Sonic the Hedgehog is the character of a video game, and the protagonist in video games series with the same name, which were released by Sega. It appeared in a lot of spin-off comics, books and cartoons too. The first game was released in 1991, and it was designed to provide Sega a mascot in front of the Ninento's rival character Mario. Since then, Sonic became the best known game character, his series having sold over 50 million copies. In 2005, he was introduced in the Walk of Game, next to Mario and Link.
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This character was crated by the artist Naoto Ōshima, the designer Hirokazu Yasuhara and programmer Yuji Naka. This character is actually a 15 years old hedgehog, with an anthropomorphic look, who has the ability run very fast, with speeds superiors to the speed of sound. This little blue guy has also the ability to curl into a ball, to attack enemies.

There are a lot of games with Sonic: quizzes, to see how much you know about this character, games in which you have to help Sonic to defeat the True Guardian, in order to get a precious stone, in some games Sonic is lost in Super Mario's world, and he must do all the things Mario did in the game, and even a Flash creation from Sky Chase Zone, which makes Sonic walk on clouds and a final battle with Dr. Robotnik.

You can also get a Sonic the Hedgehog Scene Creator, where you can create your own game scenery, using different backgrounds, characters and scenery pieces from various games. You just simply drag and drop the items you want in your game and it is pretty cool, because you can create as many levels as you wish. For each levels there are two acts, and when you create a level, you should finish the second act to get back to the main menu. The scenery you have created can be printed, or just saved on the computer. If you have a printer, it's very easy, you just have to right click on each scenario, and then choose Print from the available options in the appearing pop-up menu. You can also copy it onto the clipboard and then open it with an image editing software, to modify it as you wish, and then save it.


Sega's mascot became one of the key reasons for company's success, and this happened during the 16-bit era of video games. Sonic is one of the most well known video games characters and in 1996, he has been seen in a Rose Parade also. Sonic is the first character which had a balloon in Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, and he was included with his rivals, Mario and Link, in the Walk of Game class in 2005. In 2004, this character won a Golden Joystick Award, for the title "The Sun Ultimate Gaming Hero". In 2008, he was also voted the most popular video game character, with 24% vote while Mario got only 21%. Sonic was also ranked the #1 as the most iconic video game character in all video games, while Mario and Lara Croft got less votes.

If you like card games, and want to try something special, you can play some fantasy card games. These games can be found online, on the Internet, and I have selected three nice fantasy games which I liked very much, and I think you will also find interesting.
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Elements is a cool fantasy card game, in which the player is an elemental ( a spirit composed of an element, which are the fundamental blocks of nature). Each elemental has his arsenal of skills which can be used in a duel with another elemental. The skills have corresponding cards, and the player has the possibility of choosing which card to pick in a duel, and how many cards to use in the fight, and also to collect them in a card deck.

The players receive 100 health points in the beginning, and the duel is over when one of the elementals has reached 0 HP ( health points ), or ran out of cards. In the game, there are three types of cards, and these are: creature cards( this kind will summon a creature which will fight for the player, and the creatures have certain amount of attack power, health and special skills), spell cards (they have an immediate outcome, and they are discarded after the effect took place) and permanent cards( permanents are artifacts, equipment or anything that remains in play for an indefinite amount of time).

In Spectromancer, the player participates in a duel against another player, a magical duel, in which summoning creatures and casting spells can be used. Each player can use five magical elements during a duel (Fire, Water, Air, Earth and the fifth related to the magic type). In the game, there are six mage types: Clerics, Mechanicians, Necromancers, Chaosmasters, Dominators and Illusionists.(each of them uses something in the duels: holy power, mechanics, death, chaos, control and illusions).The player can play against another player, online, or against the computer.

Astral Masters combines the best features of the game called Astral Tournament and collection card games. This game is between two players and each of them can use various spells and fantastic creatures. It can be played against the computer and against other people This game is easy to play, and it doesn't require any other skills acquired in other games. The players carry each a deck of cards and in the beginning of the duel they get seven cards out of it. While playing, one more card can be taken in the beggining of each turn. The player receives cards as an effect of the spells and also some creatures' abilities. The maximum number of cards a player can have in his hand is 8. The cards can be two types: spells and creatures, and it is quite easy: spells cause an impact on the game situation, and the creatures fight on player's side. Cards have a cost number and the player must spend X Mana points, if the cost is X. When one card is used for a creature or for spells, the card disappears form players hand. The players can also sacrifice cards, and in this case the card disappears and the Mana and Astral Power grow with 1 unit.

Logic puzzles are puzzles deriving from the mathematics field of deduction. This branch was created by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who is known under Lewis Caroll pseudonym, the one who wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. In his book, "The Game of Logic", he introduced games to solve problems like "Hypothesis: some games are fun & every puzzle is a game. The question is if all puzzles are fun, and the answer is "not necessarily".
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This kind of puzzles, where there is given a list of premises and then a question is asked about the things presented in the premises are known as syllogisms. The example mentioned in the previous paragraph is quite simple, because Dodgson constructed much more complex puzzles consisting up to 8 premises.

Later, in the second half of the 20th century, Raymond M. Smullyan has continued developing this branch of logic puzzles and the wrote books like "The Lday of the Tiger" and "To Mock a Mockingbird" and "Alice in Puzzle Land". He made "knights and knaves" puzzles popular; these games involve knights which always tell the truth and knaves, who always lie. There are also logic puzzles which are non-verbal. One popular example is Sudoku, which uses players' deduction skills to correctly fill the squares with numbers.

Another form of these logic puzzles, very popular also is a format in which the scenario is set-up and given, and the object too, and also clues. Then the reader fills out a matrix with all the given clues and attemps to find the solution. This type of puzzle is called "logic grid puzzle" and the most well known example is the Zebra Puzzle, which is called "Who Owned the Zebra?".

A very interesting logic puzzle is the one created by Einstein.Einstein wrote this test and said that 98% of the people can't solve it... Let's hope you are one of the remaining 2%. There's only one solution for this problem.

1. There are 5 houses of 5 different colours.


2. In each house lives a person of a different nationality.


3. Those 5 people drink different drinks, smoke cigarettes of a different brand and have a different pet.


4. None of them has the same pet, smokes the same cigarette or drinks the same drink.

Question: Who has the fish?

Tips:

1. The englishman lives in the red house.


2. The swedish has a dog as a pet.


3. The Dane drinks tea.


4. The green house is at the left side of the white one.


5. The person who lives at the green house drinks coffee.


6. The person who smokes Pall Mall raises birds.


7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.


8. The man that lives in the house that is in the middle drinks milk.


9. The norwegian lives in the first house.


10. The man that smokes Blends lives next to the one that has cats.


11. The man that raises horses lives next to the one that smokes Dunhill.


12. The man that smokes Bluemaster drinks beer.


13. The german smokes Prince.


14. The norwegian lives next to the blue house.


15. The man that smokes Blends is neighbour of the one that drinks water.

Let us know if you solved it and tell us also the method you used! Good luck!