Articles Tagged with #games
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Personal Essays
Kiss and Tell
When you’re four years old, a kiss is an accessory in a game of dress-up. When you’re the four-year-old’s mother, that kiss comes with a costume trunk of questions.
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Surveys
Gaming Confidence
MIKE Deri Smith summarizes recent news, studies, and gaffes concerning overconfidence, from competitive running to the N.F.L. draft, even socialist firemen.
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Guides
The 2009 Good Gift Games
This holiday season, your loved ones could play Operation: “Death Panel” Edition, or you could give them a game where somebody besides the government wins.
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Personal Essays
The Game of Love
Anyone who says video games shouldn’t appeal to adults, let alone women, has never flirted with General Carth Onassi. Exploring a virtual courtship.
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Diversions
Cloud of Atlases
Maps without legends may not be immediately informative, but determining what they represent is extremely fun. If you’re into that kind of thing, here’s a game for you.
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Opinions
A Common Nomenclature for Lego Families
Thousands of different Lego exist, yet when your seven-year-old asks for “a clippy bit,” you know exactly what to hand him. A breakdown of the atoms of a Lego universe.
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The Spider and the Fly
Your Final Lay
Of the free games included with Windows, none is more treacherous than Spider Solitaire. In the final installment, the master sets the apprentice free.
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Spoofs & Satire
Adventure Capital
It’s risky business, this adventuring, and best not undertaken by those bereft of bravery or collateral.
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The Novice
How to Play Magic: The Gathering
Those who can’t do, learn. In this installment of our series in which the clueless apprentice with the experts, we learn lands, creatures, and spells from Magic great Jon Finkel.
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The Spider and the Fly
Prune Versus Plum
Of the free games included with Windows, none is more treacherous than Spider Solitaire. In the latest installment, the apprentice loses faith while the master eats breakfast.
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The Spider and the Fly
Are We Not Men?
Of the free games included with Windows, none is more treacherous than Spider Solitaire. In the latest installment, the apprentice gnashes teeth, rends hair.
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The Spider and the Fly
The Initiation
Of the free games included with Windows, none is more treacherous than Spider Solitaire. In the latest installment, the master assesses the first hand.