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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 ; 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 one's men from the board in the final stages of a game. The first to do so usually wins the game; however, in Trictrac, it scores points but the game continues. Also throw of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Backgammon
Backgammon is a two-player board game played with counters and dice on tables boards. It is the most widespread Western member of the large family of tables games, whose ancestors date back nearly 5,000 years to the regions of Mesopotamia and Persia. The earliest record of backgammon itself dates to 17th-century England, being descended from the 16th-century Irish (game), game of Irish.Forgeng, Johnson and Cram (2003), p. 269. Backgammon is a two-player game of contrary movement in which each player has fifteen piece (tables game), pieces, known traditionally as 'men' (short for 'tablemen') but increasingly known as 'checkers' in the US in recent decades. These pieces move along twenty-four 'point (tables game), points' according to the roll of two dice. The objective of the game is to move the fifteen pieces around the board and be first to ''bear off'', i.e., remove them from the board. The achievement of this while the opponent is still a long way behind results in a triple wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tables Games
Tables games are a class of board game that includes backgammon and which are played on a tables board, typically with two rows of 12 vertical markings called points. Players roll dice to determine the movement of pieces. Tables games are among the oldest known board games, and many different varieties are played throughout the world. They are called 'tables' games because the boards consist of four quadrants or 'tables'. The vast majority are race games, the tables board representing a linear race track with start and finish points, the aim being to be first to the finish line, but the characteristic features that distinguish tables games from other race games are that they are two-player games using a large number of pieces, usually fifteen per player. Tables games should not be confused with table games which are casino gambling games like roulette or blackjack. Name The word 'tables' is derived from the Latin ''tabula'' which primarily meant 'board' or 'plank', but also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tables Game
Tables games are a class of board game that includes backgammon and which are played on a tables board, typically with two rows of 12 vertical markings called points. Players roll dice to determine the movement of pieces. Tables games are among the oldest known board games, and many different varieties are played throughout the world. They are called 'tables' games because the boards consist of four quadrants or 'tables'. The vast majority are race games, the tables board representing a linear race track with start and finish points, the aim being to be first to the finish line, but the characteristic features that distinguish tables games from other race games are that they are two-player games using a large number of pieces, usually fifteen per player. Tables games should not be confused with table games which are casino gambling games like roulette or blackjack. Name The word 'tables' is derived from the Latin ''tabula'' which primarily meant 'board' or 'plank', but also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeu Jacquet
''Jeu'' is a 2006 animated short by Georges Schwizgebel. Described as a film about the frenetic pace of modern life, ''Jeu'' is set to the scherzo of Prokofiev's Concerto for Piano No. 2, Opus 16. The film has received 12 international awards, including the Silver Dove Award from the international jury for animated film at the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, the award for best experimental/abstract animation under 35 minutes at the Ottawa International Animation Festival, and a Special International Jury Prize at the Hiroshima International Animation Festival. ''Jeu'' is co-produced by the National Film Board of Canada The National Film Board of Canada (NFB; french: Office national du film du Canada (ONF)) is Canada's public film and digital media producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes documentary f ... and Studio GDS. References External links Watch ''Jeu'' at NFB.ca Abstract an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piece
Piece or Pieces (not to be confused with peace) may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Games * Piece (chess), pieces deployed on a chessboard for playing the game of chess * ''Pieces'' (video game), a 1994 puzzle game for the Super NES * Pieces, parts of a jigsaw puzzle or board game Music Albums * ''Piece'' (Lena Park album), 1998 * ''Piece'' (Monsta X album), 2018 * ''Pieces'' (Bobby Womack album), 1978 * ''Pieces'' (Erik Hassle album), 2010 * ''Pieces'' (IU album), 2021 * ''Pieces'' (Manassas album), 2009 * ''Pieces'' (Matt Simons album) or the title song, 2012 * ''Pieces'' (Michele Stodart album), 2016 * '' Pieces, Part One'', by Epik High, 2008 * ''Pieces'', by Daeg Faerch, 2020 * ''Pieces'', by Kokia, 2011 * ''Pieces'', an EP by Dismember, 1992 Songs * "Piece" (song), by Yui Aragaki, 2009 * "Pieces" (Chase & Status song), 2008 * "Pieces" (Gary Allan song), 2013 * "Pieces" (L'Arc-en-Ciel song), 1999 * "Pieces" (Sum 41 song), 2005 * "Hide"/"Pieces", ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ; 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 one's men from the board in the final stages of a game. The first to do so usually wins the game; however, in Trictrac, it scores points but the game continues. Also throw of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Outer Board
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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 Other *Blot (biology), method of transferring proteins, DNA, RNA or a protein onto a carrier *Blót, a sacrifice to the gods or other beings in Germanic paganism and Germanic neopaganism **Blot (album), ''Blot'' (album), a 2003 album by Einherjer, referring to the Germanic practice *''The Blot'', a 1921 silent film *Another name of a trick-taking card game Belot *Blot (Transformers), a character from the Transformers franchise *Ink blots, as used in the Rorschach test * Blot (1994 film), ''Blot'' (1994 film), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dice
Dice (singular die or dice) are small, throwable objects with marked sides that can rest in multiple positions. They 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 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 designed to favor some results over others for cheating or entertainment. History Dice have been used since before recorded history, and it is uncertain where they originated. It is theorized that dice developed from the practice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knock Off
Counterfeit consumer goods (or counterfeit and fraudulent, suspect items - CFSI) are goods, often of inferior quality, made or sold under another's brand name without the brand owner's authorization. Sellers of such goods may infringe on either the trademark, patent or copyright of the brand owner by passing off its goods as made by the brand owner.Chaudhry, Peggy E., Zimmerman, Alan. ''The Economics of Counterfeit Trade: Governments, Consumers, Pirates and Intellectual Property Rights'', Springer Science & Business Media (2009) Counterfeit products made up 5 to 7% of world trade in 2013,"Challenging the Counterfeit Connector Conundrum" ''Connector Supplier'', November 4, 2013 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Space
Space is the boundless three-dimensional extent in which objects and events have relative position and direction. In classical physics, physical space is often conceived in three linear dimensions, although 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. Debates concerning the nature, essence and the mode of existence of space date back to antiquity; namely, to treatises like the ''Timaeus'' of Plato, or Socrates in his reflections on what the Greeks called ''khôra'' (i.e. "space"), or in the ''Physics'' of Aristotle (Book IV, Delta) in the definition of ''topos'' (i.e. place), or in the later "geometrical conception of place" as "spac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nard (game)
Nard ( fa, نرد, also narde or nardshir; from pal, nywʾlthšyl ''nēw-ardaxšīr'') is an 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 countries, and among Babylonian Jews. A common legend associates the game with the founder of the Sassanian Dynasty, 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 Greek game Kubeia. Another early reference is to be found in the Middle Persian romance ''Chatrang- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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