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Trouble (known as Frustration in the UK and Kimble in Finland) is a board game in which players compete to be the first to send four pieces all the way around a board. It is based on a traditional game called "Frustration" played on a wooden board with indentations for marble playing pieces and rules similar to Parcheesi.
Video of the Headache board's "pop-o-matic" dice roller. Like similar games such as Trouble, Headache has its dice in a "pop-o-matic" bubble in the center of the board. The bubble is pressed to roll the dice. Unlike Trouble, which has a single die in the bubble, Headache has two dice. One die is a regular die featuring the numbers one through six.
This device is a clear plastic hemisphere containing the dice, placed over a flexible sheet. Players roll the dice by pressing down quickly on the bubble, which flexes the sheet and causes the dice to tumble upon its rebound. The Pop-o-matic container produces a popping sound when it is used, and prevents the dice from being lost. The captive ...
APBA (pronounced "APP-bah") is a game company founded in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.It was created in 1951 by trucking firm purchaser J. Richard Seitz (1915-1992). [1] The acronym stands for "American Professional Baseball Association", the name of a board game league Seitz devised in 1931 with eight high school classmates. [2]
In computational play (e.g., Computer Olympiad), clobber is generally played on a 10x10 board.There are also variations in the initial layout of the pieces. Another variant is Cannibal Clobber, where a stone may not only capture stones of the opponent but also other stones of its owner.
Claudia and Crazy Peaches (September 1994) - Claudia has trouble with her pregnant aunt. Mary Anne Breaks the Rules (October 1994) - Mary Anne has Logan over during a sitting job and gets caught. Mallory Pike, #1 Fan (November 1994) - Mallory discovers that her favorite author lives in Stoneybrook.
Nomic is a game created in 1982 by philosopher Peter Suber, the rules of which include mechanisms for changing those rules, usually beginning by way of democratic voting. [1] The game demonstrates that in any system where rule changes are possible, a situation may arise in which the resulting laws are contradictory or insufficient to determine ...
Pope Joan or Pope, a once popular Victorian family game, is an 18th-century English round game of cards for three to eight players derived from the French game of Matrimony and Comete [1] and ancestor to Spinado and the less elaborate Newmarket. [2]