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  2. Magic systems in games - Wikipedia

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    Spell-slot systems often employ a rationale that the spell is forgotten when cast, [5]: 240 or that the caster has a finite supply of the ingredients required to cast the spell. In the first case, the spellcaster must re-memorize the spell from a source, typically a grimoire. In the second case, the caster must find new ingredients and prepare ...

  3. Magic: The Gathering rules - Wikipedia

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    Each new spell or ability is put on top of the stack, with the newest on top and the oldest at the bottom. [49] When no player has more spells or abilities to add, spells and abilities on the stack resolve in top-to-bottom order. [4]: 49 Certain spells allow a player to counter other spells. These spells must be cast while the spells they will ...

  4. Glossary of card game terms - Wikipedia

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    To add cards to those already on the table in order to extend a set or sequence. [9] bonus An extra amount added to a player's score for the game for holding or winning certain cards [9] or for achieving certain goals, such as Schneider. bower The jack of the trump suit or the Jack of the same colour as the trump suit e.g. in Euchre or Reunion.

  5. Brag (card game) - Wikipedia

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    Brag is an 18th century British card game, and the British national representative of the vying or "bluffing" family of gambling games. [1] It is a descendant of the Elizabethan game of Primero [2] and one of the several ancestors to poker, the modern version just varying in betting style and hand rankings.

  6. Martingale (betting system) - Wikipedia

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    The impossibility of winning over the long run, given a limit of the size of bets or a limit in the size of one's bankroll or line of credit, is proven by the optional stopping theorem. [ 3 ] However, without these limits, the martingale betting strategy is certain to make money for the gambler because the chance of at least one coin flip ...

  7. Magic in Dungeons & Dragons - Wikipedia

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    Spellcasters can only cast a spell they know or have prepared if they have an available spell slot. This mechanic originated out of the Vancian magic system where "the number of memorized spells is strictly limited by the magician's memory capacity in proportion to the spells' difficulty levels, effectively granting a number of spell slots".

  8. Gambling mathematics - Wikipedia

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    The mathematics of gambling is a collection of probability applications encountered in games of chance and can get included in game theory.From a mathematical point of view, the games of chance are experiments generating various types of aleatory events, and it is possible to calculate by using the properties of probability on a finite space of possibilities.

  9. Rules of Go - Wikipedia

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    The most prominent difference between rulesets is the scoring method. There are two main scoring systems: territory scoring (the Japanese method) and area scoring (the Chinese method). A third system (stone scoring) is rarely used today but was used in the past and has historical and theoretical interest.