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A two-player game is expected to end in 47.76 moves with a 50.9% chance of winning for the first player. [25] These calculations are based on a variant where throwing a six does not lead to an additional roll; and where the player does not need to roll the exact number to reach square 100; if they overshoot, the game has still ended.
Snakes and Earrings (蛇にピアス, Hebi ni Piasu) is a Japanese novel by Hitomi Kanehara.The story follows Lui, a young woman in Tokyo whose fascination with body modification and sadomasochistic sexual activity drives her to make increasingly dangerous personal choices.
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The Player of Games is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first published in 1988. It was the second published Culture novel . A film version was planned by Pathé in the 1990s, but was abandoned.
Water Serpents II, also referred to as Wasserschlangen II, is an oil painting made in 1907 by the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt.It is the follow-up painting to the earlier painting Water Serpents I.
[7] [8] The ouroboros is often interpreted as a symbol for eternal cyclic renewal or a cycle of life, death and rebirth ; the snake's skin-sloughing symbolises the transmigration of souls . The snake biting its own tail is a fertility symbol in some religions: the tail is a phallic symbol and the mouth is a yonic or womb-like symbol.
The Aesculapian snake / ˌ ɛ s k j ə ˈ l eɪ p i ə n / (now Zamenis longissimus, previously Elaphe longissima) is a species of nonvenomous snake native to Europe, a member of the Colubrinae subfamily of the family Colubridae.
The film tells two stories thirty years apart, both featuring Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and last survivor of his tribe. He travels with two scientists, firstly with the German Theo von Martius in 1909 and then with an American named Evan in 1940, to look for the rare yakruna, a (fictional) sacred plant.