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Timespinner is a video game developed by Lunar Ray Games and published by Chucklefish.It was funded through the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter in June 2014. Initially scheduled for release in November 2015, growth in the project's scope necessitated a later release date of September 2018.
Muggins is part of the Fives family of domino games whose names differ according to how many spinners are in play. Muggins is the game without a spinner, Sniff and modern All Fives have a single spinner, and, in Five Up, all doubles are spinners. [2] However, historically Fives or All Fives was the progenitor of the family and had no spinners. [3]
This game can be played by two or more players or individually. In a competition, the aim is to keep the top spinning as long as possible, while one participant tries to knock over the other spin top with his own. An ice-covered stretch of a house yard or a neighbourhood alley acts as a venue for the game of Paengi Chigi.
The world record holders for the board game was set in 2017, against four other teams, with a score of 411 cards won. This is an official Guinness World Records recognised award. The players awarded are James Kendrick and Chris Ager [citation needed]. Originally released in 1992, Articulate! has been in the UK adult game top 10 each year.
Spinner (aeronautics), the aerodynamic cone at the hub of an aircraft propeller; Spinner (cell culture), laboratory equipment for cultivating plant or mammalian cells; Spinner (computing), a graphical widget in a GUI; Spinner (MIT Media Lab), software that can automatically edit video to fit a narrative structure
In variants of Muggins, the line of play may branch due to spinners. In the common U.S. variant known as Fives players score by making the open ends a multiple of five. [36] In British public houses and social clubs, a scoring version of "5s-and-3s" is used. The game is normally played in pairs (two against two) and is played as a series of "ends".
Dominoes: All Fives. All Fives features beautiful art, fast gameplay, and solo or multiplayer modes. Expose multiples of five and score! By Masque Publishing
Some role-playing games use tops to augment dice in generating randomized results; it is in this case referred to as a spinner. Gould mentions maple seeds , celts (leading to rattlebacks ), the fire-drill , the spindle whorl , and the potter's wheel as possible predecessors to the top, which he assumes was invented or discovered multiple times ...