Do you turn down invites to poker games because you don't know the rules? Then Card Games Properly Explained is the book for you. Arnold Marks's handbook will teach you not only what you need to know to play the game, but how to play to win. He will teach you Whist and its variations: Solo and Napoleon; Poker and its variations like Seven Card Stud and Deuces Wild; Cribbage; Rummy-the forefather of Gin Rummy and Canasta, among others; and more. Written...

What was the last game you played? Video game, board game, world building game? In Game Logic: Level Up and Create Your Own Games with Science Activities for Kids, middle schoolers take on the world of games by figuring out what makes them challenging, fun, and addictive! Kids love games. Board games are still wildly popular, despite the profusion of video gaming devices that reach audiences as young as toddlerhood. World-building games such as Settlers...

Find out how you can create and use potions to provide a varity of useful effects in the world of Minecraft.

"Play thru 50 levels and learn to create your own content, then go online and share your levels with the world! Play 18 new levels designed by members of the LittleBigPlanet community plus 1 million user generated levels online to discover! Over a dozen bonus costumes & new level packs with game upgrades like the Paintinator!" -- Container.

You're Jak, a quiet hero in the making. Jak and sidekick Daxter are playing on Misty Island a wee bit close to a pit of Dark Eco. Daxter falls in and crawls out looking like a fused otter and weasel. The two visit the village's local wise man, the Green Sage, to transform him back. But the Magical Ports from one island to the other have shut down, and the only way to reach the more knowledgeable wise men that could help him is to embark on an adventure,...

Compete in dodgeball, kick volleyball, slot car racing, tetherball, paper airplane racing, wall ball, or darts, with different kids at different skill levels.

Set far in the future from the original Portal game, awake in the Aperture Science Labs as Chell, a former test subject trying to gain her freedom from the facility and GLaDOS, the AI controller of the facility. In escaping your initial confinement, GLaDOS is also reawakened. Set in the test chambers of the facility, your goal is to make your way through the game levels using your portal gun to create temporary passages through solid surfaces, allowing...

Welcome to a society governed through computer games! On New Earth, society is governed and conflicts are resolved in the arena of a fantasy computer game, Epic. If you win, you have the chance to fulfill your dreams; if you lose, your life both in and out of the game is worth nothing. When teenage Erik dares to subvert the rules of Epic, he and his friends must face the Committee. If Erik and his friends win, they may have the key to destroying...

Arcade and retro video games: alley ball, jump shot classic, critter hitter, freeway, pizza party, ship toss, pirate booty spin, deck swab hockey, Atlantis, smoothie moves, brick tower, landing party panic, rocket knockdown, megamania, corndog stand, arcade master space hockey, kaboom!