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A card dealt face up (either to a player in a game such as stud or to the board in a community card game) that could create a strong hand for someone. scoop In high-low split games, to win both the high and the low halves of the pot. second barrel See barreling second pair In community card poker games, a pair of cards of the second-top rank on ...
Most games use a standardized and unchanging board (chess, Go, and backgammon each have such a board), but some games use a modular board whose component tiles or cards can assume varying layouts from one session to another, or even during gameplay. game component See component. game equipment See equipment. game piece See piece. gameplay
In the 1940 musical film Strike Up The Band, a character suggests punchboards as a way to earn money pay for the titular band's fare to Chicago. The 1947 21-part storyline " Pennies for Plunder ", from the radio series The Adventures of Superman , revolved around a crooked punchboard racket directed at children.
Game board with initial setup for Indigo, a modern (2012) game. Early game boards came in a variety of shapes (for example, senet's game board was made of three parallel rows, while mehen's was based on a spiral form); a quadrilateral (square) shape with grids became common only later, with the emergence of strategy games. [6]
Articles about board game gameplay and terms. Pages in category "Board game terminology" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
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Hand of cards during a game. The following is a glossary of terms used in card games.Besides the terms listed here, there are thousands of common and uncommon slang terms. Terms in this glossary should not be game-specific (e.g. specific to bridge, hearts, poker or rummy), but apply to a wide range of card games played with non-proprietary pac
A traditional Tock board. Tock (also known as Tuck in some English parts of Quebec and Atlantic Canada, and Pock in some parts of Alberta) is a board game, similar to Ludo, Aggravation or Sorry!, in which players race their four tokens (or marbles) around the game board from start to finish—the objective being to be the first to take all of one's tokens "home".