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Home Dictionary Name: playercompact disk player
an electronic device containing a laser used to read or play back the data on a compact disk The term is usually used for the type of device used to play music recordings That used for data storgage n coputer applications is usually called a CD drive Called also CD player and informally CD...
Lotto
A game of chance played with cards or tickets on which are inscribed numbers and any contrivance as a wheel containing numbered balls for determining a set of numbers by chance The player holding a card having on it the set of numbers drawn from the wheel takes the stakes after a certain percentage of them has been deducted for the dealer In some systems lesser prizes are awarded for having some but not all of the numbers selected such as four or five numbers in a six number drawing A variety of lotto is called keno In another variety the player chooses the numbers for the card or ticket she holds There may be from three to seven different numbers on a card or ticket In a modern computerized lotto system conducted by state authorities the player chooses numbers or allows the computer to choose numbers at random which are then printed on a ticket that the player holds until the winning number is selected...
MVP
most valuable player the player judged to be the most important to the sport also the name of the award given to that player...
Skat
A three handed card game played with 32 cards of which two constitute the skat sense 2 or widow The players bid for the privilege of attempting any of several games or tasks in most of which the player undertaking the game must take tricks counting in aggregate at least 61 the counting cards being ace 11 ten 10 king 4 queen 3 jack 2 The four jacks are the best trumps ranking club spade heart diamond and ten outranks king or queen but when the player undertakes to lose all the tricks the cards rank as in whist The value of hands depends upon the game played trump suit points taken and number of matadores...
bingo
a game commonly used for low stakes gambling in which numbered balls or slips are drawn at random and players cover the correponding numbers on their cards called Bingo cards which have square arrangement of such numbers Each card has a different arrangement of the numbers and the first player to cover all numbers in one row horizontal vertical or diagonal is the winner usually announcing that fact by a cry of ldquoBingordquo...
Dicer
A player at dice a dice player a gamester...
limelight
That part of the stage upon which the limelight is cast usually where the most important action is progressing or where the leading player or players are placed and upon which the attention of the spectators is therefore concentrated...
Bingo duty
Bingo duty, is payable by the promoter of the bingo concerned, but may be recovered jointly and severally from all or any of the following persons, namely (1) that promoter, (2) any person who took money as payment from the players for their cards, or who paid prices to players, (3) any person who was responsible for the management of the premises on which the bingo was played, and (4) where any person within heads (1) to (3) is a company, any director of that company, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 6, 4th Edn., Para 397, p. 182....
Gaming or gambling
Gaming or gambling, the playing any game of chance, as cards, dice, etc., for money, or money's worth.The still unrepealed 33 Hen. 8, c. 9, prohibits the keeping of any common house for dice, cards, or any unlawful games, under penalties of 40s. for every day of so keeping the house, and 6s. 8d. for every time of playing therein; and the (English) Gaming Act, 1738 (12 Geo. 2, c. 28) (applied by the Gaming Act, 1739 (13 Geo. 2, c. 19), to all games with dice, except backgammon, and by the (English) Gaming Act, 1744 (18 Geo. 2, c. 34), to 'roulet, otherwise roly-poly'), declares hazard and other games to be lotteries, so that the keepers of tables for them are liable to penalties under the (English) Lotteries Act, 1721 (8 Geo. 1, c. 2), the (English)Lotteries Act, 1710 (9 Anne, c. 6), and the Lotteries Act, 1698 (10 & 11 Wm. 3, c. 17); the system ofincorporation of previous statutes by referencebeing carried very far in gaming legislation.Gaming in Public-houses, etc.--Sect. 79 of the (E...
aleatory
aleatory [Latin aleatorius of a gambler, from aleator gambler, dice player, from alea, a dice game] : depending on an uncertain event or contingency as to both profit and loss [the nature of a lawyer's contingency fee arrangement] ...
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