “Abduction-game marriages” are characteristically in accord with the grooms’ requests, and are performed either by force or “legal fiction”. [36] This strategy of marrying a woman is actually a “courtship game” that expresses a Tausug man's masculinity and bravery. Although the woman has the right to refuse marrying her ...