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Top 15 Word Games

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Scrabble

Some players study Scrabble like Garry Kasparov studies Chess. The Deluxe edition boasts several worthwhile features, including a board that spins and holds letters in place. I think Scrabble is best with 2 players.

Apples to Apples

Who knew that two decks of cards — nouns and adjectives — could be this much fun? One player serves as the judge and lays down an adjective. The others scramble to find a noun in their hand which can be described by that adjective. The results are often outrageous. For 4 to 8 players. A junior edition is available.

Boggle

Players (2 or more) compete to find as many words as possible in a 4×4 grid as a three-minute sand timer works its way down. You score points by finding words that other players don’t locate. This game is fast-paced and addictive. A "Folio" edition published in 2003 makes Boggle very travel-friendly.

BuyWord

Designed by master game designer Sid Sackson, BuyWord challenges players to buy letters and then sell words at a profit. Naturally, the better letters cost more money. Players have to have good word skills, but it also helps to understand the concept of "buy low, sell high" in this game. For one to four players.

Pass the Bomb

A randomly timed "bomb" gets passed from player to player in this game, as they try to come up with words that include the letters on a face-up card. When the bomb "explodes," the player holding it gets the card, representing one negative point.

Typo

Typo is a very clever word game from small publisher Cwali. Players begin with a hand of 12 cards (each card has one letter), with five cards on the table. They then attempt to play their cards in such a way that they can expand the cards on the table to form part of a word. For two to six players.

Balderdash / Beyond Balderdash

Making up definitions for unusual words is the basis for this game. Expanding on the original Balderdash, Beyond Balderdash categories include words, people, initials, dates, and movie plots. The best bluffer wins. Best with 4 to 6 players.

Upwords

A cousin of Scrabble, Upwords allows you to stack letters on top of existing words to build new ones. Scoring also is different — each letter is worth the same, with some advantage to stacking them. Best with 2 players.

 

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Top 15 Hand-Held Electronic Board Games

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Electronic Hand-Held Boggle

I freely admit that I’m a sucker for Boggle, so being able to play it in a car, on a plane, or on a train without worrying about losing any of the dice is a great concept. For one player.

Electronic Hand-Held Monopoly

The classic real estate board game Monopoly in a hand-held form. For one player.

Electronic Catch Phrase

This one requires more than one player, but it’s a great twist on a fun game. In Catch Phrase, you don’t want to get caught holding the gozmo when the buzzer goes off — so do whatever it takes to get someone on your team to say the right word!

Electronic Hand-Held Yahtzee

All the challenges of original Yahtzee in hand-held form. For one player.

Electronic Hand-Held Connect Four

With the one-player electronic version of Connect Four, you won’t be able to say, "here, diagonally" or "pretty sneaky, sis" — at least not without having people stare at you. For one player.

 

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Top 15 Haba Games

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Karambolage

Players use a string to shoot their disks into each other, scoring points for hitting certain targets but losing all their points for hitting others. This game won Germany’s award for Children’s Game of the Year in 1995. For two to four players.

Hochst Verdachtig

The title of this game translates to "Highly Suspect" and it has a crime-solving theme. The game board tilts, sending the suspects and the police officer sliding this way and that. A skilled player will be able to direct the police to the suspect he wants arrested. For two to four players.

Galaxia

The "board" here is a star-shaped spinning wheel, to which players add smaller stars. But the smaller stars make the large star turn, which can then cuase some of the smaller stars to fall off (then they become valuable shooting stars). For two to four players.

Klondike

Panning for gold is the theme of this game. Players secretly predict how many gold nuggets will be left in the pan when one player finishes washing his gold. This game won Germany’s award for Children’s Game of the Year in 2001. For two to four players.

Zitternix

This game translates to "Keep It Steady" and that’s not necessarily an easy task. A batch of colorful sticks are placed inside a wooden disk. On your turn, you roll a die and then have to pull out a stick that matches the color you rolled — without causing the whole pile to fall over. For two to four players.

 

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Top 15 Grossing Films of All Time (Unadjusted for Inflation)

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Titanic (1997)

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)

Shrek 2 (2004)

E. T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006)

Spider-Man (2002)

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

The Passion of the Christ (2004)

Jurassic Park (1993)

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

Finding Nemo (2003)

Spider-Man 3 (2007)

 

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Top 15 British Places Combining Natural Beauty With High Quality of Life

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Aberdovery

Snowdonia National Park, Wales

Behind the quay at Aberdovey, or Abedyfi, the monumental Calder Idris and Aran Fawddwy ranges poke the clouds. Ahead, the waters of Cardigan Bay flutter with sailing boats and sometimes reveal rare bottlenosed dolphins. Snowdonia National Park walls in this idyllic Victorian seaside town, where children fish for crabs on summer days, and protects it from the ravages of the 21th century.

What is the cost of this bucket-and-spade lifestyle with its majestic natural backdrop? Property prices have grown by 24 per cent in the last five years. The average terrace house sells for £225,000 and a detached house for £590,000.

Particularly beguiling is a grade II-listed, three-bedroom house at Tywyn. Hung with roses, Cil Cemmaes stands on a steep hill with a waterfall and stream rushing past. It comes with a former mill house, gardens, paddocks, and woodland running to 15 acres. Jackson- Stops & Staff (01244 328361) is offering it at £450,000.

Ambleside

Lake District National Park, Cumbria

Sublime is how many would describe this landscape of giant rock formations, hanging valleys, tarns, natural amphitheatres and the constant play of light and shade. Ambleside has long been loved by rich northern industrialists, and adored by romantics including Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas de Quincey, Harriet Martineau and Beatrix Potter, all of whom lived here. Now it throngs with walkers.

"It is the honeypot of the Lakes," says Andrew Holmes of Carter Jonas (01539 722592). "But it still has local people, a market each Thursday, plenty of young wanting to live here and set up new businesses. Incomers tend to buy to live here rather than keep their properties as second homes."

Prices are high. He is selling a pretty stone and slate cottage called Thomas Fold, with four bedrooms and a flat in the middle of Ambleside, at £695,000 and a six-bedroom pile called The Wyke at Grasmere for £2.5 million.

Bakewell

Peak District National Park, Derbyshire

Established in 1951, the Peaks were Britain’s very first national park. Bakewell charms everyone, with its stone buildings, its bridge across the Wye, a wide range of shops and the famous jam-withalmond tarts. Summer visitors pour in after visiting nearby Chatsworth. All around it lies the wilderness of the Peaks, full of vast rocky outcrops, plunging valleys, caves and dry stone walls.

Only 38,000 people live here, and it is sadly out of reach for many more who would like to. For prettiness, look to Thorpe Cottage across the hills at Thorpe, a classic four-bedroom stone house with a two-bedroom annexe, for sale through Knight Frank (0121 200 2220) at £750,000. The backcloth here is Thorpe Cloud, whose summit is reached by a nearby footpath.

Bath

World Heritage Site, Avon

"It was built as a play town, loved for its pleasure gardens, the spa, the gaming and coffee houses," says Andrew Cronan of Savills. Bath is the great architectural set piece, cradled in a natural bowl of hills, where the 18th-century architects John Wood the Elder and his son John the Younger crammed every inch with elegant squares and crescents.

Robert Adam added Pulteney Bridge in 1769, echoing the Rialto in Venice. But is it recession-proof? "Everyone buys here through choice. Few come for work reasons, so it is entirely aspirational and does not do well in a slack market when people go for practicality," says Andrew. From the hierarchy of properties you could pick a two-bedroom stone house in York Street at £495,000, or a five-bedroom, five reception room grade I-listed period wonder in Great Pulteney Street, with exercise room, sauna and Robert Adam fireplace, at £2 million through Savills (01225 474550).

Brockenhurst

New Forest National Park, Hampshire

This medieval landscape of bog and tree is within easy reach of London by rail (trains stop between Weymouth and Waterloo) and close to sailing heaven on the south coast. "It has a bustle, with great delicatessens, all the ingredients of the good life, and you never know whether a horse might canter down the main street," says Michael Riley of Savills. Half to two-thirds of his buyers come from London and the Home Counties.

You can start househunting here with £400,000 to £600,000. Beaulieu, six miles away on the Beaulieu River, has become a haven for millionaires and their yachts. Most houses here cost £8 million to £10 million, but Saltmarsh, a six-bedroom house with four acres, barn, stables and river frontage, has just gone on the market through Savills (02380 713990) at £1.5 million.

Callander

Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park, Scotland Acknowledged as some of the grandest scenery in Europe, with dizzying mountains, lochs, waterfalls and impatient rivers, this is a place where you can walk for miles without seeing a soul.

And it isn’t that expensive, as Fiona O’Sullivan, the executive producer of The Property List, points out. "The average price here is £177,000, so it is possible to live in such a stunning location and get a few quid change after selling in London," she says. "It isn’t a place that makes you think you can’t afford it."

This pretty town has shops, cafés and restaurants, and is not that far from Stirling or Glasgow. Sir Walter Scott set his novels here. Tannochbrae of Dr Finlay’s Casebook was set here too. Splash out and you can buy the dream. North Mid Frew, at Thornhill, nine miles away, includes three bedrooms, a tower with 360-degree views, a twobedroom cottage, outbuildings and two acres, and is priced at £925,000 through Strutt & Parker (0131 226 2500). A whole panorama of mountains unfolds through the windows.

If you go deeper into the highlands you will find Frenich Farm, which appears like a mirage on the still waters of Loch Chon. It is a traditional farmhouse with three courtyard cottages, two barns and 53 acres, which Knight Frank (0131 222 9600) has priced at £1.4 million.

Chagford

Dartmoor National Park, Devon

"It is top of the list if you want the West Country but don’t want to be on the coast," says Charlie Lawson of Jackson-Stops & Staff. Chagford scores because it sits right on the moor, is surrounded by steep valleys and gushing rivers and also has specialist shops, primary schools, pubs and restaurants.

Crucially, too, it is reachable even in a bad winter. "What people desire is a view which is protected, even though they don’t own it," says Charlie. "The national park is rigid in its planning policy and won’t allow development or windfarms."

Shilstone Manor, a Dartmoor stone and thatched house with four bedroom suites, attics, two cottages, barns, gardens, equestrian yard, paddocks and 30 acres of woodland, is on the market for £2.1 million through Jackson-Stops & Staff (01392 214222). The views are out of this world and it has its own small henge called Spinster’s Rock.

Edinburgh

World Heritage Site, Scotland "It is one of the finest cities in the world - except for the weather," says Jamie McNab of Savills. "It used to be rather inward-looking but has become much more cosmopolitan in the last five or six years."

What other city can offer a seam of volcanic countryside running right through it in Holyrood Park, the Olympian drama of Arthur’s Seat, and the castle, glorious Georgian squares and crescents and views of the Firth of Forth? You need £1.5 million to £2 million to afford a house in the New Town, though you can get a three-bedroom flat with period features on the edge of it for £650,000 through Knight Frank (0131 222 9600).

The Scottish Parliament and financial sector form its social and economic bedrock. The highest recorded property price has risen over the last two years from £2 million to £5 million. "There is the old cliché that it is a city where prices never fall," says Jamie. "But I think that we are feeling the cold breeze coming in from the South."

Loddon

The Broads, East Anglia

"The North Norfolk coast has been getting all the glory, but the reason why Norfolk became famous in the first place, back in the 1890s through to the 1930s, was the very special landscape of the Broads," says Louis de Soissons of Savills. "Pockets are magically lovely and unspoilt."

The patchwork of reedbeds, windmills, shallow lakes and fens, which make it the largest protected wetland in the country, is best seen from the water. As it is only nine miles from Norwich, Loddon attracts commuters with a passion for sailing who take up residence in the often quirky converted boathouses and Victorian summerhouses.

Sheerwater, at the head of Wroxham Broad, is a converted boathouse with five bedrooms, two verandas, a mooring, wet boat house, further boat houses and three acres, selling at £625,000 through Savills (01603 229229). From here you can sail through the entire network of broads, which are not natural lakes but flooded medieval peat works.

Stokesley

North York Moors National Park, Yorkshire

This is another of the more affordable eye-catchers, where average prices hover at £170,000. The town has a collection of Georgian and Regency houses around the green, a cobbled high street and a bridge across the River Leven.

The Stokesley agricultural show in September is the big event of the year, showing livestock and produce brought down from the moors.

Mount Pleasant at Great Broughton, two miles from Stokesley, is a four-bedroom house with outbuildings, selling through Strutt & Parker (01423 561274) at £750,000. In the hills above, you’ll hear nothing but the cry of the curlew and the bleating of sheep. The Property List: Stunning Locations, is on Five on Thursday at 8pm.

 

Author: Telegraph.co.uk

Top 15 Countries With Negative Image Ratings from Americans

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Michigan (Michigan)

107,501

Beaver (Penn State)

107,282

Neyland (Tennessee)

104,079

Ohio (Ohio State)

101,568

Bryant-Denny (Alabama)

92,138

Sanford (Georgia)

92,000

Tiger (LSU)

91,600

L.A. Coliseum

91,000

Ben-Hill Griffin (Florida)

88,548

Jordan-Hare (Auburn)

85,612

 

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