Best Card Games

When time is up, pun makers share their puns with the prompter, who awards the prompt cards to the player whose pun he or she likes best. JO and FRED FIRESTONE, a daughter-father duo, are the creators and hosts of Punderdome®, NYC’s Most Puntastic Competition—part of New York’s comedy landscape since 2011.

Finally, here's how to do all those showy tricks and flourishes that card players are dying to know: how to send a deck cascading from one hand to the other. Written by Joshua Jay, the award-winning close-up magician and card-obsessed author of Magic: The Complete Course , The Amazing Book of Cards combines friendly, concise text and full-color photos with a full-length DVD that teaches the lessons and shows the subtleties of performance. Joshua Jay, “one of America’s finest young magicians” ( Genii , The Conjurors’ Magazine ), has headlined at the prestigious Magic Castle in Hollywood, is a magic consultant for several multinational toy manufacturers, and has served as the monthly columnist for Magic magazine for 12 years.

Divided into one stack of 50 common Western and Eastern North American birds, and one stack of 50 common birds found across North America, each card features precise illustrations and text concerning habitat, behavior, and voice description necessary for easy identification. DAVID SIBLEY is a leading ornithologist and author of the essential Sibley Birding Field Guides.

This is the 3rd in the American Contract Bridge League's series of bridge books for beginning and advancing players.

These pages, lavishly illustrated with the award-winning art of Magic: The Gathering ™, are your entry into a world beset by terrible evils on all sides and betrayed by the hope it held most dear. James Wyatt is a Senior Game Designer on the creative team for Magic: The Gathering® .

When time is up, pun makers share their puns with the prompter, who awards the prompt cards to the player whose pun he or she likes best. JO and FRED FIRESTONE, a daughter-father duo, are the creators and hosts of Punderdome®, NYC’s Most Puntastic Competition—part of New York’s comedy landscape since 2011.

The book s introduction offers helpful tips and techniques for solving the puzzles, starting with the process of elimination. For almost 20 years, Brain Games® has been the go-to name for puzzle book and magazines that are both entertaining and mind building. Based on the recognized science that games train your brain to think quickly and creatively, BG puzzles cover all bases: logic, word puzzles, cognition, spot the difference, and more. Enter your model number to make sure this fits.

Meant to be played with adult supervision, the game includes an insert with rules and basic anti-bullying concepts. Allan L. Beane, Ph.D., is a nationally recognized expert, speaker, and author on bullying.

The incredible true story of the card-counting mathematics professor who taught the world how to beat the dealer and, as the first of the great quantitative investors, ushered in a revolution on Wall Street. A child of the Great Depression, legendary mathematician Edward O. Thorp invented card counting, proving the seemingly impossible: that you could beat the dealer at the blackjack table. Along the way, the so-called godfather of the quants played bridge with Warren Buffett, crossed swords with a young Rudy Giuliani, detected the Bernie Madoff scheme, and, to beat the game of roulette, invented, with Claude Shannon, the world’s first wearable computer. An intellectual thrill ride, replete with practical wisdom that can guide us all in uncertain financial waters, A Man for All Markets is an instant classic—a book that challenges its readers to think logically about a seemingly irrational world. “In A Man for All Markets , [Thorp] delightfully recounts his progress (if that is the word) from college teacher to gambler to hedge-fund manager. Edward O. Thorp launched revolutions in Vegas and on Wall Street by turning math into magic, and here he weaves his own life lessons into a page-turner as hot as a deck full of aces. “Whether you are an aspiring professional player, a casual gambler, or an occasional visitor to Las Vegas, you can feel the impact of Edward O. Thorp’s intellect on that desert city. The text was based on Thorp’s original research that stemmed from his curiosity about the game of 21 and was billed as a how-to book for the layperson to beat the casinos at blackjack. A Man for All Markets chronicles Thorp’s personal journey in navigating the unexpected and sometimes dangerous obstacles that come along with challenging the status quo of a wealthy corporate adversary.” —Nicholas G. Colon, professional advantage gambler and managing director, Alea Consulting Group. Find the formula for valuing financial options but use it to make money rather than win a Nobel Prize? This book is in part the gripping story of how one man’s genius and dedication has solved so many problems in diverse fields. But more important, it’s a fascinating insight into the thought processes of someone with little interest in fame, who has mostly stayed under the radar, yet who has followed his inquisitive mind wherever it has led him, and reaped the resulting rewards.

The first book on the house of Baccarat, one of the oldest and most preeminent luxury brands in the world, renowned for its fine crystal creations. Perfect for the aesthete’s library or a gift for the lover of all that sparkles, this volume is destined to become a collector’s item.” ~ Identity Magazine “..Francophiles will exult in Baccarat , a compendium of luxury from the fabled crystal house.” ~New York Cottages & Gardens “...sumptuous tome...of one of the world’s most prestigious crystal manufacturers.” ~France Magazine. “Another fantastic book for anyone interested in interior design, the history of design and décor, the history of France or anyone who just loves a little luxury will be completely undone by Baccarat .

More than 2,000 illustrations provide the know-how behind 300 techniques, from basic card tricks to advanced levitation, along with advice on planning and staging a professional-quality magic show. Mark Wilson is first and foremost a famous magician, who the New York Times has recognized as “probably the nation's leading authority on magic.” He is also the hugely successful author of numerous kits and books devoted to instruction in the magical arts including the newly released Complete Course in Magic (Revised Ed.).

Their small blackjack club develops from an experiment in counting cards on M.I.T.’s campus into a ring of card savants with a system for playing large and winning big. Ben Mezrich graduated magna cum laude from Harvard.

Featuring 65 delicious drink recipes paired with wry commentary on history's most beloved novels, Tequila Mockingbird also includes bar bites, drinking games, and whimsical illustrations throughout.