Essays Tagged: "Card game"

Evaluatoin of Anno's Learning Games. A little review of educational sowtware. Personally opinionated

lp available, and the language in the help is clearly and plainly worded.The first game I tried was CARDS, a card game that helps teach logic and sequence. There is also a side program that allows you ... ou to customize the deck. This is a fun activity for kids, but the, real meat of the program is the card game.GUESS MY RULE is a game where the student tries to classify a jumble of objects in a Venn ...

(3 pages) 37 0 4.2 Nov/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Alexander Pushkin "The Queen of Spades" Hermann and Greed

ueen of Spades is a complicated story about greed, the supernatural, love, desires and secrets. The card game in the story The Queen of Spades is one of the oldest games of chance. What I will try to ... iend's, he learns the story of an old countess who is known to hold an invincible secret at playing cards. This Countess resides with her niece, Lisa. Hermann decides to manipulate Lisa and allows her ...

(2 pages) 61 0 3.0 Nov/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors

Information Processing Technology - how to creat a game or program. its the code on a card game.

Game properties:Form 1CaptionFlip Card GameLabel 1Name Numbers of WinBorderStyle 1 - Fixed SingleCaption0Font MS Sans Serif12RegularLa ... ExitCommand 3NamecmdChoseCaptionChose ACommand 4Name cmdChoseCaptionChose BSub for click on a cover cardSub for a New Game·Code for the New game Button:Private Sub cmdNew_Click ()Static Occupie ... ameSet loss label = 0' update number of loss for new gameEnd Sub·Code to activate a covering card when it's clicked on:Private Sub picCover_Click (Index As Integer)Static First picBox as Intege ...

(2 pages) 73 1 2.6 Feb/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Programming Languages

Online casino.

ixteenth century became adept at the Egyptian game of roulette, while Napoleon took interest in the card game "vingt-et-un" - what is now known as blackjack or twenty-one. The English developed a dive ... ine casinos provide a complete selection of funding or deposit methods to start you playing. Credit card use is permitted and accepted most often. Not having to use cold hard cash only provides you wi ...

(3 pages) 37 0 0.0 Oct/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

The Stalker

vities that the boys and girls were participating in. Some were shooting hoops, others were playing card games, and the rest were having interactions among each other. Everything seemed ideal and typi ...

(2 pages) 14 0 3.0 May/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

The Main Idea in "A Way of Talking" and "A Game of Cards"

The main idea in both stories 'A Way of Talking' and 'A Game of Cards' is close relationships, especially within the family. This is important because we can unders ... rom Hera's point of view, and this new understanding probably brings them even closer.In "A Game of Cards" there is also a close relationship between the narrator and the main character, Nanny Miro. T ... nny Miro because she felt loved and needed by the narrator.Another close relationship in "A Game of Cards" is the relationship between Nanny Miro and her friend Mrs Heta. They play cards together all ...

(3 pages) 16 0 2.3 May/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature

Elizabethan Sports

ng, which was a main part of society. Common types of games played were board games, dice games and card games. Board games such as chess and backgammon caught attention of various people (Elizabethan ... games that were played (Elizabethan Games). Furthermore, another conventional type of game was the card game. Card games were a type of game, which were made for gamblers of Elizabethan times. Games ...

(4 pages) 21 0 4.6 Aug/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

"Terwilliger Bunts One" by Annie Dillard

s father expresses on page 154 in The Norton Reader, the Eleventh Edition as the result of a simple card game.It seems that Dillard's mother has pushed the wrong buttons on everyone around her. Everyo ...

(2 pages) 17 0 0.0 Nov/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

The Queen Of Spades

ome of the character is nothing like what was expected."The Queen of Spades" begins at the end of a card game. As the gentlemen reflect on their wins and loses Tomsky tells a story about his grandmoth ... ut his grandmother, the Countess. He tells the guys that the Countess has the ability to play three cards and always guess the right ones. Everyone thinks it's a lie but Tomsky swears it's true. This ...

(4 pages) 8 0 1.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

All the kings men

orthlessness in the things that he believes he wants. He compares these material objects to playing cards within a deck. " Maybe the things you want are like cards" (Warren 99). An individual wants th ... t are like cards" (Warren 99). An individual wants these cards because in a certain circumstance -a card game- they have a purpose. Without a game however, there is no need for these cards. While in a ...

(6 pages) 1396 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Macbeth

All the kings men

orthlessness in the things that he believes he wants. He compares these material objects to playing cards within a deck. " Maybe the things you want are like cards" (Warren 99). An individual wants th ... t are like cards" (Warren 99). An individual wants these cards because in a certain circumstance -a card game- they have a purpose. Without a game however, there is no need for these cards. While in a ...

(6 pages) 2527 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Macbeth

How Does ‘The Poker Party’ Add To Our Understa

slightly rancorous attitude towards the others on account of having been drinking and losing at the card game. In particular Stanley is vindictive towards Mitch due to both Mitch winning the game and ...

(5 pages) 1309 0 1.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

Poker: Addiction or Social Activity?

is fickle and elusive, but ultimately it is fair, and right, and just." Poker, by definition, is a card game played by two or more persons, in which players bet on the value of their hands, the winne ... ght.The exact origins of poker are unclear. It seems to have originated from a 16th century Persian card game known as As Nas (wikipedia 1). This game was played with twenty five cards with five diffe ...

(4 pages) 1141 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Silver Lining: A reflective essay on a life changing moment in my childhood

happier to see that I had him at more of disadvantage than I even originally thought. The next five cards were dealt and in the process I felt like I was slapped across the face. Somehow, someway, fou ... lt and in the process I felt like I was slapped across the face. Somehow, someway, four of the five cards that hit that computer-generated table were spades; spades that gave my opponent an ace high f ...

(6 pages) 26 0 4.0 Sep/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories

"A Wicked Pack of Cards:" Tarot As Divination in T.S Eliot's Waste Land

h this is the only section in which she appears, the fortunes she tells through her "wicked pack of cards" are driving elements in the poem as each incident she foretells eventually comes to pass, tho ... tnotes of the poem any definite knowledge of the contents of a standard tarot deck, so of the seven cards this clairvoyant draws and presents, only two are authentic cards at first glance, the others ...

(8 pages) 3955 0 0.0 Nov/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry