The Game

Samuel W. Westing was found dead in his home, but he wasn’t done yet. He made a game, and with that game people lost and won. Gull Lake middle school sixth grade students have recently read, watched, and analysed The Westing Game book and movie. The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin contains many similarities and differences that are worth explaining. The Westing Game includes a very interesting plot. A group of heirs to Westing are paired together, given some clues, and told they would win big…

first basketball game. When I woke up I already was so pumped to play. When my mom woke me up I felt like nobody can stop me from playing this game and that meant that we were going to dominate this game. I also felt that nobody was going to ruin my day that day because I was going to play a basketball game today. When I went to school I had athletics for first period and it was a lot more fun than the other days because we played a game we call Buffball. It is basically a game but if your team…

The magic of horror games is to make players watch every step, inducing a feeling of fear when they turn around a corner. Horror game designers use a variety of tools to encourage the sensation of fear. However, players should associate themselves with a character and attach meaning to their actions in order to experience a thrill while playing a game. A concept, known as presence or telepresence - 'a sense of being present in a remote environment ' (Held and Durlach, 1992) - helps to achieve…

The Game of Hockey Hockey is a physical game and many guidelines are needed to keep the game safe. The game has rules, special equipment, and penalties to keep it safe. In hockey there are a lot of rules that players are required to follow. Some rules of the game are that the player must hit the puck with the stick to score, the puck can be kicked, but not into the net to score. On the ice there are three forwards, one goalie, and two defensemen. The only time a team has less than six…

Life and a baseball game are immensely similar while the equipment for success is different, they teach lessons of independence, having confidence in life as well as in baseball, dealing with pressure and with failure. Life can be hard, just like the game of baseball. The game gets harder and more competitive as you get older. The pitching mound moves farther away from home plate, the bases move further away from each other, pitchers throw faster and you have to learn to become more…

“Come on Mike Mitochondria you're slacking!” In Membrane Stadium, the Cells were losing to the Pathogens 4-1 with only fifteen minutes remaining in the game. Coach Nucleus, the brains of this whole team, had to think of something quick or they will lose. Unfortunately, their star player was hurt because of an illegal slide tackle. The game stopped and the Assistant Coach, Mr. Vacuole gave some water to the players. After the penalty kick, they were still down 4-2 with thirteen minutes left. The…

Jake Kerschner to send Central Dauphin boys volleyball to the state semifinals, I could feel the excitement spread through the gym like wildfire. Never had I expected I would feel that much exhilaration over a volleyball game. Little did I know attending that state playoff game would dramatically change the course of my four years of high school. Less than one year later, I decided that I wanted to experience that rush of adrenaline that volleyball seemed to promise. When I told my family I…

Sneak a peak game: This game should have a large group of people that will be divided up into teams of four. One member of the group will go see the instructors sculpture, and they have 10 seconds to examine the sculpture. When they go back to their group they have 25 seconds to instruct their group on how to build an exact replica of the sculpture. Then each group has one minute to recreate the sculpture. This activity teaches teamwork and how to communicate effectively. Two truths and a lie:…

Imagine you are at your child’s soccer game and they are sitting in the field playing with grass, yet, they receive a trophy. What is that really teaching them? Where there are youth sports, there are participation trophies. Over the years, there has been quite a debate about these materialistic goods. Kids should not receive participation trophies because it gives them the wrong message about making mistakes, it will teach them about success, and make them appreciate the sport itself.…

“Just a Game” “You ready for this” my dad said as we were sitting on the couch talking about the tournament that we are going to. I said “yes I am ready for this”. My dad said “You do know that your team gets ranked for the tournament and your team is the number one team in the tournament”. When he told me that I could not believe it. That means that we're are going to have a lot of people there watching you guys play. There will be people there recording the game and making mix tapes of you if…