How To: Play charades to win
It's a movie! No, it's a book! First word sounds like... does any of this sound familiar? Either way, check out these tips and you can be a pro at the world's quintessential party game: charades.
It's a movie! No, it's a book! First word sounds like... does any of this sound familiar? Either way, check out these tips and you can be a pro at the world's quintessential party game: charades.
Impress co-workers, show your mom you care, win over the girl you stalk, or just waste paper! Origami is an art that is older than you and I, and learning how to make a crane is the easiest and, in my opinion, best way to show off your paper folding skills. Watch this video to learn this easy origami project.
Learn how the pro's play no limit Texas Hold'em. This Texas Hold'em how to video gives tips to improve your poker strategy and increase your bankroll.
Learn how to play poker against a tight aggressive player or "the winner" in Texas Hold'em. This video teaches you strategies for winning against this player.
Learn how to play against the tight passive player or "the rock" in Texas Hold'em. This video teaches you strategies for winning against this player.
Learn how to play your hand in no limit Texas Hold'em after the river. Learn what strong poker players typically do and how you should react to figure out what you should do to get the best odds for winning the hand. Master the game of Texas Hold'em!
Learn how to play and win in a loose gmae of Texas Hold'em. This is an excellent resource for beginner poker players
Learn how to calculate your pot odds in Texas Hold'em and becoming a winning player.
Try to guess which hand is the best before the flop, after the flop and after the river.
Learn how to play against "the calling station" or a loose passive player in Texas Hold'em. This video teaches you how to win against this type of player.
If you're a Win XP user you know frustrating it can be using the command prompt... especially if you need to type a long string of commands, or worse, a subdirectory. Tekzilla shows you how to do this easily
Scientists of the University of Twente in the Netherlands won a prestigious place in the 'Hall of Fame' of videos about fluid-in-motion. They have made a video of leaping shampoo, in which they explain the so-called Kaye effect. Scientifically interesting, but also of great aesthetic beauty! Get out your shampoo and try it yourself.
Gorgiev's 1928 game. Black is stuck in the corner. See how to let White win with this cute trick of keeping Black stuck in the mud.
In this 1914 chess game by Holm, White needs to get a new queen with the pawn. See how White can win by chasing Black's rook around.
This is a cool chess lecture on pawn endgames. This is the very basics to learning how to use your pawns to finish the game. They're difficult, but possible, so watch carefully, so you won't have such a hard time winning.
Learn some simple, general chess opening principles. If you're a beginner, then this is the place for you! Learn fool's mate and some ordinary sacrifices to win the game.
This explores Bobby Fischer's opening strategies versus various openings. This video looks at his tactical use of the King's Indian Defense against a Queen's pawn game. Of particular interest is Fischer's strength in maintaining the tension of the position until an opportunity arises. The match took place in 1971 against Mark Taimanov, with Fischer winning.
New to the sport of archery? Maybe you're trying to hunt that perfect buck? Whatever the case may be, sport or hunting, this eight-part video tutorial series will help improve your beginner skills, to start you on your way to becoming a great archer.
Learn how to juggle! Jason Garfield is one of the best professional jugglers in the world, especially when it comes having a disciplined technical form. He has won the advanced ball competition (5 - 7 balls) several years in a row now. This video is good because it will teach you the best posture and techniques for juggling from day one, so you will ready if you want to move to more advanced patterns
Orchid care isn't as difficult as you think, and to discover the orchid care secrets, Meghan Carter visited award-winning orchid breeder Dick Wells. There she discovered the best technique for growing orchids.
This is a short video to ensure that you fit your wiper blades for a squeak and smear free swipe to provide perfect vision. The TP Performance blades won the auto express award of excellence.
In this episode, Brandon Jackson joins D.Lee Beard to present an in-depth review of the Slingbox A/V, explore where to find free downloadable audiobooks online, and to answer viewer questions on using an iMac as a display and how to share files over a local network between a Mac and a Windows PC . Be sure to check out our next video to learn how you can win the Techies' Slingbox and begin watching your home TV from all over the world via the internet.
How to smoke real cigarette down to the filter without ever ashing it using this trick. Fool your friends, or maybe win a few bar bets.
Award winning TV Chef Oonagh Williams from Royal Temptations demonstrates her easy taco dip recipe.
The ritual battles for dominance is a key factor in which animals get to have intercourse and which do not. Eventually someone wins and carries on their genes. Understand this example of survival of the fittest.
Professional mechanic and emmy award winning car talk host Scotty Kilmer shows how to check your vehicle's suspension system out.
Cool bet with beer and vodka. Great trick to play on friends and earn money.
How to fold the MIT logo in Origami in 3 Easy Steps: In this video I demonstrate how to fold the MIT seal "Mens et Manus", my original origami design, and one of the winning entries for the 2006-2007 MIT Origami contest.
This week, in celebration of Tim Burtons new movie Sweeney Todd, Thread Heads hangs out with the Oscar award winning costume designer, Colleen Atwood, in this instructional video. Plus we turn some neighborhood thrift store finds into some Sweeney Todd inspired Victorian trash outfits. This is one how-to video you won't want to miss.
This is an FSX tutorial on how to win against a jet truck. This is a flight simulation exercise.
Real Hustle TV shows you a bar trick that you can use to win bets. The challenge is to pull a bill out from under a stack of coins balanced on the rim of a glass without upsetting the coins.
An easy coin toss magic trick involving palming that will allow you to manipulate the outcome of a coin toss.
Are you not quite sure what slow playing mean in poker terms. You should only slow play when your hand is very strong and the odds of the next card giving your opponents a stronger hand very small. Master the art of slow playing and win more hands than before.
A welted pocket (also called a jetted pocket or piped pocket) is a pocket where it appears just to be a thin slit in the fabric of the garment. Ideal for when you are making something you want to have pockets, but don't want to necessarily draw much attention to them - such as tailored suit jackets or streamlined dresses. All you need to learn this technique are some basic sewing notions (scissors, pins, etc) and either bias tape or the ability to cut your own bias tape from your fashion fabric.
Are you smarter than the average bear? Show the world by using Yogi Bear as your Black Ops playercard emblem. This clip will teach you everything you'll need to know to draw a custom Homer Simpson emblem in the Call of Duty: Black Ops Emblem Editor.
We don't know how the ombre hair trend got started, but if nothing else it certainly is interesting. Like ombre clothes, ombre hair fades from one color to another, like watercolor painting. On hair this means a deep brown on the crown of the head fading into a light blond on the tips, for instance.
Are your relatives coming over for Thanksgiving? It's probably hard enough entertaining the adults with conversation while trying to keep the kids from drawing on your walls, and probably even harder when some of your relatives only speak a foreign language that you don't speak.
In this tutorial, we learn how to spice up your eyeliner with a double line style. To start, use gel eyeliner with a small and pointed brush to paint thin strokes onto the top of your lash line. From here, you will draw a line with the liner that goes from the inside of your eye to the outer edge of your eye, creating a high wing. After this, you will do the same thing, except on the bottom lash line of your eye. The wing on the bottom of the eye should end up under the one on top so they are...
We are totally smitten with this Spider Queen/Black Widow makeup look because it's equal parts enchanting and icky. This Halloween look takes the fall purple trend to new heights, exaggerating the eyes with intense blue purple swoops of color and the lips enrobed in a deep black-based blue. Spiderwebs drawn on above the brows and mini spiders glue on just give us the heebie jeebies.
You may be wondering why the heck Medusa looks so pretty in this makeup tutorial, given that she was a horrific, menacing monster with snakes shooting out of her head. Well, before she was turned into a creature who could turn men into stone with a single glance, she was actually quite hot.