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Odds and evens is a simple game of chance and hand game, involving two people simultaneously revealing a number of fingers and winning or losing depending on whether they are odd or even, or alternatively involving one person picking up coins or other small objects and hiding them in their closed hand, while another player guesses whether they have an odd or even number.
Any number of people can play the Hand Game, but each team (the "hiding" team and the "guessing" team) must have one pointer on each side. The Hand Game is played with two pairs of 'bones', each pair consisting of one plain and one striped bone. ten sticks are used as counters with some variations using additional count sticks such as extra stick or "kick Stick" won by the starting team.
This old game of cards was called prime in France, primera in Spain, and primiera in Italy. All names derived from the Latin primarius, 'first'.In English literature, besides the occasional use of the foreign names, the game is designated primero (and also prima-vista, a probable variant), with the usual corruptions in spelling of the early days.
Morra is a hand game that dates back thousands of years to ancient Roman and Greek times. Each player simultaneously reveals their hand, extending any number of fingers, and calls out a number. Any player who successfully guesses the total number of fingers revealed by all players combined scores a point.
Mercy is a game of strength, skill, endurance, and pain tolerance popular in Britain, Canada, Pakistan, India, the United States, and elsewhere. The game is played by two players who grasp each other's hands (with interlocked fingers). The aim is to twist the opponent's hands or bend their fingers until the opponent surrenders. [1]
Red hands is a game from , [1] also known as hot hands, [2] [3] slapsies, [4] [5] slap jack, red tomato, Pope slap, tennis, slaps, chicken, slappy-patties, or simply the hand slap game, [6] is a children's game which can be played by two players. One player extends their hands forward, roughly at arm's length, with the palms down.
Bloody knuckles is a game in which each player makes a fist with the thumb wrapped around the other fingers. Then each fist punches the other's fist. Players who flinch are out of the game. Whoever lasts the longest before quitting wins the game. [1] The game is played until someone's knuckles are bleeding or they quit due to excessive pain. [2]
Prime Teams are a concept pioneered in the original Prime Directive game. The concept is a specialized landing party that can perform a variety of functions, including science, negotiations, and combat. While "Prime Teams" are a Federation designation, nearly every empire has their own equivalent.