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What are some online games that make it fun to learn how to type?

In "Typing Factory," players are in front of a conveyor belt with letters going by them. In order to win each level, players must type the letters in order. With "The Typing of the Ghost," players type the words found on the growing ghost. After typing the word, the ghost disappears, but if a ghost gets too large, the player loses a life.

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What do you get when you cross a supermarket with a jungle?

The answer to this joke uses the word "lions" as a pun for the word "lines". Puns are a type of joke that use words that have one or more meanings or that sound similar to each other. In this joke, the supermarket has checkout lines where customers wait to pay for their items, and the word "lines" sounds similar to "lions," which are large cats that live in the jungle.\nPuns have been used throughout literature. The famous playwright William Shakespeare used many puns in his plays and sonnets both as jokes and to give richer meaning to his character's dialogue.

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What are some easy card tricks for beginners?

The Double Lift involves lifting two cards from the deck at once, but making them appear as a single card. The Pinky Break refers to when the magician uses his pinky finger to mark where a spectator drew a card from the deck or to gain better control of the deck when performing any sleight of hand. The Elmsley Count is a technique used by a performer to hide certain cards in the deck and make the deck appear smaller. The performer uses the False Cut to give to give the appearance of shuffling a deck of cards, although the order of the cards actually remains the same.

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What are some robot games designed for kids?

In "Robot and Monster: Go Go Ogo!," players must run two characters down a crowded street while preventing a robot from catching up to them. Players make both characters jump at certain times to avoid running into to others along the street, which slows their progress.\nChildren get the chance to build their own robots in "Robot Workshop." Players choose a head, body and feet. There are details to customize in each category, including eyes, feet, paint color, mouths and more. Player can create multiple robots at the same time.

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What are some Free Cell card game variations?

In standard Free Cell, cards are dealt in eight tableau piles with all cards in the piles showing. The player deals seven cards to each of the first four tableau piles and six cards to each of the remaining four. The object of the game is to move cards from the tableau piles to the foundation piles above from ace to king in order. There is one foundation pile for each suit and four free cells the player may move cards to from the top of the tableau piles in order to reach the cards below.

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What are some flying Santa Claus games?

In "Super Santa Kicker," Santa flies through the air after a swift kick from Rudolph and tries to land in the chimney with his gifts. Players work with angles to find a way to get Santa past any obstacles and into the chimney.\nIn "Santa Claus Flying," players help Santa fly towards the children's houses while avoiding obstacles in his path by clicking the mouse. Obstacles include things such as balloons, birds, bad weather and witches on brooms.

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What are some companies that produce or sell kendama toys?

Kendama Custom Kreations is a New Brighton, Pennsylvania-based company that manufactures unique, hand-made, premium kendamas according to customer specifications. Using locally sourced wood and materials, the company individually lathes and paints each customizable kendama. As of 2015, the company wants expand its customer base and distribution network and is seeking investors.\nOnline retailer Amazon.com sells a variety of colorful and beautifully painted kendamas. Among its sellers are Kendama Kraze, which sells the toys in samurai-inspired designs; Toysmith, which sells kendamas in assorted..

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What are the combat arms ranks?

Players advance in rank by completing matches and earning EXP points. The ranks that players must advance through in the Grunt level include Training or Recruit, Private, Private First Class, Corporal and Sergeant.\nOnce a player moves past the Sergeant designation, the player moves on to the Field Officer rank level. In this level, there are four different designations that players must achieve: Staff Sergeant, Sergeant First Class, Master Sergeant and Command Sergeant Major.\n"Combat Arms" features three different levels within the Commissioned Officer level: Second Lieutenant, First Lieuten..

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What are some really funny jokes?

Some more funny jokes are: "Toughest job I ever had: selling doors, door to door," "The New England Journal of Medicine reports that nine out of 10 doctors agree that one out of 10 doctors is an idiot," "You know you’re getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you’re down there" and "I went to a restaurant that serves breakfast at any time. So I ordered 'French Toast during the Renaissance.'"\nA few more jokes are: "I never got along with my dad. Kids used to come up to me and say, 'My dad can beat up your dad.' I'd s..

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How much is a pound of pennies worth?

Pennies minted from 1909 to 1982 weigh 3.11 grams each, making a pound of those coins worth $1.45. The only differing weight during that time belongs to the 1943 zinc pennies, which weigh about 2.70 grams each due to their lack of copper. A pound of 1943 pennies is worth about $1.68.

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