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Rummikub
''Rummikub'' (, "rummy cube") is a tile-based game for two to four players, combining elements of the card game rummy and mahjong. There are 106 tiles in the game, including 104 numbered tiles (valued 1 to 13 in four different colors, two copies of each) and two jokers. Players have 14 tiles initially and take turns putting down tiles from their racks into sets (groups or runs) of at least three. Players have a time limit for one or two minutes for their turn, or draw a tile if they cannot play. In the Sabra version (the most common and popular), the first player to use all their tiles scores a positive score based on the total of the other players' hands, while the losers get negative scores. Variations of the game contain four jokers. An important feature of the game is that players can move and reuse the tiles that have already been placed on the table. The game can also be played with two decks of playing cards, with suits being different colors and numbers as follows: Ace = ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ephraim Hertzano
Ephraim Hertzano (; 1912 – September 1987) was a Romanian-born Israeli board game designer. He is the inventor of the board game Rummikub. Biography Ephraim Hertzano was born in Romania, to a Jewish family. He originally sold toothbrushes and cosmetics. He invented the tile game ''Rummikub'' in the 1940s when card-playing was outlawed under the Communist regime. In the 1940s, after immigrating to British Mandate of Palestine (now Israel) after World War II, the former perfume seller developed the first sets with his family in the backyard of his home in Bat Yam. Over the years, the family licensed it to other countries. Rummikub became Israel's best selling export game. In 1977, it became a best-selling game in the United States. The following year Hertzano published an Official Rummikub Book, which describes three different versions of the game: American, Sabra, and International. The game was first made by Lemada Light Industries Ltd, founded by Hertzano in 1978 and tod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lemada
Lemada Light Industries Inc. is an Israeli game manufacturer. It was founded in 1978 by Mariana and Micha Hertzano, the children of Ephraim Hertzano, who invented ''Rummikub'', their most famous game. It is still run by the Hertzano family with their head office located in Moshav Magshimim, near Ben Gurion International Airport. About The original parent company of Lemada was established in the early 50s by Ephraim Hertzano. Lemada Light Industries Ltd specializes in the development and manufacturing of board and educational games. Rummikub is the third most popular game played by families in the world. Over 50 million Rummikub games have been sold in 54 different countries across 5 continents. The game has been printed in 26 different languages. The factory is based in Arad along with the head office spanning 6,000 sq. meters and employing 80 workers who manufacture over 3 million games a year using state-of-the-art machinery. In the local Israeli market, games are sold under a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israeli Inventions And Discoveries
This is a list of inventions and discoveries by Israeli scientists and researchers, working locally or overseas. Mathematics * Johnson–Lindenstrauss lemma, a mathematical result concerning low-distortion embeddings of points from high-dimensional into low-dimensional Euclidean space contributed by Joram Lindenstrauss. * Development of the measurement of rigidity by Elon Lindenstrauss in ergodic theory, and their applications to number theory. * A proof of Szemerédi's theorem using ergodic theory, by mathematician Hillel Furstenberg. * Expansion of axiomatic set theory and the Zermelo–Fraenkel axioms, ZF set theory by Abraham Fraenkel. * Development of the area of automorphic forms and L-functions by Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro. * Development of Sauer–Shelah lemma and Shelah cardinal. * Development of the first proof of the alternating sign matrix conjecture. * Development of Zig-zag product of graphs, a method of combining smaller graphs to produce larger ones used in the construct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Okey
''Okey'' () is a tile-based game, popular in Turkey, of the rummy family. The aim of the game is to score points against the opposing players by collecting certain groups of tiles. It is usually played with four players, but can also be played with only two or three players. Setting up the game The 106 tiles are placed face down on the table and thoroughly mixed. Next, the players stacks the tiles faced down in groups of 5, creating a total of 21 stacks. There is no specific rule about how many stacks should be in front of each player. It is convenient to have at least six in front of the dealer, but this makes no real difference to the game. One tile remains unstacked and is kept by the dealer briefly. The dealer is randomly chosen at the start and passes to the right after every round. The dealer then throws a Dice, die to determine on which stack the one remaining tile will be placed upon. For example if a 6 is thrown, the tile is placed on the sixth stack in front of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rummy
Rummy is a group of games related by the feature of matching playing cards, cards of the same rank or sequence and same suit. The basic goal in any form of rummy is to build ''Meld (cards), melds'' which can be either Set (cards), sets (three or four of a kind of the same rank) or Run (cards), runs (three or more sequential cards of the same suit) and either be first to Go out (cards), go out or to amass more points than the opposition. Origin There are two common theories about the origin of rummy, attributing its origins in either Mexico or China in the nineteenth century. The first is that it originated in Mexico around the 1890s in a game described as Conquian in R.F. Foster's book ''Foster's Complete Hoyle'', which was played with a 40 card Spanish deck and had melding mechanics. The second is that Rummy originated in Asia, and that Rummy was the result of a Mahjongg, Mahjong variant named Kun P'ai that was Westernized as Khanhoo by W.H. Wilkinson in 1891. Games schola ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spiel Des Jahres
The Spiel des Jahres (, 'Game of the Year') is an award for board and card games, created in 1978 with the purpose of rewarding family-friendly game design, and promoting excellent games in the German market. It is thought that the existence and popularity of the award was one of the major drivers of the quality of games coming out of Germany, particularly in the 1980s and 1990s. A ''Spiel des Jahres'' nomination can increase the typical sales of a game from 500–3,000 copies to around 10,000, and the winner can usually expect to sell as many as 500,000 copies. Award criteria The award is given by a jury of German-speaking board game critics from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, who review games released in Germany in the preceding twelve months. The games considered for the award are family-style games. War games, role-playing games, collectible card games, and other complicated, highly competitive, or hobbyist games are outside the scope of the award. Since 1989, there h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tile-based Game
A tile-based game is a game that uses tiles as one of the fundamental elements of play. Traditional tile-based games use small tiles as playing pieces for gambling or entertainment games. Some board games use tiles to create their board, giving multiple possibilities for board layout, or allowing changes in the board geometry during play. Each tile has a back (undifferentiated) side and a face side. Domino tiles are usually rectangular, twice as long as they are wide and at least twice as wide as they are thick, though games exist with square tiles, triangular tiles and even hexagonal tiles. Modern games may use unconventional non-tileable shapes such as the curved-shaped Bendominoes, or use many different shapes that together tile a surface such as the polyominoes in Blokus. Traditional * Anagrams * Chinese dominoes * Dominoes * Khorol * Mahjong Commercial * '' Okey'' * '' Quad-Ominos'' * '' Qwirkle'' * '' Rummikub'' * ''Scrabble ''Scrabble'' is a word game ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Machiavelli (Italian Card Game)
Machiavelli (also Thirty-Six) is an Italian card game derived from Rummy and is usually played by 2 up to 5 players, but can be played by even a higher number. Because of its characteristics, it is not generally associated with gambling, but is instead a party game. Its appearance can be traced to World War II. Dealing Play requires two decks of 52 standard playing cards, excluding the jokers. The dealer, chosen at random, deals either 12 or 15 cards to each player in clockwise direction. If there are more than five players, the dealer may reduce the number of cards dealt to each person, three cards being the minimum. After dealing the remaining deck is placed in the center of the table. Alternative version Two decks of cards without jokers are needed. The dealer, chosen at random, deals 6 cards to each player in clockwise direction. After dealing they put four face up cards in front of where they would put the rest of the cards, in the center of the table. These cards can be p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israeli Inventions
Israeli may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the State of Israel * Israelis, citizens or permanent residents of the State of Israel * Modern Hebrew, a language * ''Israeli'' (newspaper), published from 2006 to 2008 * Guni Israeli (born 1984), Israeli basketball player See also * Israel (other) * Israelites (other), the ancient people of the Land of Israel * List of Israelis Israelis ( ''Yiśraʾelim'') are the citizens or permanent residents of the State of Israel. The largest ethnic groups in Israel are Israeli Jews, Jews (75%), followed by Arab-Israelis, Palestinians and Arabs (20%) and other minorities (5%). _ ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
