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  2. Fantasy Squares Grid Sheets and Mapers Aid Template

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    Lewis Pulsipher reviewed Fantasy Squares Grid Sheets and Mapers Aid Template in The Space Gamer No. 48. [1] Pulsipher commented that "Unless you intend to show off your maps as works of art, I don't see the need for this precision. Almost anyone can draw a perfectly adequate circle, star, whatever quicker than he can use a template to help him ...

  3. MacMahon Squares - Wikipedia

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    (Here "different" means up to rotations.) The goal is to arrange the squares into a 4 by 6 grid so that when two squares share an edge, the common edge is the same color in both squares. In 1964, a supercomputer was used to produce 12,261 solutions to the basic version of the MacMahon Squares puzzle, with a runtime of about 40 hours. [2]

  4. Shuckatoom - Wikipedia

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    Although the cue sheets that listed the "Shuckatoom" theme indicated it was published by Markwater Music and licensed through BMI, [2] the tune was never made available separate from the show itself. Only by owning a copy of the correct show would anyone be able to obtain an "in the clear" copy of the show themes.

  5. Missing square puzzle - Wikipedia

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    The missing square puzzle is an optical illusion used in mathematics classes to help students reason about geometrical figures; or rather to teach them not to reason using figures, but to use only textual descriptions and the axioms of geometry. It depicts two arrangements made of similar shapes in slightly different configurations.

  6. Cue sports - Wikipedia

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    Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded by elastic bumpers known as cushions. Cue sports are also collectively referred to as billiards, though this term has more specific connotations in some varieties of English.

  7. Straight pool - Wikipedia

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    Jerome Keogh invented the game in 1910.. Straight pool is derived from an earlier game called continuous pool, [2] in which points are earned for every ball that is pocketed. . In this game, the last object ball is pocketed (not left on the table as in straight pool), and then racked with the rest of them when a new game begins (the player who pocketed the final ball plays the break shot in ...

  8. In a Pickle (card game) - Wikipedia

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    To start the game, each player is dealt five cards, and four cards are placed face up in the shape of a "plus" sign in the center of the table. On their turn, a player may take a card from their hand and place it under or on top of one of the four piles in the center of the table.

  9. Glossary of card game terms - Wikipedia

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    To set up the layout required before play e.g. to set up the 4 cards in Newmarket and place stakes on them; To ante counters or stakes to a pot or pool at the start of a hand. drop, drop out. To withdraw from the current deal, [38] for example in Mauscheln, Préférence, Three-card Loo and Toepen. [52] Also fold.