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Any starcraft players out there? I personally love the game, but don't have much time to play with school, and am not very good at it.

You know the one. You have to bring a wrapped gift for the office holiday party, then you draw a number, and when your number comes up you have to pick a gift or steal one from somebody. Does anyone want a USC mug?

optimal strategies for the game "Go"? Hello all Just wondering what the optimal strategies for the game "Go" are? Does anyone know how to play this game? Thanks

Drinking is quite commonly mentioned in the General Section, so I was wondering what everyone's favorite drinking game was?

You have a block of wood submerged in a butcket of water. The block of wood is connected to the bottom of the bucket by a spring. The block of wood is stationary (the spring is not oscillating it). Now you place this system in an elevator and start playing the 'random floor' game. When the...

Go to www.spiketv.com and vote for halo 2 for everything it is nominated for, but here is another poll for pf when you have completed the other voting.

Fun game! Participate if you can! Alright I'll try to make this brief. The rules: PM with your guess of a non-negative integer (ie. 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7...) The winner(s) will be the ones who choose the least number with the least number of pickers. For example, if there are 5 people...

Project Help I have a Science project due. I am a little gridlocked... I would like to incorporate a mystery type game to this. What I have is the board and rules, but I need questions. 4 sets. Story (For those who have completed GTA: San Andreas, you may recognize some of the scenarios)...

Periodic Table Game Project HELP! I have a Science project due. I am a little gridlocked... I would like to incorporate a mystery type game to this. What I have is the board and rules, but I need questions. 4 sets. Story (For those who have completed GTA: San Andreas, you may recognize some...

Hello there Ph.D's and not-yet-PhDs ... Just "discovered" game theory for myself today and am interested in finding websites, books, and professional journals that meet your high standards. I'm a beginner in game theory, and I'm not a scientist, but I do read the Journal of Memetics, Journal...

M$ came up with a whole bunch of new precautions for xbox live that is able to detect if an xbox is modded. It looks to see if the harddrive is still the standard 8 gb and that it is running the proper operating system. Thus almost all xboxes... even ones with chips that turn off were baned...

Hey, Well, all of us know that with a bit of concetration at the X-O game you can never lose a game: either draw or to win if the other person mis-put his sign. But does anybody think that the same will be for the chess game..checkers..cards...etc in a very,very very complex way..but still...

I heard that Sony will roll out PS3 next year, true? Anyone play PS2? IT is sold for about 150USD in malaysia, free 15 games. Worth it? You prefer PS2 or computer games with extreme graphic card and big monitor?

i need help with solving tihs problem. I'm not really sure how to prove it. several people started with $300 each, and played a game with the following strange rules. each player pays $10 to the house at the beginning of each round. during each round, one active player is declared the loser...

Can you come up with the correct answer? http://www.pentapublishing.com/lucifers.html

Greetings. If you like John Conway's Game of Life you might find this interesting. It is a pattern I have made based on David Bell's Unit Cell. The Unit Cell is a pattern that replicates the action of a single Life cell. So if you tile an infinite plane with Unit Cells you could actually...

gamepad that connects to an ordinary "game port" I have a gamepad that connects to an ordinary "game port" (audio cards usually have those) on a PC. I want to connect this game pad to my laptop which doesn't have this kind of port. What can I use to connect my game pad to my laptop?

I got into a debate with some people I know here at university and no consensus was reached. For this hypothetical situation, there are four players playing cards. So there are 52 cards, and 4 hands. All the cards are dealt out into four equal piles of 13. What are the chances, that the...

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/william.php This is better than Badger Badger Badger :smile: :smile: :smile: :smile:

“AMD Athlon 64 technology is revolutionizing game design and, given the tremendous power and freedom AMD64 offers to our game designers, we are able to create scenes, physics, artificial intelligence, map sizes and graphics detail that we only dreamed of on 32-bit platforms,“ said Wim Stocks...

Here's a little game I wrote that uses a few basic physical principles. Test your intuition of momentum, (linear & angular), acceleration and force. http://www.martinelli.org/flash/OutPost.html Have fun!

The following phrases are the jumbled-up names of fairly well-known personalities (living or dead). Each phrase itself gives a little clue about the person. Ignoring punctuation marks and other non-alphabetic characters, figure out who the people are. All names include first and last names (and...

Hi there, I have little physics knowledge, just a few poorly understood concepts that I have overheard. Something has been on my mind recently and I though maybe your expertise could assist? There is a theory that says something about the spin on a particle only being determined when a...

What 4 digit number is equal to two more than twice the reverse of its digits? Do it without without using a computer or writing it down. All in your head.

http://www.math.com/students/wonders/life/life.html After reading this article, I thought it would be a good research project to do for a science competition I'm planning on entering. Is it something worth spending a year researching on? The thing that intrigues me is the possibility of...

Bush Bush Bush! For any of you out there that has about 30 minutes to spend on this, i'd recommend you do, you might learn something or two about the bush administration http://www.emogame.com/bushgame.html

Here's a game I just thought of to put on the forums. You continue the story using the most broad vocabulary possible. You can use a dictionary to help if you want. This is a scam to broaden my vocabulary. ;) If the moderators feel this post will become a spam topic or already is, feel free...

5 words must have meaning. Means a short meaningful phrase. and the next one must join with something that is compatible with the the previous... >>>I 'stole' this game from the madcow, he only required 3 words but i think you guys would be da same as me that we have lots of things to tell...

It's not a terribly fun game to play-but sum people might like it. Basically make the longest words from given random selection of letters. number1: wlskfuyen

We should set have some PC game competitions among interested PF members. We can use this threat to pick servers, times, games, etc. Potential games can be the Quakes, Starcraft, Warcraft 3, Battlefield 1942, the Unreal Tournaments, Half-life, or whatever you want to play.

Any one wants to play ? foeexample I start with "pen", the next person must say something related to pen and that word must be one word and have one sound, like "write", though /t/ sound is at the end but its no problem ? This game is called Rensou game in japanese, All the japanese people...

GROOVY math game! Aloha! When we have nothing better to do in my math class, my teacher likes to play this game that I'm going to tell you about. Ok, this is how it works. One person picks a number. In my class, we always make it a 3 digit number, but I suppose you smart alleck physics...

I posted this a while back on the old MKaku forums. I saved it in NotePad and decided to post it again. I just changed a few things and fixed some typos. --- I was thinking about how the Universe came to be, with the atoms, and the subatomic particles, and all the other stuff. Then I thought...

I want to make a computer game. I've made a few text games but I want this one to have graphics. I don't know anything about graphics. If I wanted to make a game with nintendo like graphics what would I use and how would I put it in the game?

ok I'll start with a word and the next person has to type a word that either sounds like the previous word or is descriptive or relates to it. ok here goes... let's see how many pages of words can be generated.. CHOCOLATE

When the 21-year old John Nash wrote his 27-page dissertation outlining his "Nash Equilibrium" for strategic non-cooperative games, the impact was enormous. On the formal side, his existence proof was one of the first applications of Kakutani's fixed-point theorem later employed with so much...

Hello, I have created a game called Ferion, It is a complex space game. The game is about starting an empire in space. You start out in one planet, and then you grow, develop, build etc. there is a lot of strategy involved. One of the key elements in the game are the technologies, they...

I'm trying to model the possble average world temperature for any given day of the year, for planets at varying distances from a star and composed of multiple materials in different quantities for an online game I'm helping develop. basically each planet's composition is simplified to land...

As kat suggested this can better be a separate thread. I am very concerned about what's Bush up to. It seems there is a hidden red line ... . I really hope there is none. I start with a quite neutral view. Interesting on BBC news website: (1) Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has...

I was searching for equations on water bouyancy, and was very interested to find this forum for physics, etc. I'm currently writing the physics for a game engine, partially because I want to learn more physics and I would also like to see the game engine have some nice physics. Todays...

I am to write an agent to play the game Gomoku, for an assignment. Does anyone know any basic rules/heuristics I might use?

ok guys what's your fovorite strategy game, and post why its your favorite, if you vote other tell us what it is

what video game are you playing? im playing devil may cry2 on ps2.

A friend of mine recently gave me a copy of Spiderman and X-Men: Arcade's Revenge for my Super Nintendo (yes, I still have mine and play it). The game, surprisingly, is rather difficult and I don't have the patience to go through a lengthy level only to have my character die. In search...

Consider the standard "guess which one of three curtains the prize is behind" scenario. After choosing curtain 1, you're shown that nothing resides behind curtain 2. If allowed, would you switch to curtain 3?

Just like the Astronomy Q&A game in the Astronomy forum, let's play a physics Q&A game here. The astronomy game has certainly taught me some very neat facts -- maybe this one will do the same. I'm going to post one question posed by marcus: "A favorite version of the question chroot just...

Two players given identical tapes ruled with even N blank spaces each mark N/2 of them. They then compare the tapes, with the goal of scoring the most points as follows: 1. A point is awarded for each string of marks including and longer than that correspondent of the opponent. 2. A point...

Hi all, this may seem a bit martial or militaristic, but remember it's just a model for a mathematical process that I'm interested in. OK. Imagine you have a game (or fight) where 2 teams oppose each other. The exact nature of the game is not important. However, the game has several rounds...

How would i modify the game of baseball in order to play indoors on the moon? I have to assume that the game would be played in a structure that would simulate earthlike air conditions but nothing else regarding the moon's environment. i need to know how the differences in gravity on the moon...

Ever have a good idea for a game? no...oh ok well if you ever do post it here so someone can come along and steal it for their game desing class.