All Popular Games of Skill and Chance by orwant

Referred to by some as the national card game of the United States, _____ is also an international game, popular almost anywhere cards are played. At first _____ was a rough, tough, ask-no-quarter-give-no-quarter gamblers' game played by men in shirtsleeves.

______ has enlisted a fairly extensive following outside of Japan and China. An American master of Chess, Edward Lasker, says "I really believe that _______ is destined to take the place of Chess as the leading intellectual game of the Occident, just as it has reigned supreme in the Orient for some four thousand years."

The object of the game is to communicate a word or phrase solely through the use of gestures.

By ______ or Patience is meant any card game that can be played by one person. His opponent is the luck of the shuffle -- or any personification therefore he chooses to pose, as Beelezebub.

The shooter takes the dice in his hand and rolls them out, preferably so that they hit a wall and bounce back, if the playing area affords the means to enforce this rule.

The _______ set comprises 144 tiles -- small rectangular blocks of wood with ivory or bone faces. Of this total, 108 are suit tiles, 28 are honors, and 8 are flowers (also called seasons).

______ was certainly played by the Greeks and Romans. Plato alludes to a game in which dice are thrown and men are placed after due consideration.

In early times, it was fashionable to deprecate ______ as "Chess for ladies." This evaluation has persisted in the name for the game, in many countries...

In most games with ______, not all the bones are distributed originally: some are left in a "boneyard".

Nearly two hundred years ago a French book commented, speaking of a game called "The Farm", that the game was very ancient but still played in the provinces...The game is known [by] the English as Van John, an obvious corruption [of its name in French]...

The player stuck with the queen is _______ and loses the game.

An old family favorite, this game is also known as "Everlasting", especially among adults who do not have the stamina or patience to play through the long game sessions that their children love.