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Whipple, Tom.
How to win at games and beat people /
Tom Whipple.
First Dey Street Books edition.
New York, NY :
Dey St., an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
2015.
New York, NY :
Dey St., an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
2015.
186 pages :
illustrations ;
21 cm.
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Monopoly -- Pillow fighting -- Tic-tac-toe -- Charades -- Jenga -- Rock, paper, scissors -- Connect 4 -- Battleship -- Hangman -- Blackjack -- Scrabble -- Thumb wrestling -- Operation -- Risk -- Pooh sticks -- Slot car racing -- Paper airplanes -- Checkers -- Apple bobbing -- Six degrees of Kevin Bacon -- Coin tossing -- Drinking games -- Musical statues -- Snail racing -- Competitive eating -- Quizzes/Trivial Pursuit -- Diplomacy -- Sandcastles -- Stone skipping -- Twenty questions.
Presents winning strategies and tips for a number of board games and family amusements, including a mathematical approach to Connect Four, the physics behind slot car racing, and the game theory of Monopoly.
20160705.
Games.