
Interactive fiction - Wikipedia
Some users of the term distinguish between interactive fiction, known as "Puzzle-free", that focuses on narrative, and "text adventures" that focus on puzzles. Due to their text-only …
Office for Science and Society - Wikipedia
The Office for Science and Society (OSS) is an organization dedicated to science education, operating from Montreal 's McGill University. Its staff and contributors use courses, mass …
The Easy Way to Stop Smoking - Wikipedia
The Easy Way to Stop Smoking is a self-help book written by British author and accountant Allen Carr first published in 1985. The book aims to help people quit smoking, offering a range of …
Closet drama - Wikipedia
Print is the crucial factor behind closet dramas: "a play that is not intended for commercial performance can nevertheless cross between private playreading and the public sphere" …
Verbal arithmetic - Wikipedia
A good puzzle should have one unique solution, and the letters should make up a phrase (as in the example above). Verbal arithmetic can be useful as a motivation and source of exercises …
Martin Gardner - Wikipedia
In 1950, he wrote an article in the Antioch Review entitled "The Hermit Scientist". [29] It was one of Gardner's earliest articles about junk science, and in 1952 a much-expanded version …
Palindrome - Wikipedia
An example of horizontal or linear symmetry in Webern's music is the first phrase in the second movement of the symphony, Op. 21. A striking example of vertical symmetry is the second …
Social deduction game - Wikipedia
Examples of social deduction games include Mafia, in which only the mafia know who is mafia and what the mafia players' roles are; Bang!, in which only the sheriff's role is known to …