This book is aimed at someone who knows little to nothing about the game of Go. Perhaps you've seen glimpses of it in popular media or maybe you have a friend who is a Go enthusiast, and would just like to learn more about how he or she spends their Thursday evenings. This publication will not only take you through the basics of the rules and strategy, but also you can learn a lot about the culture surrounding this game and its 4000 year old history.

The 2007 Video Game Price Guide has been completely updated with the newest pricing information for home console systems. It contains values for over 13,000 different games and pieces of hardware. The book covers 48 video game systems which span from the original platforms produced in the 1970s to modern day systems. Games which are unreleased as of press time are listed as well. Whether you are a dedicated classic system collector, or wanting to know how much the games that you have for your newest system are really worth to the video game store, you'll find it here.

Backgammon is a very interesting game to play with brothers and friends because this skill has two sides; first side, makes you feel very happy in your time like Superman when you become the winner. Second side, makes you feel in a disappointed situation and makes you unlucky when you lose. However, before the game finishes, maybe every thing changes like after a storm comes calm. Nobody knows the dice rules in the game. Indeed, it needs to have good manners from every player to keep his friend playing repeatedly. Whatever, It is a funny game by conflict without weapon in a good time on the table. The players' wisdom says, "If you are the loser in Backgammon's game, you are the winner in love."

Dive deep into the history of the world's most popular fantasy RPG livestream with the cast of Critical Role in this definitive guide featuring never-before-seen illustrations and photos. From its unassuming beginnings as a casual home game between friends to the role-playing phenomenon it is today, Critical Role has become the stuff of legend. These pages chronicle how a circle of friends who all happen to be talented voice actors built the most-watched tabletop role-playing livestream of all time. Discover dazzling new illustrations and richly written insights into the locations, characters, and adventures featured in the hundreds of episodes across Critical Role's two campaigns, Vox Machina and the Mighty Nein. Go behind the scenes with archival photos and exclusive interviews with Dungeon Master Matt Mercer and the entire Critical Role cast as they explore their characters' most triumphant moments and darkest hours. And celebrate the massive community of Critters who support and expand the show's world through a highlighted tour of the crafts, cosplay, and art they create every day. Featuring a foreword from the cast, lush illustrations, and the inside story you won't find anywhere else, this book is your indispensable guide to Critical Role. The adventure begins!

The Second Book Of Go takes the reader who has learned the rules and rudiments of strategy and introduces him or her to the fundamental ideas required to get to the 12 kyu level.

Calling all players, beginners and experts alike! Here are the plays you can't afford to miss: 800 puzzles to sharpen your thinking and hone your crossword skills, specially designed and selected by SCRABBLE superstar Joe Edley, the only two-time winner of the National SCRABBLE® Championship and coauthor of Everything SCRABBLE®.

Learn how to:

• "Read the board" and see where you can score the most points -- and where you can't.
• Increase your word game skills with 97 must-know two-letter words
• Build knockout numbers with bonus squares, two-letter words and parallel plays
• Score with the high-point tiles: J, Q, X, and Z
• Balance your rack by playing off weak three-, four-, and five-tile combinations
• Find the key to success with bingos and seven-letter plays
• Find the Ideal Play -- eight questions to ask yourself, plus the Ideal Play on computer
• Win at SCRABBLE -- six key factors
• Find the best play in real game action -- fifty actual games re-created in this book, complete with the author's analysis and computer simulation results.

National champion Joe Edley aims to enhance your SCRABBLE-playing skills. Discover tips, shortcuts, and special plays in actual game situations, and a battery of increasingly complex puzzles as you learn to play with the pros.

The Way of the Moving Horse is the second volume of the award-winning Learn to Play Go series. Covers fundamentals of good play, including opening theory, enclosures and approaches, bases and extensions, invasion and reduction, attack and defense, capturing races, ko, life and death, contact fighting, and endgame. Shows the Korean school's strength vs. speed model to choose between six basic moves. Includes self-test and Internet Go section.

Instructions, over 300 illustrations for creating boards and playing pieces for 39 games-many over 5,000 years old. Directions for Pachisi, Alquerque, Solitaire, Queen's Guard, 35 others. Lexicon of game terminology, rules of gamesmanship, suggested strategies, list of tools and supplies, more.

This memo-game is based on a very special concept: the colors follow the format used in Johannes Itten's color theory: red for a square, blue for a circle, yellow for a triangle, orange for a trapezium, green for aspherical triangle, and purple for an ellipse. The colors are shown with the corresponding form, which increases their specific impression. Futhermore, each color is present in six different nuances; this increases the perception of the color tones and supports the creative process of finding the new names to specify the individual forms. As the cards are turned over new color contrasts are revealed; these can also be used to intensity knowledge of color theory. Thus, these cards must not just be used for playing the memo-game, they can also be used for inspiration and for experimenting with different color combinations, series and tones.

"How we should think about board games, and what do they do to us as we play them?" Writer and critic Eric Thurm digs deep into his own experience as a board game enthusiast to explore the emotional and social rules that games create and reveal, telling a series of stories about a pastime that is also about relationships. From the outdated gender roles in Life and Mystery Date to the cutthroat, capitalist priorities of Monopoly and its socialist counterpart, Class Struggle, Thurm thinks through his ongoing rivalries with his siblings and ponders the ways games both upset and enforce hierarchies and relationships-from the familial to the geopolitical. Like sitting down at the table for family game night, Board Games is an engaging book of twists and turns, trivia, and nostalgia. Avidly Reads is a series of short books about how culture makes us feel. Founded in 2012 by Sarah Blackwood and Sarah Mesle, Avidly-an online magazine supported by the Los Angeles Review of Books-specializes in short-form critical essays devoted to thinking and feeling. Avidly Reads is an exciting new series featuring books that are part memoir, part cultural criticism, each bringing to life the author's emotional relationship to a cultural artifact or experience. Avidly Reads invites us to explore the surprising pleasures and obstacles of everyday life.