Leisure

Leisure is a place for even the busiest people to take a break. You can learn to play cards, check out your horoscope, bet on your favorite game or find out more about arcades.

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How to Make an Outdoor Chessboard

How to Build a Backyard Horseshoe Pit

Rummikub Rules You Can Understand

Monopoly Rules for Classic Gameplay and Shorter Rounds

Sticks, Stones and Knucklebones: The History of Dice

How to Play Jenga Like You've Never Played It Before

Big Money, Big Money: Flashing Lights, Music Can Turn Rats Into Problem Gamblers

What Is the Rarest PokÃ©mon Card? And Is It Worth $5.2 Million?

How to Play UNO: Official Rules Guaranteed to Surprise You

10 of the Most Expensive PokÃ©mon Cards Ever Sold

Is Taurus and Pisces Compatibility the Best in Astrology?

Libra and Capricorn Love Compatibility: A Deep Dive Into Their Connection

What Makes Scorpio and Aquarius Compatibility Unique?

Why Are Today's Lottery Jackpots So Ginormous?

Are people who win the lottery really any happier?

10 Most Spectacular Lottery Burnouts

48 Words That Start With 'X' for Wordle and Scrabble Players

147 Words That Start With 'E' for Wordle and Scrabble Players

Where in the World Are You? Take our GeoGuesser Quiz

8 Tips for Solving That Crazy Hard Jigsaw Puzzle

5 Tips for Solving The New York Times Crossword Puzzle

What Are the World's Biggest and Baddest Jigsaw Puzzles?

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How Chess Works

The game of chess has been challenging the human mind for centuries and the Netflix show "The Queen's Gambit has made it more popular than ever. How do you play this time-honored board game?

By Meredith Bower

How to Play Checkers

Checkers is easy enough for young kids to play but adults can have fun mastering the billions of moves as well. So how do you get started?

By Thorin Klosowski

How Scrabble Works

Scrabble is a crossword game of both skill and chance -- you have to have a good knowledge of words, but you're also stuck with whatever tiles you pick. After all, what can you spell with an X, a Z and an L?

By Jill Jaracz

How Dominoes Works

The game of dominoes is quite simple -- all you have to do is connect tiles with the same number of pips to each other until you have none left. Playing the game is simple, but winning is another story.

By Josh Clark

How Yahtzee Works

In 1954, two Canadians on a yacht created the addicting dice game as way to pass time. And while Yahtzee may be a game of chance, but there's a fair amount of strategy involved, too.

By Julia Layton & Carrie Whitney, Ph.D.

How Uno Works

UNO is one of the world's most popular card games for several reasons. It's easy to learn, fun to play and allows ample opportunities to shout in the face of imminent victory. No, really: It's right there in the rules.

By Marie Willsey

Top 10 Tips for Solving Crossword Puzzles

Sometimes a newspaper reader's worst nightmare isn't a pesky ad or a poorly written opinion piece -- it can be as short as the four-letter answer for 53 down. We have 10 tips that can get you one step closer to finishing your crossword puzzles.

By Meghan E. Smith

10 Fun Family Night Ideas

Between sports practices, computers and televisions, old-fashioned family time doesn't always happen every day. Here are some great ideas to get the family off the couch and spending time with each other.

By Heather Kolich & Kiersten Aschauer

March 15 Birthday Astrology

A Pisces born on March 15 is symbolized by the Fish, has an idealistic nature, and is put off by negativity. Learn more about March 15 birthday astrology.