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How not to play

Here are seven ways to sidestep doing as you’re told in a game. But strangely, they seem to be as much a part of playing as the game itself.

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How to play with drunk people

Lower your inhibitions and join Holly Gramazio for fast-paced games made even more fun by alcohol.

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How to play with people who are better than you

It’s frustrating to lose a game to the same player every time. But help is at hand. Discover the ways you can make a game respond dynamically to participants so everyone has a chance of winning.

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Dynamo on the past, present and future of magic

The magician takes a tour and shares stories of history and inspiration.

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  • Three Chelsea Pensioners, two playing cards. Wood engraving.
  • Fred Barnes and his father playing cards. Photographic postcard, 19--.
  • Fred Barnes and his father playing cards. Photographic postcard, 19--.
  • University lecturers at Christmas playing cards. Etching after H. Bunbury.
  • Johann Valerius, a man born without arms, holding playing cards in his toes. Pencil drawing.
  • The dance of death: Death sees two players playing at cards. Colour lithograph by Edward Hull, 18--.
  • A nobleman losing money playing cards in a grandly-appointed gaming house. Aquatint after H. Dawe, 184-.
  • Interior with two men playing cards and four other figures. Oil painting by Stephen Jenner (after George Morland?).
  • Men sitting around a table playing a game of cards. Engraving by C. Gaucher, 1766, after G. Van Tilborch.
  • A doctor and nurses playing cards in a room with a sick patient. Process print after L.T. Lackernay.
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