Winter Olympic Game

Winter Olympic Game

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Paraphrasing is the skill of keeping track of what we are hearing, organizing the speaker's points, and describing what we understand in our own words.

call this "learning by doing" is too simple, since we will not learn as much if we separate what we are doing -- making a podcast, modding a game, mastering a level -- from the social context in which we are doing it.

Merging game theory and control theory in the era of AI and autonomy

as soon as they enter’d the City, both Males and Females, young and old, flockt together to see this Lady, holding up their Paws in admiration;

To illustrate the point, I challenge you to categorize any of the following experiences - are these games, stories, or learning experiences?

Most of these near clones have and will fail. The reason that matching the basic proof of work hurdle of an Status as a Service incumbent fails is that it generally duplicates the status game that already exists. By definition, if the proof of work is the same, you're not really creating a new status ladder game, and so there isn't a real compelling reason to switch when the new network really has no one in it.

You have probably heard of the hip-hop subculture, people who in engage in extreme types of sports such as helicopter skiing or people who play the fantasy game Dungeons and Dragons.

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al: she refuses to play the game because she knows thedice are loaded

egant; whether the outfit disguises, deforms, or moldsthe body, in any case, it delivers it to view. This explains whydressing is an enchanting game for the little girl who wants to look atherself;

ut recourse. Taking without beingtaken in the anguish of becoming prey is the dangerous game ofadolescent feminine sexu

As this abrupt industrial expansion demands a bigger labor marketthan male workers can provide, women’s collaboration is necessary.This is the great nineteenth-century revolution that transforms the lotof woman and opens a new era to her. Marx and Engels understandthe full impact this will have on women, promising

Although gamification has been applied as a technique throughout the course of history, the term is relatively new.

The students were awarded badges and points for participation during the development of the project. Because the creators used an environment common to the digital natives’ generation, such as social media networks, the Cosmic Voyager Enterprises storyworld felt real. The transmediality involved in the project contributed (1) to a more realistic experience, (2) engaged and challenged the students, (3) connected students emotionally within the storyworld, (4) taught students to cooperate in problem-solving activities, and (5) offered a more interesting and meaningful experience

“[t]he argument that gamification in education is merely a repackaging of established strategies remains a consistent criticism”

game,in other words, can be its own autonomous, self-contained world

Many contemporary games—Railroad Tycoons, for instance—incorporate spreadsheets, maps,graphs and charts, which students must learn to use to play the game.

This projected identity allows the playerto strongly identify with the character and thus have an immersive experience within thegame, and at the same time to use the character as a mirror to reflect on his or her own valuesand choices.

One can think of the process as closely paralleling what actors do whenpreparing for a role.

21C Skills of communication, creativity, collaboration, and problem-solving that are important cross-cutting leadership skills to move from being a consumer to a maker on the web.

That brings us to the second, related issue: there are no rules in the find-a-risk-factor game 8/n

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there are not only those who give orders but those who give advice as to what orders should be given.

The next year, doxxing became a tool by in the “GamerGate” controversy, an online dispute purportedly about ethics in video game journalism that became a foundational moment for some of today’s fringe far right. Mostly male video-game players began to publish personal information — including home address and phone numbers — for women in their community, typically journalists and game designers who they said were unfairly politicizing gaming culture.

The next year, doxxing became a tool by in the “GamerGate” controversy, an online dispute purportedly about ethics in video game journalism that became a foundational moment for some of today’s fringe far right. Mostly male video-game players began to publish personal information — including home address and phone numbers — for women in their community, typically journalists and game designers who they said were unfairly politicizing gaming culture.

The next year, doxxing became a tool by in the “GamerGate” controversy, an online dispute purportedly about ethics in video game journalism that became a foundational moment for some of today’s fringe far right. Mostly male video-game players began to publish personal information — including home address and phone numbers — for women in their community, typically journalists and game designers who they said were unfairly politicizing gaming culture.

The fact that people sometimes form attachments with for-mer rivals or opponents is itself a meaningful indicator of a gen-eral inclination to form bonds. Cognitive consistency pressuresand affective memories would militate against forming positivesocial bonds with people who have been rivals or opponents.Yet, as we have already noted, the Robbers Cave study (Sherifet al., 1961 /1988) showed that people could join and work to-gether with others who had been bitterly opposed very recently,and Wilder and Thompson (1980) showed that social contactcould overcome established intergroup prejudices and stereo-types. Orbell, van de Kragt, and Dawes (1988) likewise showedthat impulses toward forming positive attachments could over-come oppositional patterns. In their study using the prisoner'sdilemma game, having a discussion period led to decreasedcompetition and increased cooperation, as a result of either theformation of a group identity that joined the potential rivalstogether or explicit agreements to cooperate. Thus, belong-ingness motivations appear to be able to overcome some antag-onistic, competitive, or divisive tendencies

We the People of the United States, in Order to form

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Think-ing of teacher–child interaction as a badminton game

he teacher seeks to extend the children’s intellec-tual stamina and attention span; increase their range of investigation strategies; enhance their concentration and effort; and still allow them to fully experience pleasure and joy in the game

What matters most is that we focus teaching and learning on, well, teaching and learning, and that during a time of crisis, instead of abandoning our missions to a superficial set of patchwork technologies, we dig deeper to stay true to our commitment to our core values in higher education.

The insistence on the dialectics of this transition is crucial if we are to elaborate forms and methods of analysis that appreciate the spe-cific ways the resistance struggles of the oppressed have persistently shaped the constitution of power, such that we might appreciate both the granular-ity of social change and the specific conditions of the present moment. If a materialist antiracism is to move effectively beyond legalistic and moralizing claims about racist individuals and toward a strategic approach that seeks to engage power rather than disdain it as criminal or malevolent, then histori-cal time cannot be understood as a zero- sum game illustrating either tran-scendent moral progress or the persistent replication of domination in novel frameworks, but instead as a brittle accumulation of victories and defeats that are always provisional and uncertain.

Women were a constant recurring plot in European oil painting. Adam and Eve were the first nudes. Their nakedness represented shame. Over time, these conventions have changed and nakedness of Adam and Eve transformed into a kind of game with the audience. According to Berger, nakedness and nude are completely different concepts. To be naked means to be yourself, without any mask. At the same time, nude is to expose oneself to the viewer, i.e. permission to see yourself naked. I had my own experience working with nude, but not as a model, but as a painter. I was a student at the University of Architecture in my hometown. After graduation, I professionally worked as a photographer. In both cases, I had to work with nudity. At the university, we often painted the naked bodies of antique statues. However, later working as a photographer I often received orders for a nude-style photo session.

Gun control promised a protracted,high-stakes contest among key political players, the sort of political debatethat fits easily into the ‘‘game schema’’ favored by many Washington re-porters

Literally, an arcade game in which the player uses a small rubber mallet to hit robotic toy moles that pop up randomly in holes laid out across the surface of the machine.

(7/n) This is reminiscent of what we called "information cascades" where decisions are made based on a mix of public (copycat) and private (watching the news) information. This has a game theory flavour because m_xy encodes the altruism of wearing masks.

In various types of structured communities newcomers choose their interaction partners by selecting a role-model and copying their social networks. Participants in these networks may be cooperators who contribute to the prosperity of the community, or cheaters who do not and simply exploit the cooperators. For newcomers it is beneficial to interact with cooperators but detrimental to interact with cheaters. However, cheaters and cooperators usually cannot be identified unambiguously and newcomers’ decisions are often based on a combination of private and public information. We use evolutionary game theory and dynamical networks to demonstrate how the specificity and sensitivity of those decisions can dramatically affect the resilience of cooperation in the community. We show that promiscuous decisions (high sensitivity, low specificity) are advantageous for cooperation when the strength of competition is weak; however, if competition is strong then the best decisions for cooperation are risk-adverse (low sensitivity, high specificity). Opportune decisions based on private and public information can still support cooperation but suffer of the presence of information cascades that damage cooperation, especially in the case of strong competition. Our research sheds light on the way the interplay of specificity and sensitivity in individual decision-making affects the resilience of cooperation in dynamical structured communities.

Good games pull you in and carry you through a journey that remains engaging, using an evolving balance of challenges and a stream of well crafted, actionable feedback.

The teacher seeks to extend the children’s intellec-tual stamina and attention span; increase their range of investigation strategies; enhance their concentration and effort; and still allow them to fully experience pleasure and joy in the game

The platoon did this after every successful engagement, treating the debriefs as a chalk talk after a football game, effectively allowing them to consistently engage the enemy and never lose their humanity through their deployment. 

The platoon did this after every successful engagement, treating the debriefs as a chalk talk after a football game, effectively allowing them to consistently engage the enemy and never lose their humanity through their deployment. 

      “Now,” said the first, “we’re two, and I dare say The two of us are stronger than is one. 540 Watch when he sits, and soon as that is done Arise and make as if with him to play; And I will thrust him through the two sides, yea, The while you romp with him as in a game, And with your dagger see you do the same;

A 2008 study found that one out of five casual video game players had a physical impairment of some sort.

The current video game audience is largely split down the middle when it comes to men and women (54% vs 46%).

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The legal system, Horwitz argued, was used to not only change the rules of the game to benefit an increasingly elite class, but also to hide the fact that these changes were being made.  This is a great argument. What it needs is some people in the story to show how it happened and how people reacted, assuming anyone on the short end of the transaction knew it was happening. This raises an interesting question: how do we tell stories about things we now see were happening, but that people of the time were unaware of, either because the evidence was hidden, or they just didn’t see things the way we do? Especially when people knew something was wrong, but couldn’t quite put their finger on it -- or blamed it on the wrong thing? The story isn’t just about unintended consequences, it’s about misunderstood consequences.

The idea behind Open Science is to allow scientific information, data and outputs to be more widely accessible (Open Access) and more reliably harnessed (Open Data) with the active engagement of all the stakeholders (Open to Society). By encouraging science to be more connected to societal needs and by promoting equal opportunities for all (scientists, policy-makers and citizens), Open Science can be a true game changer in bridging the science, technology and innovation gaps between and within countries and fulfilling the human right to science.

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least worth the loss of my life, who’d learn the truth. Only inasmuch as you are my uncle, am I praised: No bounty but your blood in my body I know.

He challenges King Arthur to a beheading game

Although trust plays a pivotal role in many aspects of life, very little is known about the manifestation of trust and distrust in everyday life. In this work, we integrated several prior approaches to trust and investigated the prevalence and key determinants of trust (vs. distrust) in people’s natural environments, using preregistered experience-sampling methodology. Across more than 4,500 social interactions from a heterogeneous sample of 427 participants, results showed high average levels of trust, but also considerable variability in trust across contexts. This variability was attributable to aspects of trustee perception, social distance, as well as three key dimensions of situational interdependence: conflict of interests, information (un)certainty, and power imbalance. At the dispositional level, average everyday trust was shaped by general trust, moral identity, and zero-sum beliefs. The social scope of most trust-related traits, however, was moderated by social distance: Whereas moral identity buffered against distrusting distant targets, high general distrust and low social value orientation amplified trust differences between close vs. distant others. Furthermore, a laboratory-based trust game predicted everyday trust only with regard to more distant but not close interaction partners. Finally, everyday trust was linked to self-disclosure and to cooperation, particularly in situations of high conflict between interaction partners’ interests. We conclude that trust can be conceptualized as a relational hub that interconnects the social perception of the trustee, the relational closeness between trustor and trustee, key structural features of situational interdependence, and behavioral response options such as self-disclosure.

teachers is that they can create a similar environment by turning the classroom into a sort of house party where people feel comfortable and relaxed.

The powerful attraction of social media in classrooms

potent, antique, exotic, and anachronistic

Europeans found no fences, no signs designating ownership. Land, and the game that populated it, they believed, were there for the taking.

but is unable to.

or play more powerful

We all know what it means to become addicted to nicotine, alcohol, heroin, or other drugs. It means that we have serious, physical withdrawal symptoms when we stop using the drug, so we are driven to continue using it even when we know it is hurting us and we very much want to stop.

Venom War" storyline.

Flute Theatre’s game-based production of Pericles, performed for one family at a time, is designed to create a sense of calm

It's hard to think of anything we do nowadays, from working on projects for work or school to socializing with friends, that is not somehow mediated through digital technologies. It's not just that we're doing 'old things' in 'new ways'

Conspiracy theorists are using a new chat app to ‘gamify’ the spread of dangerous misinformation including coronavirus conspiracies, Holocaust denial and far right racism. Thousands of users frequent ‘servers’ on Discord, a voice and text chat platform for gamers, where participants can rack up points for posting conspiracy theories and cash them in for rewards.

in a game of croquet she was playing againstherself, for this curious child was very fond ofpretending to be two people.

“a game changer.”

Statecraft X is a 24/7 persistent-world, multiplayer game for students to construct meaning and identities in the context of citizenship education and social studies.

integrates STEM practices as core game mechanics and allows players to learn by doing in authentic contexts

aking into consideration the larger ecosystem of schools and districts that the game would be functioning within

MMO-style game

Twenty-two teams presented

“As faculty, you notice that students come in with different levels of comfort when talking to you. But students who participated in the Futures Design Challenge will already have a topic to discuss with their professors.”

Game of Clue(s)

So Emergence provides familiar game style interfaces to manage your Digital Soul, making the whole Metaverse one big Massively Multiplayer Role Playing Game (MMORPG). The interface is available in games, virtual worlds and virtual and augmented reality, and users can install a free browser plugin and mobile app for access any time.

“I think they still have preconceived notions of how women will present themselves, and I don’t fit in that box.”

o the distinction of game-based learning andgamification. What exactly is meant by gamification varieswidely, but one of its defining qualities is that it involvesthe use of game elements, s

Signature Pedagogies

Common unhealthy eating practices are overeating and undereating. The Game On! program provides ways to support and encourage boys and young men to prepare healthy foods and take on some responsibility for their own food intake.

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One thing that would certainly be a game-changer would be some form of standardized RCS end-to-end encryption that allows secure messages to be sent outside Google Messages.

A couple of years after WhatsApp, Apple jumped into the game with iMessage—its obvious drawback, that senders and recipients had to be using iPhones, was overcome by integration with the standard SMS platform on those phones. If a recipient was not on iMessage or was offline, the message would revert to SMS.

The problem I have with this game is that i'm only playing it 50%. The other 50% is chance and that's because I can't control my own AI team players. They stumble, fumble, react late, missplaced, run in the wrong direction, stop running and are just acting like unexperienced 6th division players. Especially defensive players. I'm not struggling against any opponent more than I'm struggle to make my own players do as I tell them to.

Ensure your mentee has access to the necessary technology to carry out the project they will undertake.You have shared background readings relevant to the work your mentee will undertake over the summer and communicate to them what you want them to get out of reading the material (e.g. come up with three questions per reading, write a short summary, underline all the terms that are new to you, etc.).Find out about any additional commitments that your mentee has that are part of their virtual SR-EIP. Many virtual SR-EIP programs will include programming that is supplemental to the research experience that can be discipline-specific, enrichment oriented, intended to provide and build a supportive network. or a combination of all three. For example, many SR-EIP participants are members of mandatory seminars, take GRE classes, and participate in mandatory social outings. These commitments are important to the success of the program. Keep them in mind as you plan out the work that your mentee will do during the summer. Reach out to your program’s summer program coordinator for more information.Inquire about your mentee’s responsibilities at home. Many students may also be caregivers or have jobs while at home. You and your mentee will need to adjust the work they are doing to accommodate those responsibilities. Emphasize the goal of adjusting the project when inquiring about students competing responsibilities. The goal is to avoid putting the student on the spot by creating a conflict between the work you want them to do and their family obligations. Given the extraordinary pressures created by social distancing, a little compassion and flexibility here goes a long way.Have a conversation with the coordinator for the SR-EIP program at your campus to be briefed on what they will be doing to help onboard your mentee. Also, reach out to someone from your mentee’s home campus to try to get a sense of where your mentee will be coming from. If your mentee is coming from a Leadership Alliance institution, speak to your mentee’s Institutional Coordinator and faculty advisor. They will have the greatest familiarity with SR-EIP as a whole, as well as your mentee’s academic profile. If the mentee will be working with someone else on your research team, have a videoconference with that person to coordinate expectations and encourage that person to reach out to the mentee directly before the program begins. Plan some introductory activities for the mentee such as a virtual tour of the campus via Google Street View, a team Zoom meeting, departmental Zoom seminar, or a get-to-know-you virtual tabletop game night the research team, etc.

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  “They can use this tour, even bring their console into the classroom if they want to, without any danger.”

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Prosocial behaviours are encountered in the donation game, the prisoner’s dilemma, relaxed social dilemmas and public goods games. Many studies assume that the population structure is homogeneous, meaning that all individuals have the same number of interaction partners or that the social good is of one particular type. Here, we explore general evolutionary dynamics for arbitrary spatial structures and social goods. We find that heterogeneous networks, in which some individuals have many more interaction partners than others, can enhance the evolution of prosocial behaviours. However, they often accumulate most of the benefits in the hands of a few highly connected individuals, while many others receive low or negative payoff. Surprisingly, selection can favour producers of social goods even if the total costs exceed the total benefits. In summary, heterogeneous structures have the ability to strongly promote the emergence of prosocial behaviours, but they also create the possibility of generating large inequality.

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Children as young as 3-4 years are already concerned about inequality and declare that equality is a norm that should be followed. From 3 to 8 years they develop a strong preference for equality, which is typically reflected in both “envy” and “compassion”, that is, aversion to disadvantageous and advantageous inequality, respectively4. Further studies suggest that inequality aversion does not continue increasing after that age, but rather exhibit an inverse-U shape relation with age in childhood and adolescence, with a peak at 8 years old. Since children are particularly sensitive to inequality at the age of 8, it is an open question how exposure to real economic inequality at this age modulates prosocial behaviour in adult life. Here we link generosity in dictator game experiments conducted among Spanish university students (n>400) with existing macro-level data on income inequality within their region when they were children. The data show that individuals who were exposed to higher levels of inequality at the age of 8 are more generous in adult life. Interestingly, exposure at older ages has no impact on generosity. Our results extend previous findings on the development of egalitarianism by showing long-lasting effects of childhood inequality experience into adult life. If prosocial behaviour is (partly) developed as a reaction to an unequal environment then, in the future, inequality might be counteracted.

Conspiracy theorists have turned Covid misinformation and racial hatred into a video game

Why is a college writing course even necessary?

From a game theoretic standpoint, we’ve already lost. Too many of our civil society adversaries have too much of our data, and we have so little of theirs.

However, he says there are apps that help citizens choose which data they share, leading to a more efficient tracking of the virus. “If people can decide themselves if they want to participate or not, then we have privacy-friendly alternatives. That’s a game changer.”

However, he says there are apps that help citizens choose which data they share, leading to a more efficient tracking of the virus. “If people can decide themselves if they want to participate or not, then we have privacy-friendly alternatives. That’s a game changer.”Some analysts worry that the data sets could be put to other uses in the future. 

However, he says there are apps that help citizens choose which data they share, leading to a more efficient tracking of the virus. “If people can decide themselves if they want to participate or not, then we have privacy-friendly alternatives. That’s a game changer.”

what is typically a one-time, zero-sum, single-player transaction with short time-horizons into an iterative, positive-sum, multi-player game with long time-horizons.

Oonch neech ka paapadaKalamkaar ka fawadaGurgaon ka majdoor tuApni hi kabar khod raha hai baawla

In terms of their border dispute, India and China are struggling with what game theorists refer to as a “commitment problem.” Meaning A commitment problem arises when two states, who would be better off in the present if they consented to a mutually beneficial agreement, are unable to resolve their disputes due to different expectations of future strengths, and a consequent inability to commit to future bargaining power or a division of benefits.

COVID-19 presents humanity with one of the greatest health and economic crises of the 21st Century. Because COVID-19 has already begun to precipitate a huge increase in mental health problems, we believe that clinical science must also play a leadership role in guiding a national response to this secondary crisis. In this article, we explain why COVID-19 is a game-changer, as a unique, compounding, multi-dimensional stressor that will create a vast need for intervention, and necessitate new paradigms for mental health service delivery and training. We highlight the most urgent challenge areas for clinical science, including managing potential spikes in depression, anxiety, and suicide, and address the unique COVID-19-related needs across the lifespan and the challenges that COVID-19 places on families and relationships. Clinical science also will need to address the mental health of medical care workers, mitigate health disparities, and address stigma among the most vulnerable as the pandemic unfolds. For each challenge area, we suggest research directions, clinical approaches, and policy issues that need to be considered. We then discuss how to enable multi-level deployment of potential solutions and how clinical science must itself adapt to identify and deliver these solutions. We conclude by highlighting new areas for clinical science discovery and additional funding needs. Advances in clinical science implementation—propelled by COVID-19—will likely endure long beyond the pandemic.

Trails are guided learning paths through modules and projects that help you cover the most ground in the shortest amount of time. Consider them your personal game plan for exploring new skills.

Choose ANTARCTICA as "delivery country" if you want to pick up the game in Maastricht or other agreed place.

When memes or the subjects of a meme are used for commercial purposes without permission, the meme creator may sue, as the effect of the commercial use on the market value of the original meme usually prevents a finding of fair use. In 2013, the owners of the cats featured in the “Nyan Cat” and “Keyboard Cat” memes won a lawsuit against Warner Bros. and 5th Cell Media for respectively distributing and producing a video game using images of their cats.

When memes or the subjects of a meme are used for commercial purposes without permission, the meme creator may sue, as the effect of the commercial use on the market value of the original meme usually prevents a finding of fair use. In 2013, the owners of the cats featured in the “Nyan Cat” and “Keyboard Cat” memes won a lawsuit against Warner Bros. and 5th Cell Media for respectively distributing and producing a video game using images of their cats.

In evolutionary terms, certainly, because the individuals that show these traits have a higher chance of survival in the long term.

With concise, streamlined rules and a taut gameplay that’s consistently having you gauge your options every turn, this is a game that provides weighted, worthwhile decisions while eschewing unnecessary complexity.

This game is more complicated and, at least at first glance, a bit more obtuse.  But in the good sense of obtuse. The strategies are not clearly evident from the rules read and certainly not through the first play(s).

Essential Commodities Act (ECA) of 1955, bringing a Central legislation to allow farmers to sell their produce to anyone, outside the APMC mandi yard, and having barrier-free inter-state trade, and creating a legal framework for contract farming — the buyer can assure a price to the farmer at the time of sowing. Let me explain each one of these, and why I consider them as game-changers.

The combination of peer-to-peer technology with distributed-hash-tables and cryptographic keys is setting the stage for a different game.

Father, there is a man, unlike any other, who comes down from the hills. He is the strongest in the world, he is like an immortal from heaven. He ranges over the hills with wild beasts and eats grass; the ranges through your land andcomes down to the wells. I am afraid and dare not go near him. He fills in the pits which I dig and tears up-my traps set for the game; he helps the beasts to escape and now they slip through my fingers.'His father opened his mouth and said to the trapper, ‘My son, in Uruk lives Gilgamesh; no one has ever pre-vailed against him, he is strong as a star from heaven. Go to Uruk, find Gilgamesh, extol the strength of this wild man. Ask him to give you a harlot, a wanton from the temple of love; return with her, and let her woman's power overpower this man. When next he comes down to drink at the wells she will be there, stripped naked; and when he sees her beckoning he will embrace her, and then the wild beasts will reject him.

I congratulate you," he said. "You have won the game

One almost did win. I eventually had to use the dogs

"Oh," said the general, "I give him his option, of course. He need not play that game if he doesn't wish to. If he does not wish to hunt, I turn him over to Ivan. Ivan once had the honor of serving as official knouter to the Great White Czar, and he has his own ideas of sport. Invariably, Mr. Rainsford, invariably they choose the hunt."

The general shrugged his shoulders and delicately ate a hothouse grape. "As you wish, my friend," he said. "The choice rests entirely with you. But may I not venture to suggest that you will find my idea of sport more diverting than Ivan's?"

"It's a game, you see," pursued the general blandly. "I suggest to one of them that we go hunting. I give him a supply of food and an excellent hunting knife. I give him three hours' start. I am to follow, armed only with a pistol of the smallest caliber and range. If my quarry eludes me for three whole days, he wins the game. If I find him "—the general smiled—" he loses."

dangerous game.

A man, who had been hiding in the curtains of the bed, was standing there."Rainsford!" screamed the general. "How in God's name did you get here?""Swam," said Rainsford. "I found it quicker than walking through the jungle."The general sucked in his breath and smiled. "I congratulate you," he said. "You have won the game."Rainsford did not smile. "I am still a beast at bay," he said, in a low, hoarse voice. "Get ready, General Zaroff."The general made one of his deepest bows. "I see," he said. "Splendid! One of us is to furnish a repast for the hounds. The other will sleep in this very excellent bed. On guard, Rainsford." . . .He had never slept in a better bed, Rainsford decided.

"You'll find this game worth playing," the general said enthusiastically." Your brain against mine. Your woodcraft against mine. Your strength and stamina against mine. Outdoor chess! And the stake is not without value, eh?""And if I win—" began Rainsford huskily."I'll cheerfully acknowledge myself defeat if I do not find you by midnight of the third day," said General Zaroff. "My sloop will place you on the mainland near a town." The general read what Rainsford was thinking."Oh, you can trust me," said the Cossack. "I will give you my word as a gentleman and a sportsman. Of course you, in turn, must agree to say nothing of your visit here.""I'll agree to nothing of the kind," said Rainsford."Oh," said the general, "in that case. . . But why discuss that now? Three

"It's a game, you see," pursued the general blandly. "I suggest to one of them that we go hunting. I give him a supply of food and an excellent hunting knife. I give him three hours' start. I am to follow, armed only with a pistol of the smallest caliber and range. If my quarry eludes me for three whole days, he wins the game. If I find him "—the general smiled—" he loses.""Suppose he refuses to be hunted?""Oh," said the general, "I give him his option, of course. He need not play that game if he doesn't wish to. If he does not wish to hunt, I turn him over to Ivan. Ivan once had the honor of serving as official knouter to the Great White Czar, and he has his own ideas of sport. Invariably, Mr. Rainsford, invariably they choose the hunt.""And if they win?"The smile on the general's face widened. "To date I have not lost," he said. Then he added, hastily: "I don't wish you to think me a braggart, Mr. Rainsford. Many of them afford only the most elementary sort of problem. Occasionally I strike a tartar. One almost did win. I eventually had to use the dogs."

The general filled both glasses, and said, "God makes some men poets. Some He makes kings, some beggars. Me He made a hunter. My hand was made for the trigger, my father said. He was a very rich man with a quarter of a million acres in the Crimea, and he was an ardent sportsman. When I was only five years old he gave me a little gun, specially made in Moscow for me, to shoot sparrows with. When I shot some of his prize turkeys with it, he did not punish me; he complimented me on my marksmanship. I killed my first bear in the Caucasus when I was ten. My whole life has been one prolonged hunt. I went into the army—it was expected of noblemen's sons—and for a time commanded a division of Cossack cavalry, but my real interest was always the hunt. I have hunted every kind of game in every land. It would be impossible for me to tell you how many animals I have killed."

"I've always thought," said Rainsford, "that the Cape buffalo is the most dangerous of all big game."

The Most Dangerous Game

that the Cape buffalo is the most dangerous of all big game.

The general made one of his deepest bows. "I see," he said. "Splendid! One of us is to furnish a repast for the hounds. The other will sleep in this very excellent bed. On guard, Rainsford." . . .He had never slept in a better bed, Rainsford decided.

"But what game—" began Rainsford."I'll tell you," said the general. "You will be amused, I know. I think I may say, in all modesty, that I have done a rare thing. I have invented a new sensation. May I pour you another glass of port?"

But there was one small trait of the general's that made Rainsford uncomfortable.

"It's a game, you see," pursued the general blandly. "I suggest to one of them that we go hunting. I give him a supply of food and an excellent hunting knife. I give him three hours' start. I am to follow, armed only with a pistol of the smallest caliber and range. If my quarry eludes me for three whole days, he wins the game. If I find him "—the general smiled—" he loses."

The general filled both glasses, and said, "God makes some men poets. Some He makes kings, some beggars. Me He made a hunter. My hand was made for the trigger, my father said. He was a very rich man with a quarter of a million acres in the Crimea, and he was an ardent sportsman. When I was only five years old he gave me a little gun, specially made in Moscow for me, to shoot sparrows with. When I shot some of his prize turkeys with it, he did not punish me; he complimented me on my marksmanship. I killed my first bear in the Caucasus when I was ten. My whole life has been one prolonged hunt. I went into the army—it was expected of noblemen's sons—and for a time commanded a division of Cossack cavalry, but my real interest was always the hunt. I have hunted every kind of game in every land. It would be impossible for me to tell you how many animals I have killed."

For a moment the general did not reply; he was smiling his curious red-lipped smile. Then he said slowly, "No. You are wrong, sir. The Cape buffalo is not the most dangerous big game." He sipped his wine. "Here in my preserve on this island," he said in the same slow tone, "I hunt more dangerous game."

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