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A game of Snatch in progress. Anagrams (also called Snatch or Snatch-words) is a fast-paced, non-turn-based Scrabble variant played without a board. The tiles are placed face-down in the middle of the table, and players take turns flipping a single tile, leaving it in clear view of all players.
The term white elephant refers to an extravagant, impractical gift that cannot be easily disposed of. The phrase is said to come from a perspective about the historic practice of the King of Siam (now Thailand) giving rare albino elephants to courtiers who had displeased him, so that they might be ruined by the animals' upkeep costs.
Letter value or value of the letter may refer to: Phonetic value of the letter; Numeric value of a letter from the alphabet in some numeric systems; Numeric value of a letter in Scrabble and some other word games
Two men teamed up to steal “high-value” items worth more than $200,000 off the shelves of The Home Depot and Lowe’s in several states, federal prosecutors said.
Range Rovers are plummeting in value because they’ve become so easy to steal—now its makers are spending millions trying to make the luxury SUVs theft-proof Ryan Hogg December 14, 2023 at 4:07 AM
Read more:In one of L.A.'s largest cash heists ever, burglars steal as much as $30 million from vault The measures the company has taken include welding hydrants to block access to the bolts ...
Owners of small, independent book stores find shoplifting particularly bothersome. According to Paul Constant, a Seattle book-store employee, "I know a few booksellers who have literally been driven a little bit crazy at the thought of their inventory evaporating out the door, and with good reason: An overabundance of shoplifters can put bookstores out of business.
Pilferage or pilfering is the act of stealing items of low value, especially in small quantities, also called petty theft. Pilferage may also refer to: Package pilferage, the theft of part of the contents of a package; Pilferage (animal behavior), when one animal takes food from another animal's larder