Members choice: Game/Game Pieces.

Tintin and the trap of the Dhor's temple

macro monday's theme: games or game pieces

I found this mini spinning top in my old room in the house of my parents.

It's not a conventional spinning top. It's very small, about 3 cm and made of glass. When i was a child I used to play with my friends with mini spinning tops.

I remember many games but the most popular consists on starting the top at the same time and keeping it spinning as long as you can to be the winner. I had many mini spinning tops, but I found only this one, perhaps the most beautiful.

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I have had a box with these in it and opened it today. It's been years since I've played Dominoes.

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Macro Mondays theme Member's Choice : Games or Game Pieces.

For this week theme “Games or Game Pieces” I chose to use the chess pieces with the least potential strength in the game: the pawns! But as François-André Danican Philidor said: “The Pawns are the soul of the game”.

The pawns featured in my picture measure less than 1” at their base.

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A travelling backgammon set. The pieces are about 15mm diameter

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How cute is that? My little People scrabbled the Great Greeting "HMM" to all their Friends of Macro Mondays

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My stats are currently 0-4 playing with this new Cribbage board. Or is my luck with this deck of cards? Maybe it's time to throw the cards in the fire pit and open a new deck! :)

Photo taken for this week's Macro Mondays challenge, "Games or Game Pieces."

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HMM! Member's Choice - Games or Game Pieces. In this photo the amber marbles are ready to enter the field of battle!

A sidelit, abstract composition comprising three Monopoly playing pieces for this week's theme.

Four images focus-stacked.

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I wanted to make a picture of a very important game piece in a lot of games. The dice.

This is the first time I tried to make a picture like this, I used a white background for a high key photo. If you want to see how I made this picture check my blog.

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Never play with the feeling of others,

because you may win the game

but the risk is that you will surely

loose the person for a lifetime.

(William Shakespeare)

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Fancy a quick game of snooker, all right then I will quickly chalk my cue tip, then rack up the balls!

I will warn you beforehand my game is absolutely rubbish, so you will win hands down.

By Sean Walsh.

For the Macro Mondays challenge "Games or Game Pieces" (November 27th 2017)

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A bit of a last minute rush shot this week! 3 crystal glass pawns from a chess set. Set on a book cover (Ansel Adams book!) and shot in the dark with 2 small lights.

Swarovski used to make this chess set, but now it is hard to find pieces. I've got just six so far. They are a delight to shoot, as they act like prisms and create all kinds of colour effects. The real size shot is in the first comment field.

My 2017 set: 2017 Macro Mondays

My Glass set is here: Elisa Glass set

My Everyday Things set is here: Elisa Everyday Things

Crystal ball, prism and marbles set: Crystal ball etc

All the previous years of the challenge:

My 2016 set: 2016 Macro Mondays

My 2015 set: 2015 Macro Mondays

My 2014 set: 2014 Macro Mondays

My 2013 set: 2013 Macro Mondays

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for Macro Mondays 27 November 2017 theme:

Games or Game Pieces

from our old Clue game

I chose this photo for the 'your best shot in 2017' Group, or should I say it was chosen by you guys (thank you all) out there in the Flickr sphere. I've tried to concentrate on macro shots for a while now and I think this one succeeds quite well in that respect. For me macro is a real challenge, and sometimes my temper gets the better of me, but this time I got a bit lucky as only a good confluence can be. Very lucky indeed as it was meant to be just a trial run for the new camera:)

This game is played like the marble solitaire board game, except with glass pawn-like pieces. As I am intolerant to board games I have no clue as to what that all means:)

This is actually an outtake from the Macro Monday "Fingertip(s)" theme, but since I used these tiny tarot cards (Tarot of the Gnomes by Antonio Lupatelli) for the "Games or Game Pieces" theme, too, I thought I'd upload this as well to show how small the cards really are. As background I used the same black glitter foam sheet I have used for my Tarot house of cards (please see the first comment).

This deck of 22 cards is the smallest Tarot in the world - "I Tarocchi più Piccoli del Mondo" ;-)

The customs were also rougher when they were still playing poker on rough tables. Tricksters made their rounds through the saloons. Sometimes her skill – even a pokerface could not save them – failed and they were unmasked. If, unlike most other times, there was no shooting, they were at least chased out of the city, tarred and feathered ...

In the comics of Lucky Luke, taring and feathers often appear with an ironic undertone as a punishment for trickster. Have you ever read these comics? They are really great fun :-)

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Doppelherz. Nicht immer ein Trumpf. Geteert und gefedert.

Als man noch auf rauen Tischchen dem Spiel des Pokerns nachging, waren die Sitten auch rauer. Falschspieler zogen ihre Runden durch die Saloons. Manchmal versagte ihre Geschicklichkeit – auch ein Pokerface konnte sie nicht retten – und sie wurden entlarvt. Wenn es dann ausnahmsweise keine Schießerei gab, wurden sie zumindest aus der Stadt verjagt, geteert und gefedert ...

In den Comics von Lucky-Luke erscheint das Teeren und Federn häufig mit einem ironischen Unterton als Strafe für Falschspieler. Habt Ihr jemals diese Comics gelesen? Sie machen riesigen Spaß :-)

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Happy Macro Monday to all flickr friends, HMM

p.s. These are pieces of a very small magnetic game, the wide of one piece 0.8-0.9cm so the large of the picture is about 5-5.5cm.

Risk is a strategy board game of diplomacy, conflict and conquest for two to six players. The standard version is played on a board depicting a political map of the earth, divided into forty-two territories, which are grouped into six continents. HMM.

Not a very inspired idea, but I'm bunged up with cold.

Maybe better viewed large but I doubt it (!) and thank you for your favourites. :O)

For Macro Mondays November 27 2017 - Member's Choice - 'Games or Game pieces'.

One of the oldest games in the world, played with stones, knuckle bones with or with out a ball. The jacks as we know them as above are the North American version.

The children's song, "This Old Man" was inspired by an Irish version of Jacks played with 10 stones, a verse for each stone.

Many will know and recognise on what these Dice are resting, the Prism is the giveaway! One of the most famous iconic album covers of all time.

Well for me it is still one of the Best Albums of all time, and happy to say that this one is still in regular use, as it is has so much better sound than any CD!

Had to dig up the backup cam as the main is in Astro mode!

Happy Macro Monday!

the viking game Das Wikingerspiel

Mit Hnefatafl wird ein Brettspiel für zwei Personen aus einer Spielfamilie skandinavischen Ursprungs bezeichnet.

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Monday, November 27

“Macro Mondays” and this week’s theme “Member’s Choice: Games or Game Pieces"

Hnefatafl, also known as The Viking Game, The King's Table or simply Tafl, is one of the rare breed of games with two unequal sides. The defending side comprises twelve soldiers and a king, who start the game in a cross formation in the center of the board. Their objective is for the king to escape by reaching any of the four corner squares. The attackers comprise 24 soldiers positioned in four groups of 6 around the perimeter of the board. All pieces move like the Rook in chess and pieces are taken by "sandwiching" i.e. moving your piece so that an opponent's piece is trapped horizontally or vertically between two of yours. There is a host of information on the Internet about Hnefatafl, including many rule variations that are worth experimenting with.

Hnefatafl [Der Tisch des Königs]

Hnefatafl, auch bekannt als The Viking Game, The King's Table oder einfach Tafl, ist eine der seltenen Spielarten mit zwei ungleichen Seiten. Die Verteidigerseite besteht aus zwölf Soldaten und einem König, die das Spiel in einer Kreuzformation in der Mitte des Spielbretts beginnen. Ihr Ziel ist es, dass der König flieht, indem er eines der vier Eckfelder erreicht. Die Angreifer setzen sich aus 24 Soldaten zusammen, die sich in vier Gruppen zu je 6 Personen auf dem gesamten Spielfeldrand befinden. Alle Steine bewegen sich wie der Turm im Schach und die Steine werden durch "Einlegen" genommen, d.h. das Stück wird bewegt, so dass ein gegnerisches Stück horizontal oder vertikal zwischen zwei von euch gefangen ist. Es gibt eine Vielzahl von Informationen über Hnefatafl im Internet, darunter viele Regelvariationen, die es wert sind, damit zu experimentieren.

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The goal of the game is to occupy every territory on the board and in doing so, eliminate the other players.