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Just found this on line and thought others might enjoy watching as much as I did especially the announcer's reaction to certain questions.
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Games. I think it's OBVIOUS we'd like a game. This game in a simplified form is still great for immaterial car trip amusument when travelling with children. It works very well.
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That was funny! Wasn't there some other...oh, Password. I can, just, remember watching it, though I don't remember how it was played.
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It's a little too long for our poor dialup, but I gather it's What's My Line? I remember a similar show, To Tell the Truth, which had three competing persons all claiming to be the real Joe Blow. The panel would ask questions in turn until some point when they would have to vote on who they thought was the real Joe Blow. The name Password sounds familiar but it seems it was more of a Concentration type game. But no. My memory fails me again. It was a mimeless Charades-type game. It started in 1961 when I was fresh off to college and above such pedestrian pursuit.
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We had a Password board game back in the day. It was fun!
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Password was a family fivorite (crossthreading) when I was a kid. I remember playing it with neighbours on several Christmas Eve's.
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Most of these shows have been imported to our television in those years. Now I just got TALISMAN boardgame to play with my grandkids. It takes me a whole week to read the rools. But here I saw that dice is the plural form of die. I never saw the singular form before.
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Most of these shows have been imported to our television in those years. Now I just got TALISMAN boardgame to play with my grandkids. It takes me a whole week to read the rools. But here I saw that dice is the plural form of die. I never saw the singular form before. Don't feel like the Lone Ranger. Neither has anyone else.
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"The die is cast." (189,000 gh)
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This is a classical ,(biblical?) saying. "De teerling is geworpen". I'll try to find what is a 'teerling' ( outdated word ) In this little book with the rules they make a very clear distinction between 'die' and 'dice'.
Edit: Ah, got it:
Julius Ceasar must have said this when he crossed the Rubicon.
Teerling:teerling m. (plural teerlingen, diminutive teerlinkje, diminutive plural teerlinkjes): die, polyhedron used in games of chance
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"The die is cast." (189,000 gh) Yeahbut©, how many hits can you get besides that one classic quote. This is like arguing that whom has some life left in it by quoting the title of the Hemingway book.
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Read the rules of Amulet and you'll have all the dies you never saw before.
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"The die is cast." (189,000 gh) Yeahbut©, how many hits can you get besides that one classic quote. This is like arguing that whom has some life left in it by quoting the title of the Hemingway book. well, also, anyone who's played any amount of board games (and actually read the roolz) is gonna have come up against the concept of a die. Clue® : Six miniature weapons and one die. link Trivial Pursuit® : game board, question and answer cards in 2 card storage boxes, 1 die, 6 tokens, 36 scoring wedges, 1 code card link Chutes/Snakes and Ladders® : Each player starts with a token in the starting square and takes turns to roll a single die to move the token by the number of squares indicated by the die roll , following a fixed route marked on the gameboard which usually follows a boustrophedon (ox-plow) track from the bottom to the top of the playing area, passing once through every square. link
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I have used die and dice for years. it surprised me that people weren't familiar with them as singular/plural.
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I'm with you, Buff. Having played many boardgames (and non-board games requiring specialized dice such as 3-, 4-, 5-, 7-, 9-, 10- and up to 20- sided...) with my kids, they've known since they were little, and they use them correctly. People who don't play tactile games often are more likely to be less familiar with the terms.
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well, also, anyone who's played any amount of board games (and actually read the roolz) is gonna have come up against the concept of a die. Chutes/Snakes and Ladders® link Oh, you should look at this Vaikuntapali board. It is sò beautiful. You can enlarge it!
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Intricate and interesting! Scary cobras.
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