AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! (W3)

"AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!!" ist Alpha
In der Rubrik "Spielenamen" ist "AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!!" derzeit wohl kaum zu schlagen - aber das Actionspiel des kleinen Entwicklerteams Dejobaan macht tatsächlich Spaß. Jetzt hat das Studio eine Alphaversion im Internet veröffentlicht.

Der Titel "AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!!" soll andeuten: Es geht abwärts, und zwar schnell. ...
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Billard-Game

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Crossword Fun
Word Games

• •The Alpha Dictionary's own Word Games - Here is a potpourri of Crosswords like you wouldn't believe, Word Jungles, Encryptions, and more that educate and delight, created by our own home-grown (but educated abroad) linguists.
• •Scripple - A game that looks a lot like Scrabble. Available in Dutch or English. The download was safe when we tested it.
• •A Barrel Full of Words - Jim Wegryn's website with every kind of word play in the book and a couple of appendices he wrote himself.
• •Word Oddities and Trivia - Everything you ever wanted to know about words—and then some!
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Mathematical card tricks

Martin Gardner's 1956 classic Mathematics, Magic and Mystery (Dover) was the first book targeted at a mathematical audience to gather in one place some of the great mathematics-based card (and other magic) tricks. Bill Simon's Mathematical Magic (Dover) from 1964 was second. Starting in the 1950's, and continuing without a break well into the 1980s, Gardner's enormously popular Scientific American column proved to be the perfect vehicle for further expositions along the same lines. Many of these columns on card tricks were given additional visibility over the past four decades in fifteen book collections (with another one on the way soon!). Gardner's recent Mental Magic (Sterling, 1999) book for children, and his ``Modeling Mathematics with Playing Cards'' article in the May, 2000 issue of Mathematics Magazine, are also well worth exploring.
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Back to Square One (W3)

08.02.2010 back to square one

English in a Minute: Back to Square One

Published 02/21/2015

Where and what is "square one?" And why would you want to return to it? Watch this video to figure out how to use this common American English expression.

Back to square one
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The first radio commentary on a football match was broadcast by the BBC on 22nd January 1927.
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Another origin, much more plausible, is suggested by the first example we currently know about, which Fred Shapiro of Yale Law School found in an issue of the Economic Journal for 1952: “He has the problem of maintaining the interest of the reader who is always being sent back to square one in a sort of intellectual game of snakes and ladders.”

call someone's bluff (W3)

November 16, 2014
English In A Minute
Calling Someone's Bluff
Published 11/15/2014
When do you the idiom "call someone's bluff" in a conversation? Watch this video and learn all about it.

Limericks on "call someone's bluff"

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‘A forum for aficionados to discuss all matters relating to the Royal Pastime’ was the description of Chess Notes in its first issue (January-February 1982), and until 1989 the series ran as a bimonthly periodical (C.N. items 1-1933). It resumed publication in 1993 as a syndicated column in many languages around the world (C.N.s 1934-2187). From 1998 to 2001 it was published exclusively in New in Chess (C.N.s 2188-2486) and subsequently appeared at the Chess Café (C.N.s 2487-3414). Since September 2004 Chess Notes has been located at the Chess History Center.

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Crossword Puzzle (W3)

L'viv, Ukraine
Gant Crossword of Lviv
World's largest crossword puzzle spans the side of a towerblock, its clues scattered throughout the city
Architectural Oddities
25 Jan 2010

WORLD'S FIRST CROSSWORD PUZZLE. Arthur Wynne, the English-born New York journalist who invented the crossword puzzle in 1913, would be astonished to see how computers are being used to generate today's cryptic crosswords, and amazed at the latest development, in which addicts are challenged to solve crosswords on the Internet.
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Brief History of Crossword Puzzles
George Eliot
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Crossword
Who Invented the Crossword?
December 20, 2013
The English journalist Arthur Wynne is usually credited with inventing the crossword. His first puzzle, which was called a word cross, was published in 1913. But some people believe that the first crossword puzzle was actually published in an Italian magazine in the late nineteenth century. It was called per passare il tempo, which means “to pass the time.”
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The History of the Crossword Puzzle

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Episode 613: Devil Girl »

Restoring a degraded digital image

CHARLIE: As you can see, the recovered images are highly degraded, a lot of digital information has been lost. But we're applying a technique called "Scaled Gradient Projection". Think of it like a partially filled in crossword puzzle
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• Kostics Trap (7 moves) - A beautiful little trap that can be used against average players.
• Modified Kostics Trap (9 moves) - This is a modification I invented and used to win a game in a tournament.
• 4 Knights: Rubenstein's Defense (13 moves) - My favorite defense against the four knights attack.
• Morphy's Fried Liver Attack (15 moves) - This exciting attack against the Two Knights Defense is really fun!
• Queen's Gambit (15 moves) - This is a good example of purposely diverting attention to get a surprise win.
• Bishops Opening (15 moves) - A nice sacrifice opens up the castle to destruction.
• Evan's Gambit Accepted (16 moves) - Okay, so my opponent made a mistake at the end, but yours will too.
• All Attack (16 moves) - This was supposed to be a Danish Gambit, but it turned into an all out attacking game.
• Queen's Gambit Accepted (17 moves) - Shows what can happen if someone unfamiliar with this opening takes the bait.
• Four Knights (17 moves) - A nice finish after a weird way to arrive at the standard Four Knights opening.
• Center Game (17 moves) - An example of why the Center Game is not recommended.
• Bird's Opening (18 moves) - Bird's attack is usually laughed at, so you can use it for a surprise attack against someone unfamiliar with it. It is great against someone who always castles kingside. In this game it worked even though they went queenside.
• King's Gambit (18 moves) - Again, this is no longer popular, so it is great for a surprise attack.
• Queen's Gambit Declined (18 moves) - This is not the classic gambit. I almost never played another who really knew it.
• Reti's Opening (18 moves) - This totally defensive opening has never appealed to me at all.
• Queen's Gambit (23 moves) - An irregular acceptance of the queen's gambit leads to downfall.
• Sicilian Wing Gambit Declined (24 moves) - The wing gambit is my favorite offense against Sicilian.
• Bishop's Opening (24 moves) - I couldn't resist putting in one more defense against the bishop's opening.
• Sicilian Wing Gambit Accepted (25 moves) - This gambit works well whether accepted or declined.
• Irregular Center (28 moves) - This recent game is played nearly three decades after I was an intermediate level player. I now appear to be a beginner who repeatedly neglects defense. But my son Jared stayed focused on the win even after his queen is lost, and he sacrificed a knight to get a good clean victory.
• Giuoco Piano (30 moves) - This looks like my quickest good win over Giuoco Piano. Tough opening to win against fast.
• Danish Gambit (32 moves) - I saved the best for last. This is both my best game ever and also my favorite opening.

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"poker face": Or: "poker-pan", an expressionless face.

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Poker Face

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What does a poker face look like? We tell you about the idiom poker face in this one minute video.
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It is surprising how many expressions that Americans use every day came from the card game of poker. For example, you hear the expression "ace in the hole" used by many people who would never think of going near a poker table. An "ace in the hole" is any argument, plan or thing kept hidden until needed. It is used especially when it can turn failure into success.
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In a poker game you do not want to let your opponents know if your cards are good or bad. So having a "poker face" is important. A "poker face" never shows any emotion, never expresses either good or bad feelings. No one can learn by looking at your face if your cards are good or bad.

People now use "poker face" in everyday speech to describe someone who shows no emotion.

Someone who has a "poker face" usually is good at bluffing. Bluffing is trying to trick a person into believing something about you that is not true.
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