Games

Beat the Odds

You've watched celebrity poker on TV; you've witnessed an accountant come from nowhere to win the World Series of Poker; now you're ready to cash in on the online action yourself!

Does Anything Eat Wasps?

How fat do you have to be to become bulletproof? Why do people have eyebrows? Why do pineapples have spines? How much does a head weigh? What affects the color of earwax? How quickly could I turn into a fossil?

Brainiac

One day back in 2003, Ken Jennings and his college buddy Earl did what hundreds of thousands of people had done before: they auditioned for Jeopardy! Two years, 75 games, 2, 642 correct answers, and over $2.5 million in winnings later, Ken Jennings emerged as trivia?

Sudoku Mania #1 Puzzles 1 to 6

It's mind-boggling . . . It's addictive . . . It's SUDOKU MANIA Solving Sudoku number puzzles demands no mathematical skills. All you need to have is a good sense of logic, a love of game-playing, and a whole lot of patience!

Sudoku Mania #1 Puzzles 11 to 16

It's mind-boggling . . .It's addictive . . .It's SUDOKU MANIASolving Sudoku number puzzles demands no mathematical skills. All you need to have is a good sense of logic, a love of game-playing, and a whole lot of patience!

Sudoku Mania #1 Puzzles 31 to 36

It's mind-boggling . . . It's addictive . . . It's SUDOKU MANIA Solving Sudoku number puzzles demands no mathematical skills. All you need to have is a good sense of logic, a love of game-playing, and a whole lot of patience!

Sudoku Mania #1 Puzzles 91 to 96

It's mind-boggling . . . It's addictive . . . It's SUDOKU MANIA Solving Sudoku number puzzles demands no mathematical skills. All you need to have is a good sense of logic, a love of game-playing, and a whole lot of patience!

Something for Nothing

An award-winning historian offers a provocative alternative history of America that traces how luck, chance, and gambling have shaped, indeed defined, our national character Hailed by The New York Review of Books as "one of cultural history's masters of linking popular moods and

Zen and the Art of Poker

Inside the intriguing world of poker lies a fascinating exercise in strategy and extreme concentration--many of the same principles that underpin the one-thousand-year-old philosophy of Zen spirituality.

Gambling in America

Whether or not you believe that gambling is good for the economy, you cannot escape the fact that it is the fastest-growing entertainment enterprise in America.