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Contrary Movement
The following is a glossary of terms used in tables games, essentially games played on a Backgammon-type board. Terms in this glossary should not be game-specific (e.g. specific to a single game like Backgammon or Acey-deucey), but applicable to a range of tables games. A ; ace # A die roll of one. # The face of a die with one pip. (Historically, 2=''deuce'', 3=''trey'', 4=''quater'', 5=''cinc'', 6=''sice''; though these terms are now obsolete.Murray (1941), p. 59.Parlett (2018), p. 28.) ; ace point : The player's first point on the board. Also home point or one point. B ; backgammon : A game in which the loser has not only failed to bear any pieces off, but has pieces in the opponent's home table or on the bar. It is worth triple. ; bar : The central strip separating the left and right halves of the board, usually formed by the raised edges or rails of each half board. The raised partition of the board.Longacre (1980), pp. 129 ff. ; bear off : To remove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeu Jacquet
Jeu (French for "game") may refer to: * Jeu (film), ''Jeu'' (film), a 2006 Canadian animated short * Le Jeu (2018 film), ''Le Jeu'' (2018 film), a French film * Books of Jeu, two 3rd century Gnostic texts * Jeu van Bun (1918–2002), Dutch footballer nicknamed "Jeu" * Jeu Sprengers (1938–2008), nicknamed "Jeu", Dutch chairman of the Royal Dutch Football Association * jeu, ISO 639-3 code for the Jonkor language, spoken in Chad See also * Choe Je-u (1824–1864), Korean religious leader * Félicité Du Jeu, French actress * ''Jeux'', a ballet written by Claude Debussy {{nickname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Points
A point is a small dot or the sharp tip of something. Point or points may refer to: Mathematics * Point (geometry), an entity that has a location in space or on a plane, but has no extent; more generally, an element of some abstract topological space * Point, or Element (category theory), generalizes the set-theoretic concept of an element of a set to an object of any category * Critical point (mathematics), a stationary point of a function of an arbitrary number of variables * Decimal point * Point-free geometry * Stationary point, a point in the domain of a single-valued function where the value of the function ceases to change Places * Point, Cornwall, England, a settlement in Feock parish * Point, Lewis, a peninsula in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland * Point, Texas, a city in Rains County, Texas, United States * Point, the NE tip and a ferry terminal of Lismore, Inner Hebrides, Scotland * Points, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in the United States Business an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Making A Point
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Chasing The Girls
Chasing the girls (Að Elta Stelpur in Icelandic) is an Icelandic tables game of elimination whereby hitting a blot results in eliminating it from the board. Only rolls of 1's, 6's and doublets are played, while all other dice rolls are ignored. Only rolls of doublet 6's are played twice while all other doublets are played once. No block can be formed as only blots are allowed. Hit blots are removed from the board and eliminated from game play, are not re-entered. Once a player only has one man A man is an adult male human. Before adulthood, a male child or adolescent is referred to as a boy. Like most other male mammals, a man's genome usually inherits an X chromosome from the mother and a Y chromosome from the f ... it is referred to as a corner-rattler ( hornaskella). The corner-rattler only moves on points 1, 6, 7, 12, 13, 18, 19 and 24. A roll of 1 moves the corner-rattler one point forwards in the aforementioned points. A roll of 6 move ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Icelandic Language
Icelandic ( ; , ) is a North Germanic languages, North Germanic language from the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family spoken by about 314,000 people, the vast majority of whom live in Iceland, where it is the national language. Since it is a West Scandinavian languages, West Scandinavian language, it is most closely related to Faroese language, Faroese, western Norwegian dialects, and the extinct language Norn language, Norn. It is not mutually intelligible with the continental Scandinavian languages (Danish language, Danish, Norwegian language, Norwegian, and Swedish language, Swedish) and is more distinct from the most widely spoken Germanic languages, English language, English and German language, German. The written forms of Icelandic and Faroese are very similar, but their spoken forms are not Mutual intelligibility, mutually intelligible. The language is more Linguistic conservatism, conservative than most other Germanic languages. While most of them hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knock Off , a derivative of a creative work
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Knock offs, or dupes, are products similar to higher-end items but sold at a much lower price. Knock off may also refer to: * ''Knock Off'' (film), a 1998 film starring Jean-Claude Van Damme * "Knock Off" (song), a 2022 song by Jess Moskaluke *"Knockoff", a 2023 song by Poppy from the album ''Zig'' (album) See also * Ripoff, a grossly unfavorable financial transaction *Spin-off (media) A spinoff or spin-off is any narrative work derived from an already existing work that focuses on different aspects from the original work. History One of the earliest spin-offs of the modern media era, if not the first, happened in 1941 when t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nard (game)
Nard (, also narde or nardshir; from ''nēw-ardaxšīr'') is a historical Persian tables game for two players that is sometimes considered ancestral to backgammon. It is still played today, albeit in a different form. As in other tables games, the playing pieces are moved around a board according to rolls of dice. It uses a standard tables board, but has a different opening layout and rules of play from that of backgammon. History The game has been historically popular in Persia, Muslim world, Muslim countries, and among Babylonian Jews. A common legend associates the game with the founder of the Sassanian Dynasty, Ardashir I, Ardashir. Indeed, the Persian name is a shortening of the older name , from Middle Persian ''nēw-ardaxšīr'' "brave Ardashir". The oldest known reference to the game is thought to be a passage in the Talmud, although some claim it refers to the Greece, Greek game Kubeia. Another early reference is to be found in the Middle Persian romance ''Chatrang- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Space
Space is a three-dimensional continuum containing positions and directions. In classical physics, physical space is often conceived in three linear dimensions. Modern physicists usually consider it, with time, to be part of a boundless four-dimensional continuum known as '' spacetime''. The concept of space is considered to be of fundamental importance to an understanding of the physical universe. However, disagreement continues between philosophers over whether it is itself an entity, a relationship between entities, or part of a conceptual framework. In the 19th and 20th centuries mathematicians began to examine geometries that are non-Euclidean, in which space is conceived as '' curved'', rather than '' flat'', as in the Euclidean space. According to Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, space around gravitational fields deviates from Euclidean space. Experimental tests of general relativity have confirmed that non-Euclidean geometries provide a bet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dice
A die (: dice, sometimes also used as ) is a small, throwable object with marked sides that can rest in multiple positions. Dice are used for generating random values, commonly as part of tabletop games, including dice games, board games, role-playing games, and games of chance. A traditional die is a cube with each of its six faces marked with a different number of dots ( pips) from one to six. When thrown or rolled, the die comes to rest showing a random integer from one to six on its upper surface, with each value being equally likely. Dice may also have other polyhedral or irregular shapes, may have faces marked with numerals or symbols instead of pips and may have their numbers carved out from the material of the dice instead of marked on it. Loaded dice are specifically designed or modified to favor some results over others, for cheating or entertainment purposes. History Dice have been used since before recorded history, and their origin is uncertain. It is hypoth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blot
Blot may refer to: Surname * Guillaume Blot (born 1985), French racing cyclist * Harold W. Blot (born 1938), served as United States Deputy Chief of Staff for Aviation * Jean-François Joseph Blot (1781–1857), French soldier and politician * Yvan Blot (1948–2018), French conservative political figure, founder and president of the Club de l'Horloge * Jean Blot (1923–2019), French writer, translator, and senior civil servant of Russian origin * (born 1983), French judoka Religion *Blót, a sacrifice to the gods or other beings in Germanic paganism and modern Germanic paganism ** ''Blot'' (album), a 2003 album by Einherjer ** "Hefja Blot", a song by Danheim for his album ''Friðr'' ** "Blotjarl", a song by Danheim and Heldom for his album ''Skapanir'' ** "Vetrnátta Blot", a song by Danheim and Heldom for his album ''Skapanir'' Other *Blot (biology), method of transferring proteins, DNA, RNA or a protein onto a carrier *'' The Blot'', a 1921 silent film *Another name of a t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Outer Board
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Home Board
The following is a glossary of terms used in tables games, essentially games played on a Backgammon-type board. Terms in this glossary should not be game-specific (e.g. specific to a single game like Backgammon or Acey-deucey), but applicable to a range of tables games. A ; ace # A die roll of one. # The face of a die with one pip. (Historically, 2=''deuce'', 3=''trey'', 4=''quater'', 5=''cinc'', 6=''sice''; though these terms are now obsolete.Murray (1941), p. 59.Parlett (2018), p. 28.) ; ace point : The player's first point on the board. Also home point or one point. B ; backgammon : A game in which the loser has not only failed to bear any pieces off, but has pieces in the opponent's home table or on the bar. It is worth triple. ; bar : The central strip separating the left and right halves of the board, usually formed by the raised edges or rails of each half board. The raised partition of the board.Longacre (1980), pp. 129 ff. ; bear off : To remove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
