Vocabulary Games:Let's Play

Try this fun quiz to check your understanding of English idioms. To learn more about an individual idiom, click on the"more about this idiom" link.
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more about this idiom: (it's) raining cats and dogs

more about this idiom: a fair-weather friend

more about this idiom: a ray of sunshine

more about this idiom: have your head in the clouds

more about this idiom: make hay while the sun shines

more about this idiom: quick as a flash | quick as a wink | quick as lightning

more about this idiom: snowed under

more about this idiom: under a cloud

more about this idiom: under the weather

more about this idiom: weather a storm

John Adams (1735 -1826) was the _____________________________ President of the United States of America. He was President from 1797 until 1801. His Vice-President was Thomas _____________________________.John Adams was born in Quincy, Massachusetts. His father was a _____________________________.Adams graduated from _____________________________ University in 1755,and went on to become a _____________________________ in Boston.Adams was a delegate to both the First and Second Continental Congresses, and helped
_____________________________ the Declaration of
_____________________________. In 1789, Adams was elected the first Vice-President of the US, serving two _____________________________
under President George _____________________________.Adams was elected
President in _____________________________, barely beating Thomas Jefferson, who became his Vice-President. John Adams was the first President to live in the _____________________________; his family moved there in 1800. Adams' term as President was often controversial and _____________________________; he limited free _____________________________ rights, curtailed the freedom of the press, and made it diffficult to become a
_____________________________ of the USA. Adams' political party, the Federalist Party, soon disappeared.
On March 4, 1826,Adams' ________________________ John Quincy Adams became the
_____________________________ President of the USA. John Adams died on
________________________ 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. _____________________________Jefferson had died earlier that same day. They were the only two
_____________________________ of the Declaration of Independence that were elected _____________________________ of the USA.

Boatzee is very similar to a famous, well-known dice game. The object is to roll 5 dice up to 3 times, and score higher than your opponent at the end of the game.

When you pull up a Boatzee board, you will see 5 dice at the top of the screen. To re-roll one or more dice, click on the dice you want to re-roll, and a red border will appear around the dice. When you have selected all the dice you want to re-roll.

NOTE: you can also click on selected dice to "unselect" it. Clicking the same dice will alternate between selected and unselected.You can re-roll up to 2 times. After your 2nd re-roll, you'll need to choose a category to score your roll (described below).Once you click "Re-roll dice" that action is permanent, even if you click on "Start this move over", and even if you leave the site for a few hours or a few days. Once you re-roll, your previous dice are lost forever.This is to prevent players from re-rolling again and again looking for good rolls. So make sure the dice are selected correctly before you click on the re-roll link.
Scoring:

If you are unsure how a category scores, go ahead and click in that spot,and our computers will show you the score. You have the option of changing your mind and choosing another category by clicking the "Start this move over"located below the board. You can also use this link to clear any dice you've clicked,or you can clear the dice by clicking on them one at a time.Each category can only be used once per game. If you do not meet the conditions for a category, you will score 0. You MUST fill in one category per turn-- you may not pass a turn even if you get a bad roll.

In every game where there's an element of chance, there's always the question of whether the dice are "fair", so we are adding this section to tell you how the dice are generated on ItsYourTurn.com.We've pre-rolled a huge number of dice sets (5 dice to a set),which are stored in a table ready to be used.You will always get a set of 5 dice even if you're requesting fewer than 5(on a re-roll, for instance). The dice that you do not use are discarded.The dice are handed out sequentially depending on the order in which they are requested. With the amount of traffic that we receive on ItsYourTurn.com,dice sets are handed out at the rate of several sets per second.The exact dice you get depends on the order that the requests are made. Since there are tens of thousands of players continuously requesting dice 24 hours a day, there is no way to control ahead of time which dice you will get. The speed with which your request travels through the Internet and through our servers will determine which dice you receive, and a difference of milliseconds will give you completely different dice.Even if you were fast enough to make two requests in a row, the dice have been randomly rolled and are randomly ordered. There is absolutely no pattern between adjacent sets.

The program that selects the dice is completely independent of the Boatzee game logic.It does not know who you are, what your board is, or which dice you're looking for.All it does is select the very next set of dice and returns it to you, and it
does this several times per second. A few milliseconds of Internet network delay in either direction would result in you receiving a completely different set of dice.The program does not favor either you or your opponent.It does not know that you need a 6 and then deliberately gives you other numbers. It does not know who the dice are for, so it is unable to give your opponent perfect dice and then give you rotten dice.Everyone on the site uses the same set of dice, so even if the dice are skewed (they aren't), they would be equally skewed for everyone.

Once a set of dice is used, it is discarded. We regularly roll new dice to be used,so that no sequence of dice is ever the same. We have already rolled several hundred million dice, and new random dice are added all the time. We do not reuse past dice rolls.For an even longer discussion of the randomness of our dice,you can also read the help topic are the dice fair?located in the backgammon rules

The rules and categories for Double Boatzee are the same as regular Boatzee, except that the values in the SECOND column are doubled. (The values in the first column are not doubled, and are the same values as regular Boatzee).The only item not doubled is the Top Section Bonus, which is always 35 point regardless of which column it's in. In order to get this bonus, you'll need to score 63 UNMULTIPLIED points (or, in the second column, you'll need to score 126 multiplied points to get the bonus).The total of all your columns are displayed as the TOTAL SCORE item below the board.

The rules and categories for Triple Boatzee are the same as regular Boatzee, except that the values in the second column are doubled, and the values in the third column are tripled. (The values in the first column are not doubled, and are the same values as regular Boatzee).

The only item not multiplied is the Top Section Bonus, which is always 35 point regardless of which column it's in. In order to get this bonus, you'll need to score 63 UNMULTIPLIED points (in the second column, you'll need to score 126 multiplied points to get the bonus,and in the third column you'll need 189 points).

Meaning: n. - Tropical vine having pink-and-yellow flowers spotted purple and edible roots sometimes boiled as a potato substitute; Tropical vine having umbels of small purple flowers and edible roots sometimes boiled as a potato substitute


1.salsilla

2.sallsilla

3.salcilla

4.salcila

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5 right = 50 grains
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