In Austria, Fingerhakeln – or competitive finger-pulling – is a serious sport, with very strict rules. Finger-athletes aim to drag their opponent across the table by just the finger. Fingerhakeln is also played in Bavaria in Germany.
Forget Playing with Pigskin; This Sport Really Gets Your Goat
If basketball or hockey isn’t your thing, consider taking up the sport of buzkashi. Originating with the Turks and Mongols sometime between the 10th and 15th centuries, its name means “goat dragging.” The name describes it well. Buzkashi games are played between horse-mounted players who compete to see who can drag a decapitated goat carcass…
Chess: A Game of Limitless Possibilities
Because of its complexity, chess offers limitless possibilities. After just three moves, there are over 9,000,000 possible configurations of the board. Mathematician Claude Shannon calculated the total number of possible board configurations in a game. The result is called the Shannon Number in his honor. He assumed an average of about 1,000 possibilities for a pair of…
Explore the Action-Packed and Wrinkle-Free World of Extreme Ironing
What do you do if you are an adrenaline junkie and you find such things are ironing your clothes far too mundane for your frenetic lifestyle? Why not combine them and take a shot at earning immortality as a champion in the sport of Extreme Ironing? Extreme ironing involves ironing clothes in locations that are…
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