Games

media type="custom" key="2905973" __ Games at The Chic ago World' s Fair    __

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In the game of blackjack a "jack" face card is worth 10 points and an "ace" card is worth either 11 or or one in the circumstances. Clearly these two cards equal BLACKJACK!!!

//**__ The History of Blackjack __ **// Black Jack is the most widely played casino banking game in the world. Blackjack was invented by the French. It is said that Blackjack is a duplicate of the French card games “Chemin de fe” and “French Feme __ **//Value of Cards in Blackjack//** __ __ The cards in Blackjack are assigned the following point values: __ ·  Face cards such as a Jack, Queen and King each count as 10 points. · An Ace counts as 1 point or 11 points, whichever is better in the situation of the player · All other cards are worth their number value. ”. The game “vingt-et-un” (twenty and one) originated in French casinos around 1700 A.D and was diffused to the United States in the 1800’s. [|pro.corbis.com/search/ Enlargement.aspx?CID=is...] This is a stack of pick up sticks. This game was played by young and old. the objective is to pick up as many sticks with out moving the other sticks.

[|arrabi.blogspot.com/ 2007/07/checker-is-solved...] This is what a typical checkers game board would look like befor being played in a match.

[|www.geocities.com/. ../hopping.html] This is a picture showing two men on stilts. Stilts were used to add height. 

There was a time when entertainment did not deal with electronical devices, children played with things as simple as stilts. These are poles equipped with steps for the feet to stand on, or straps to attach them to the legs, for the purpose of walking while elevated above a normal height. This worked on a child’s coordination skills. It is definitely not as easy as it looks. The idea of stilts can vary from person to person. Stilts were not only toys but had other uses such as for entertainment and architecture. There were various types of stilts such as Hand held stilts, Peg Stilts, Drywall Stilts, and Spring stilts. Stilts were used by for various kinds of people, such as painters, workers, actors, and magicians. [|freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ~el...] Kids as young as 5 to 10 are lined up and are competing to get to the finish line, in the sack race. Sack racing is a former Olympic sport (1904, St. Louis). Sports are only added to the Olympics if they are popular in society at the time. Since sack races were added to the Olympics it must have been very popular leading up to this time. These races have been going on for such a long time that there is no specific year when they originated. Even today sack races are played.

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