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The Games (television)
The Game or The Games may refer to: Sports and games * The Game (dice game) (German: ''Das Spiel''), a dice game designed by Reinhold Wittig * The Game (mind game), a mind game, the objective of which is to avoid thinking about The Game itself * Charades (c. WWII American name) * The Game (treasure hunt), a 24- to 48-hour treasure hunt / puzzlehunt / road rally * The Game Headwear, a sports apparel and equipment company * The Game, a nickname of American professional wrestler Triple H College sports * The Game (Harvard–Yale), an annual American college football game * The Game (Michigan–Ohio State), an annual American college football game * The Game (Hampden–Sydney vs. Randolph–Macon), an annual American college football game * The Game (Cornell–Harvard), an annual American college ice hockey game Literature * ''The Game'' (Dryden book), a 1983 memoir by ice hockey player Ken Dryden * ''The Game'' (London novel), a 1905 novel by Jack London * ''The Game'' (King ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Game (dice Game)
''The Game'' is a dice game designed by Reinhold Wittig. It was first published in Germany in 1979, without rules and under the German name ''Das Spiel''. * It contains a triangular base plate and 281 dice of four different colours, and a rule book that gives rules for some 50+ games. Most of the games are centered on building or demolishing pyramids of dice, but there are also racing games and games of skill. The game has been originally published by Diego Rodriguez (Reinhold Wittig), Göttingen, in 1979. ''The Game'' won the 1980 Spiel des Jahres special award for "most beautiful game". In his preface Wittig writes: I've often been asked how you go about it to invent a game. I want to add one answer now. Is perhaps the best answer possible to show the many different ways of designing a game. The answer is also a challenge: Invent rules of your own to my dice pyramid. The first edition of the game was a small version of the dice pyramid, without any rules. Over time, pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Hastings (playwright)
Michael Gerald Hastings (2 September 1938 – 19 November 2011) was a British playwright, screenwriter, and occasional novelist and poet. He is best known for his 1984 stage play and 1994 screenplay ''Tom & Viv'', about the poet T.S. Eliot and his wife Vivienne Haigh-Wood. Biography Hastings was born in London, UK. His early plays – ''Don't Destroy Me'' (1956), ''Yes And After'' (1957) – reflected the influence of the Angry Young Men movement and his brief involvement with the circle surrounding Colin Wilson. Hastings later enjoyed mainstream West End success with ''Gloo Joo'' (1978), a farce about a West Indian threatened with deportation from the United Kingdom, which won the ''Evening Standard'' Comedy of the Year Award in 1979. He wrote numerous stage plays, television screen plays, and in addition to the ''Tom & Viv'' film, scripts for two motion pictures, '' The American'' (1998) and ''The Nightcomers'' (1971, based on the Henry James novella ''The Turn of the Scr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Next Generation)
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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