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Bridge made easy–now updated with 25 percent new and revised information Bridge is among the world’s most popular card games, with 60 million players around the globe. But it’s also tricky to learn and play. This fun and easy guide delivers just what novices need to get up to speed on bridge rules, bidding strategies, game play, and scoring–plus tips and techniques to help intermediate players improve their games. more...

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Suggests solutions for keeping young people upbeat, engaged, and unified. Offering icebreakers, "straight-up" games, and reflection activities, this book provides instructions for staging meaningful, fun interactions that encourage participants to think. The games are organised in sections identifying various stages of group-building. more...

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In 2001, a stranger from Texas entered the high-stakes poker room in the Bellagio casino in Las Vegas. A self-made billionaire, he challenged some of poker's greatest players to a series of heads-up matches. By the end, there was more than $20 million on the table. For the first time ever, here is the detailed, true account of the legendary Big Game that shocked the poker world. Putting you railside to observe the pulse-pounding action, it takes you inside the iron-nerved mind of the professional gambler. Filled with vivid characters, sensational tales, and riveting human drama, this is a unique, suspenseful journey into the world of people who live on the razor's edge of fortune-where incredible wealth or utter ruin turn on the flip of a card. more...

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The science behind Sudoku... Sudoku is a logic puzzle that has become a worldwide phenomenon in the last few years: but where has it come from? How does it work? And what is the science behind sudoku - what are the rules for generating and solving grids? Answers to all of these questions can be found in the ''A-Z of Sudoku''. As its title suggests, this book provides a ''one stop shop'' on sudoku, covering the history of the puzzle, its development and growth in the world's media, before moving on to the mathematics of sudoku and various techniques that can be used to solve grids by hand. Next, the essentials of software development relating to sudoku are presented along with the recent branch of computer science devoted to solving such problems: constraint programming, showing how the principle behind solving sudoku grids can be used in other contexts. Finally, the book concludes with a large number of grids ranging in difficulty from ''very easy'' to ''expert'' which the reader can use to apply the techniques they have acquired from the book in a practical context. Those interested in finding out more about the theory behind sudoku, its origins, it applications in other fields and (of course) how to improve their ability to solve it will find this book a must-read. more...

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A must-have reference for gamblers! more...

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