With use of some pre-defined tips and tricks anyone can master their art of gaming, which when used with some precise strategy, will make for some serious wins.  So here are some 12 or so tips & tactics for you to use during the game of:  ‘Axis & Allies – Gudalcanal,’ which is a role playing strategy game. Some of the tips may differ during actual play, so players do need to try and test for the efficiency of each as every game can be differently played and solely depends on the gamer. Starting with;

1: The player who makes a second move has a greater advantage over the first players move.  This is because, the first player can find it difficult to predict the second player’s moves even though, considering; they are played back and forth during in the game. The best move for the first player to secure his base in a better way is to cover up with a strong formation of both the air force and naval unit together.

2:  Air crafts can act as more powerful units in the inventory. For the player making his first move, he can make use of aircrafts to land armies, toggle attacks; instead of letting the foot soldiers get wasted in a secured opponent’s territory. This way, not only are the fleet of soldiers saved and secured for further attacks it is also more reliable.

3:  In the initial stages of the game, conservation is the key factor. The player has to try and conserve his forces; the aircrafts for instance should not be ventured in lonesome state blindly. Such can prove bad for the artillery and the player will be left with lesser aircrafts till at the end, to fight any further.

4: The thing with submarines, is that they move and then attack a target. So for a player playing the first move should plan accordingly and deploy their sub’s so they can cause major damage. Striking out on the opponent with the use os sub in the later stage can hammer the player, as the opponent may use his own before the first player does. This can be devastating an attack for a fruitless strategy.

5:  Use of subs should be such that they are always in multiple of number. There should be more than one when they are deployed but only one sub should be used, at a time, for attacking a particular target. The chance of sinking a target with multiple subs attacking is far greater too.

6: Instead of moving aircraft carrier more frequently, try moving the aircraft. This will save the player from some damage and in worst cases will retain a number of a useful aircrafts. These can be used to attack back.

7:  Always carry and load transports and destroyers, these can even be carried with the units themselves. The transports and destroyers are rarely used but one can never deny when they can come in handy.  Especially in the sea covered zones where one or many island are interconnected and are accessible by transports.

8: Don’t forget to unload the transports and destroyers where there is considered safety  or if the area is secured by friendly forces. This will keep the transports safe and can be helpful in re-working the configuration of the game.

9: The players ‘capital ships’ are completely destroyed on a hit of 1 that is if the dice indicates a ‘1’ when rolled. If a ‘2’ turns up on the dice the ship is not totally destroyed but is damaged enough to be moved to the damage box. So keep a lookout for this to not get into trickery.

10: Artillery should be positioned in such a way that they cover against attack from the opponents by being out of the comfort zone and located away from the naval units.

11:  Try planning to build an air field away from the home base. This can be done when the game resumes and it is safe as the base will grow stronger by the time the opponents try to reach for it.

12: Each of the unit in the inventory should be protected under a cover provided by the safety of naval unit. Always make use of ‘battle box’ from the naval unit for gaining an advantage.

Popularity: 6% [?]

Tic-tac-toe also has another spelling that’s tick tack toe. Sometimes its also known noughts and crosses, X’s and O’s, and many other names. The game is based on pencil-and-paper to be played by two players, O and X, who take turns to mark the 3×3 grid in the empty spaces. The player should able to place three respective marks to win the game; this has to be in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal row.

Players soon found that best play from both parties leads to a draw. Hence, tic-tac-toe is most often proffered by young children; when they don’t find a good enough strategy they move on to more refined games such as chess or chinese checkers. This status for simplicity has led to casinos offering gamblers the chance to play tic-tac-toe against trained chickens.

The plainness of tic-tac-toe makes it perfect as an educational tool for coaching the concepts of combinatorial game theory and the stem of artificial cleverness that deals with the searching of game trees. It is simple to write a computer program to play tic-tac-toe perfectly, to enumerate the 765 essentially unlike places (the state space complexity), or the 26,830 probable games up to rotations and reflections (the game tree complexity) on this space.

One case of a Tic-Tac-Toe playing computer is the Tinkertoy computer, developed by MIT students, and made out of Tinker Toys. It only plays Tic-Tac-Toe and has always won the game. It is at present on display at the Museum of Science, Boston.

Popularity: 30% [?]

It is important to make the right selection from the Indian betting sites depending on what you are searching for, and what they truly have available to offer you for being registered. Are you looking for a sign up bonus, a free bet, the best odds or the betting site that offers the widest range of sports? Betting Sites are hard to decide from their outlook. There are Best Indian Bookies is specially designed for players so that they can bet on games like cricket, football, horse racing, play in the casino or even the lottery and many more.

Popularity: 18% [?]

Are you interested in playing a free online Spades game? What is it? It is a simple partnership trick-taking card game which was invented in the US in the 1930s. The object of the game is for each pair or partnership to take at least the number of tricks they have bid on before the commencement of the play.

Spades is a part of the Whist family of card games, which also includes Bridge, Hearts, and Oh, Hell. How is it different? Here, instead of the trump being decided by the highest bidder or at random, the spade suit is always trump, hence the name.

Let’s check out the ground rules:

Number of Players: There can be two or more players. However, mostly four players play in pairs (”Partnership spades”)[3][5]

The Deck: It’s the standard 52 card deck, but can also be played with one or two jokers and/or predetermined cards removed. If there are more than six players, a second deck is often used.

Rank of Suit: Interestingly, Spades is always trump. Other suits have no essential value during the game. However, a card of the suit will beat a card of any other suit except a Spade. If there is a draw, the most common suit order from low to high would be Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts, Spades.

Take a look at the rank of cards (descending): Ace, King, Queen, Jack, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2.[6]

So, if you are playing this game, your aim must be to score the most points. Points are accumulated by winning at least the number of tricks (also known as “books”) bid in each hand. You stand to lose if you fail to take at least that many (or in some cases by taking too many).

Happy playing and may the best partner or partnership win!

Popularity: 17% [?]

According to a global study conducted by Ernst & Young on the gaming sector the online gaming segment has an average growth of 13% per year. This market analysis clearly shows the rise of various skill games like Sudoku, board games and strategy games as well as that of online gambling. Chess, billiard and the traditional card games are hot favorites.

The first half of 2009 has seen 59% on web users indulge in some kind of online skill  contributing around 2.2 billion into the total online gaming market of around a staggering $ 5 billion; 150% higher than the previous year.
This growth is due to various reasons:
Most people have a tendency to indulge in some kind of game or the other. Given to the economic recession, more and more of this population took up internet gaming as a money-saving alternative to outdoor games. Also, with so many rendered jobless across the globe, people had more spare time and spent them on internet games.
The growing trend among the social networking sites to attract more traffic and keep them hooked by adding interactive widgets and applications and advert-games has also helped the online gaming industry grow manifold. These advert-games not only help the sites retain its members by getting them addicted to the games but also yield profit as they promote some service or product  as well.

Although, it is up to the financial consultants to give a verdict on whether to invest in the online gaming market, there is no denying the fact that be it online or offline, games are here to stay as long as we humans have our playful nature!

Popularity: 21% [?]

Tetris has been modified many times throughout it releases since the 80s. There is no so called standard for the tetris game, as newer releases keep getting added either to make the game better or to keep tetris players interested. Newer Tetris games have become faster rather than maintaining its endurance.

Newer Tetris Versions
Latest versions of Tetris have different scoring formats which cannot be seen in traditional Tetris. Newer versions of Tetris use advanced graphics systems which makes it further more interactive for the players and keeps them glued to the screen. Multiplayer versions are favourites amongst younger players, while the matured players still prefer the older versions.

Tetris Game Facts

• Did you know that a Tetris type game is available on Topfield Digital Set-Top Boxes, coupled with a clone of Pac-Man and Brick.
• Did you know that Tetris is also available as a keychain game? So handy…!!!
• Did you know that pop singer Utada Hikaru is an avid tetris player. She participated in a Tetris DS tournament sponsored by Nintendo and beat 92% of her opponents. She has at times played Tetris at a stretch for half a day.

Learn more about Tetris Games at Wikipedia: Tetris

Popularity: 33% [?]

It was predicted that Mafia Wars would immediately gain popularity with the increasing number of players join the application. Facebook users have been introduced with many applications and MOB on Myspace has become the very famous tool attracting more and more users.

Facebook Mafia Wars is not only an interesting game, but is also addictive in nature. Facebook Mafia Wars, like MySpace MOB requests you to be ‘friends’ with your Mafia members. Whether or not they respond is a different matter altogether but so the best method is to invite your current friends to be on your Top Mafia team. The age group and reasons for networking on Facebook are somewhat unlike than MySpace. The key aim is to expand your Mafia team and keep taking the game ahead.

You might realize that some of your friends are not too eager to play an online game with you. There are other methods to increase your Top Mafia. By doing a research on Facebook for Mafia War you will land on a page devoted to the game. On that page you will find discussion boards with many posts where people are requesting to be on a Facebook Mafia Team.

Since the concept is to be friends with your Top Mafia Members, you will need to select and request to be friends with as many people as you want on your team (currently, Facebook Top Mafia teams can have up to 500 members). Many have experienced that this method has proved to be successful and they have recruits from around the world. One of the best advice is, while scrolling through the postings requesting friends, it is best to start at the last page as those are the newer postings and they are less likely to have already been in the friends list.

Once your Top Mafia team begins to develop, don’t forget to log in often to at least do a few steps and gain some points for level moving. You will be amazed as your money will grow with the addition of Mafia team members. If any of your members should be taken out in a ‘hit’, you can go back to the discussion boards and hunt for more friends.

Popularity: 20% [?]

INTRODUCTION –

Virtual world has blocked our mental images, restricting to explore our true selves by gluing onto an electronic device, through which a person feels he can fulfill his desires. It has indeed become a medium through which a person satiates his desires vicariously.

Using the fictitious tools, you have ambushed some terrorists with high-tech ammunitions, revved some engines to get a podium finish, and absconded from some cops for grand thefts. And now you have something really inseparable, something ancient but yet existent, for most part of the world a primary source of survival-farming.

Recently farming has become a preferred arena for gaming online, with the arrival of ‘Farmville’ game started by Zynga, especially on Facebook. Here is an opportunity for people who haven’t ploughed, sowed seeds, or harvested a crop ever in their existence on this earth to experience the real mechanism of farming.

RULES -
Farmville is a world which centers around the farmers ability to grow, nurture and harvest a crop. It does not require logical reasoning or strategizing, but if the farmer has to survive and prosper in the online farm world, he has to earn the maximum amount in a minimum span of time.

At the first stage of the game, the farmer is allotted a small plot of land, some money and an even smaller six square section that has been plowed and planted. The purpose is to expand his/her farm by growing crops and selling them to buy more crops. The faster the player can expand his farm, the more money he can earn and thus be able to afford a lot of other things. Now the money could be earned or the farm could be expanded in two ways – Farmville coins or Farmville cash. Coins are the most common form of money and they can be obtained by harvesting crops, whereas, green cash is quite seldom and is rewarded only over gradual accomplishments and after each level that is passed. The player should also have minimum number of neighbours to expand his farm.

The land that is purchased cannot be a direct purchase of what the farmer demands. Each incremental piece of land should be obtained, before the farmer shifts to buy the next size. For instance, a person ought to purchase a 14×14 space before moving onto 16×16 space.

STRATEGIES –TIPS -
There are some general tips or strategies that could be applied to be a wealthy farmer. The strategy is similar to any kind of business oriented organization. A profit-minded farmer will adopt one strategy i.e. grow, harvest and expand and grow, harvest and expand. Subsequently, this yields soaring profit and leads to higher levels quickly in the early stages of the game. One another simple way of advancing in the game is by adding more and more friends to the neighbourhood.

Every beginner might get carried away with purchasing objects for decorative purposes, but a savvy farmer will wait to buy these things until he/she has the capacity to plow and seed an entire field. Another strategy seems similar to that of investing in a share which has greater ROI (Return on Investment). The farmer should select the crop which results in considerable profits. One should consider the cost of the seeds versus the money he will earn from harvesting the crops.

Farmers should also check the growth time of the crop and it should be harvested soon before it is withered. This involves real time and not game time which means that if a crop is a two hour crop, it will take two hours to grow and will wither if not harvested by the farmer. So the farmer has to plant a crop keeping in mind his real-life schedule, which sounds quite fascinating.

The real life experience of farming has made the game so popular among the urbanites. People are transported into the zone of real farming by harvesting vegetables, milking cows and shearing sheep. It might also serve as a medium that deletes all misconceptions about our farmers or our ignorance, to their commitment of feeding the nation adequately. So this virtual experience of online farming has struck a chord with the masses, although the real one has declined.

Popularity: 24% [?]

Billiards Game :

Nowadays, its seen that kids and adults are extremly addicted to online games. I, myself love to pass each free moment I have playing 8 Ball Billiards Game.

I must have read all possible strategies, tips and tricks that are available online to master this game. The variations of this game are many.. to name a few – 9- ball, cutthroat, Euro 8 ball, 3 balls, trick shots etc.

Following are the FOULS I came accross while exploring online.

*The shooter fails to strike one of his/her own object balls (or the 8 ball, if all of said object balls are already pocketed) with the cue ball, before other balls (if any) are contacted by the cue ball. This includes “split” shots, where the cue ball strikes one of the shooter’s and one of the opponent’s object ball simultaneously.
* No ball comes into contact with a cushion or is pocketed, after legal cue ball contact with the (first) object ball (or 8 ball, if shooting for the 8).
* The cue ball is pocketed (”scratched”)
* The shooter does not have at least one foot on the floor (this requirement may be waived if the shooter is disabled in a relevant way, or the venue has not provided a mechanical bridge)
* The cue ball is shot before all balls have come to a complete stop from the previous shot
* The cue ball is struck more than once during a shot
* The cue ball is jumped entirely or partially over an obstructing ball with an illegal jump shot that scoops under the cue ball
* The cue ball is clearly pushed (shoved slowly, rather than struck), with the cue tip remaining in contact with it more than momentarily
* The shooter touches the cue ball with something other than the tip of the cue
* The shooter touches any ball (with body, clothing or equipment), other than as necessary to move the cue ball when the player has ball-in-hand
* The shooter knocks a ball off the table
* The shooter has shot out-of-turn
* On the break shot, no balls are pocketed and fewer than four balls reach the cushions (in which case the incoming player can demand a re-rack and take the break or force the original breaker to re-break, or may take ball-in-hand behind the head string and shoot the balls as they lie)

Popularity: 21% [?]

Online Car Racing

Online Car Racing Games:

For many who dream to participate in a car race or want to become a car racer but cannot do it in real can fulfill their dreams by playing online. Car racing games played online are very realistic giving the experience of winning a real car race. Car racing games can be customized with different body parts.

Playing video games offers good entertainment and are a good form of relaxation. Nowadays, with the improvement in technology these games can be played with best visuals and sound details. New games with new challenges are continuously developed by the game creators.

FuelTank and Need for Speed are the common car racing games that are played by all age groups. Time runs out quickly in a Fuel Game. You have to be very fast. You need to keep the radiator spring working using the collected gas. Need for speed is a dangerous form of racing and hence most thrilling and exciting. It requires lot of practice to take down the enemy.

Car racing or car driving games are not easy to play. These games require lot of concentration and practice but the excitement one experiences is as realistic as participating in a real car race.

So if you always wanted to participate in a car race but didnt have the time, money, energy or will.. you can always get going by playing online to experience the thrill…

Popularity: 20% [?]