Article: Your game platform may scuff less resilient flooring over the course of a game. Prevent this from happening by adding furniture pads to the bottom of your platform or its feet. In most cases, after adhesive backing is removed, these pads can be pressed into place. Furniture pads can be purchased at your local hardware store or home center. Some pads may need to be attached to the frame or feet with an included fastener. Many Jenga sets have colorful pieces. Add character and some fun to your set by painting some or all of the pieces different colors. An acrylic latex paint, which is available at hardware stores, should work well for your giant game pieces. Choose bright colors to make your set more eye-catching. A neat looking set could attract potential players. Alternatively, you could apply wood stain to the pieces of your set to create a rich, dignified look. When the game is set up, only the ends and sides of many pieces will be visible. Be sure to paint or stain these areas so that even when stacked, your designs can be seen. Set up and play giant Jenga at reunions, church gatherings, community events, and so on. When setting up, clear fragile items from the playing area. When the set falls, pieces may tumble into and damage personal items. Falling pieces may also cause damage to certain kinds of flooring, like wood. In these cases, lay out a large, thick blanket under the platform and playing area.
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Protect your floors with platform padding. Paint the game pieces, if desired. Play giant jenga.

Problem: Article: Rather than cutting them into slices, you might decide to leave them in a larger size to give them more of a presence in the dish you're cooking. In this case, you can slice the whole mushroom down the middle once to half it and call it a day. If you need it to be smaller still, cutting the halves in half will give you nice chunky quarters. Use mushroom halves or quarters in more substantial side dishes like bourbon mushrooms or vegetable medleys. Once your cutting board is covered with mushroom quarters or slices, you can proceed to reduce them to a more manageable size by cutting them widthwise, then rotating them 90 degrees and slicing them again. Chopped mushrooms are the perfect size to throw in a pot of soup or a hearty casserole. You also have the option of stopping after a single cut if you prefer bigger pieces. Keep in mind that mushrooms shrink quite a bit as they cook, so avoid chopping them too small if you don't want them to disappear completely. Turn the mushrooms 1 more time and cut them into even smaller pieces. When fine-dicing or mincing, keep the blade of the knife in contact with the cutting board and raise and lower the rear edge of the blade repeatedly in a lever action. Continue cutting the mushrooms until they're the desired size. You may have to dig out the bulkier pieces and tackle them individually, as the mushrooms' irregular shape will mean that some will be bigger than others. Stuff diced mushrooms into homemade egg rolls or samosas, or sprinkle them over a fresh garden salad.
Summary: Cut the mushrooms into halves or quarters. Turn the mushrooms for a coarse chop. Dice or mince the chopped mushrooms. Finished.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: You may want to use different colors of pen for different topics, like blue for school, green for sports, red for application deadlines. Be careful with application deadlines --- you may want to pretend the deadline is 2 days before it really is so that your application will reach its destination in time. Finish your school project early, or plan to miss baseball practice, or find someone to switch shifts with you at work. Use that time to goof off. Go for a walk. Hang out with friends. Go to bed early. Try to make it a Thursday night.

SUMMARY: Find, or make, a calendar with really big squares for each day. Separate all the pages. Post the pages, preferably all in one row, around your bedroom or other appropriate location. Color with a highlighter any day that you don't have school, even weekends. Write down absolutely every deadline you need to meet, whether it's a homework assignment or the hours of your job, a band performance or a team sport practice, an application deadline or an interview. If any day has more than three things on it, reschedule one of them. Make sure there is at least one day per week where you have nothing to do after dinner. Do NOT stay up past midnight on any day except Friday and Saturday. Do NOT sleep in past 8:30 am on any day. Take a nap after school if you need one, but never longer than 45 to 60 minutes.

You need a minimum of two people to play Chopsticks but there is opportunity later to add more opponents. Each time you start a round of the game you both hold your hands out with one finger extended. Make sure that both you and your partner keep both hands flat and straight out so that both of you can see how many fingers each person has extended throughout the rest of the game. You will then take turns going back and forth. On each turn, one player will use one hand to tap one of their opponent's hand. Let's assume you are going first. If you tap with one finger then your opponent will add your one finger + their extended fingers and extend the sum of the two. For example, you tap your opponent's hand. You have one finger and they have two. They then add the fingers and on their tapped hand, they put out three fingers. On the next turn, your opponent uses their hand of three fingers to tap your hand of one. You now have to hold out four fingers because your one finger plus their three equals four fingers. Only the tapping hand has the power to change your opponent's hand. The goal is to keep going and adding fingers to your opponent's hand by tapping. When someone's hand reaches five fingers that are extended, that hand is considered "dead" and is no longer in play. There are several variations of this rule, but the simple rules of Chopsticks dictate that once a hand has reached five fingers, that hand is useless. Which makes sense because one of background stories behind Chopsticks is that you can hold a chopstick with up to one finger, but an open hand means that you are going to drop your utensil and food as well. Continue playing until one player has lost both of their hands. The goal is to be the last one standing with at least one hand left still alive. Like many math and strategy games such as chess, there are a limited amount of plays that are possible before the game becomes predictable. To prevent the same player winning every round and the other player losing, add the other rules to make the game play fair.
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Start with two players. Face your opponent as you both put your hands in front of you. Pick one person to go first. Tap one of your opponent's hand with one of yours. Take turns between players to tap each others' hands. Hide dead hands behind your back. Master the basics and then add new rules.