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Solitaire and by
Solitaire games are designed to be played by one player.
Solitaire is any tabletop game which one can play by oneself or with other people.
* Sorcerer's Solitaire by Walker Vaning
FreeCell Pro, the enhanced Windows-based Solitaire implementation by Adrian Ettlinger and Wilson Callan ( formerly freeware, later licensed under GPL ), first integrated Don Woods ' solver and later on used Fish's Freecell Solver and Holroyd's Patsolve.
Solitaire Chess is a chess puzzle produced by ThinkFun.
Examples are The Solitaire Mystery, where the protagonist receives a small book from a baker, in which the baker tells the story of a sailor who tells the story of another sailor, and Sophie's World about a girl who is actually a character in a book that is being read by Hilde, a girl in another dimension.
Solitaire included guest appearances by Bruce Springsteen, Brian Setzer, Billy Zoom and Josh Freese, as well as members of Royal Crown Revue.
* Bowling Solitaire, a one-player game by Sid Sackson that simulates ten-pin bowling.
Solitaire games also by their nature attempt to recreate fog of war using random dice rolls, card draws, or flowcharts to determine events, for example Ambush !.
His best-known works include the novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, which has been cited as an inspiration by radical environmental groups, and the non-fiction work Desert Solitaire.
The Rodrigues Solitaire laid a single egg, that was incubated in turn by both sexes.
First mentioned during the 17th century, the Rodrigues Solitaire was described in detail by François Leguat ( leader of a group of French Huguenot refugees who were marooned on Rodrigues in 1691 – 1693 ).
Later study of skeletal features by Alfred and Edward Newton indicated that the Solitaire was morphologically intermediate between the Dodo and ordinary pigeons, but differed from them in its unique wrist-knob.
Others believed it was a species similar to the Rodrigues Solitaire, as it was referred to by the same name, or even that there were white species of both the Dodo and Solitaire on the island.
Solitaire is any tabletop game which one can play by oneself.
*" Solitaire " ( Neil Sedaka song ) ( 1972 ), a song also covered by the Carpenters
*" Solitaire / Unraveling ", a 2001 song by Mushroomhead on XX
*" Solitaire ", a song by Deep Purple on The Battle Rages On ...
*" Solitaire ", a song by Kamelot on Ghost Opera
* French ship Solitaire ( 1774 ), a ship captured by the Royal Navy and renamed HMS Solitaire
* Solitaire ( ballet ), a ballet by Kenneth MacMillan
* Solitaire ( film ), a 2008 film by Frank D ' Agostino

Dice and by
Dice are frequently used to randomize moves in board games, usually by deciding the distance through which a piece will move along the board ; examples of this are backgammon and Monopoly.
* Rotten Luck: The Decaying Dice of Ricky Jay: A collection of decomposing antique dice once owned by magician Ricky Jay and documented in his book Dice: Deception, Fate, and Rotten Luck
* The New World Order: Facts & Fiction, a 2010 book analyzing NWO conspiracy theories by Mark Dice
Seeing the profits being generated by Wizards of the Coast with their collectible card game Magic: The Gathering, TSR attempted to enter this market in 1996 in a novel way with Dragon Dice.
" Passage is a Game at dice to be played at but by two, and it is performed with three Dice.
* " Dice Man " by The Fall
* " The Dice Man " by My Life Story
* " The Dice Man " by Star 27
* " The Dice Man " is an alias used by Richard D. James, the Aphex Twin
On film, there have been at least three documentaries on diceliving and the philosophy of the dice, including one 50-minute short film called " Dice World " by Paul Wilmshurst, produced by Channel 4.
Written by Paul Lucas, the play was inspired by Luke Rhinehart's novel The Dice Man.
The Dice Man is a novel published in 1971 by George Cockcroft under the pen name Luke Rhinehart and tells the story of a psychiatrist who begins making life decisions based on the casting of dice.
* Two plays have been produced based on the ideas in The Dice Man: The Dice House, written by Paul Lucas and produced by Neal Foster's Birmingham Theatre Company, and The Six Sided Man by Gavin Robertson.
* The script for Dice, a Canada / UK co-produced TV mini-series directed by Rachel Talalay in 2001, was inspired by The Dice Man.

by and Sid
Acquire is a board game designed by Sid Sackson.
As a Raider assistant, Walsh was trained in the vertical passing offense favored by Al Davis, putting Walsh in Davis's mentor Sid Gillman's coaching tree.
Love began a budding acting career in the late 1980s, landing roles in two Alex Cox films ( Sid and Nancy and Straight to Hell ), but was ultimately dissatisfied with it and returned to stripping, where she was recognized and photographed by customers at a bar in McMinnville, Oregon.
Sid Meier's Civilization is a turn-based strategy " 4X "- type strategy video game created by Sid Meier and Bruce Shelley for MicroProse in 1991.
The 1999 game Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri was also created by Meier and is in the same genre, but with a futuristic / space theme.
Gamers that year had a choice between a new game with the Civilization name but no involvement of Sid Meier ; and a " space "- themed civilization game without the name but clearly designed by the same team ( Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri ).
Freeciv is a single and multiplayer turn-based strategy game for workstations and personal computers inspired by the commercial proprietary Sid Meier's Civilization series.
In December 1952, Cukor was approached by Sid Luft, who proposed the director helm a musical remake of the 1937 film A Star is Born with his then-wife Judy Garland in the lead role.
The Algonquin Hotel in New York City is famed as the meeting place of the literary group, the Algonquin Round Table, and Hotel Chelsea, also in New York City, has been the subject of a number of songs and the scene of the stabbing of Nancy Spungen ( allegedly by her boyfriend Sid Vicious ).
On June 8, 2003 a failed coup attempt was made against President Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya by forces unhappy with his imprisonment of Islamic leaders in the wake of the US-led invasion of Iraq and his establishment of full diplomatic relations with Israel.
The Parti Républicain Démocratique et Social ( PRDS ), led by President Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya, has dominated Mauritanian politics since the country's first multi-party elections in April 1992 following the approval by referendum of the current constitution in July 1991.
In August 2005, a military coup led by Col. Ely Ould Mohamed Vall ended Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya's 21 years of strong-arm rule.
His cover was blown by local columnist Sid Hartman who reported the visit and forced Parseghian to issue denials.
The statue was sculpted by artist Sid Henderson of California and weighs almost 300 pounds.
Health and medical propaganda films include The Pace That Kills ( 1935, cocaine ), The Terrible Truth ( 1951, Sid Davis, anti-marijuana / heroine ), Case Study series by Lockheed Aircraft Corporation ( 1969, amphetamines, barbituates, heroine, LSD ), Hoxsey: Quacks Who Cure Cancer ( 1988 ) about the Hoxsey Therapy, The Beautiful Truth ( 2008 ) about the Gerson method for treating cancer, the anti-vaccine The Greater Good, Burzynski The Movie: Cancer Is Serious Business ( 2010 ), and Michael Moore's Sicko ( 2007 ) about the health care industry.
Some well-known punks have had biographical films made about them, such as Sid and Nancy, which tells the story of the Sex Pistols ' bassist Sid Vicious ( portrayed by Gary Oldman ) and Nancy Spungen ( portrayed by Chloe Webb ).
* The Puzzle King: Sam Loyd's Chess Problems and Selected Mathematical Puzzles ( ISBN 1-886846-05-7 ): edited by Sid Pickard
* Sid the Sexist ( voiced by Sammy Johnson )
On August 1, Sid Hatfield, a prominent Union organizer and Matewan chief of police, was assassinated by mining company agents.

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