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Your Complete Guide to Pinochle: Setup, Gameplay, & Scoring
Pinochle is a card game where you make different combinations, or “melds,” of cards as well as win cards during the round to earn points. Even though Pinochle has been around since the early 1900s, it’s still tons of fun to play and has a lot of strategy....
How to Do a Plie in Ballet
A plié is a simple ballet step that is learned while covering the basics. Although it’s often taught to beginners, it’s one of the most important movements that you’ll learn because it’s used in so many different dance steps. By nailing the right form and...
How to Do a 21 Card Card Trick
The 21 card trick doesn’t require any kind of sleight of hand, so it’s the perfect trick for beginners to learn. The trick relies on math to work, and it practically performs itself. As the magician, you’ll have your audience volunteer pick any card from...
How to Pick Up a Girl in a Club
Despite how they're portrayed in TV, movies, and music, clubs are not magical paradises where everyone effortlessly finds a date. It still takes a little effort to meet someone, even in this environment! However, you don't need cheesy pick-up lines or any...
How to Get Glue off a Car
Glue, duct tape, and stickers can all leave a sticky residue on your car that can be a real eyesore. No matter where it is, glue can be an unsightly annoyance. Fortunately, removing glue is pretty easy to do using a few common household items. Try a haird...
How to Conjugate Spanish Verbs (Present Tense)
Conjugating verbs in Spanish can be tricky. To conjugate a regular verb in the present tense, all you have to do is know your subject, remove the ending from the verb, and add the ending for the corresponding subject. When you start conjugating reflexive...
How to Be a Simple Person
Tired of leading a complicated life? Well, a simple person is happy and is more of a comfortable personality that deals with being the ideal person. A simple person relies on five life senses: book, common, street, fashion, and business.
How to Rotate a Mattress
In the past, mattresses needed to be rotated and flipped regularly to prevent sagging in the areas you sleep on the most. Recent innovations in mattress design have mostly removed the need for flipping newer mattresses, but rotating can still help prolong...
15 Effective Strategies to Slow Down Your Metabolism
If you're struggling to gain weight, you might think your fast metabolism is to blame. Your metabolism is the rate at which your body converts calories into energy. How fast or slow your metabolism is mostly comes down to genetics, but you can slow it dow...
How to Do Crunches
Are you working on your 6-pack and want an effective core exercise to add to your routine? Then crunches are the perfect addition to strengthen and tone your abs. There are even a ton of variations of the exercise you can try to switch up your workout and...
How to Multiply in Excel
This wikiHow teaches you how to multiply numbers in Excel. You can multiply two or more numbers within one Excel cell, or you can multiply two or more Excel cells against one another.
How to Stop Touching Your Face
Touching your face can cause clogged pores and spread acne-causing bacteria. One of the worst habits you can have when dealing with acne is continually touching your face—or worse, picking at it! Break the habit of touching or picking your face by using m...
How to Use an Ohmmeter
An ohmmeter is an electronic device that measures resistance in an electronic component or circuit. It works by using 2 probes to send a current through the circuit and measuring how much resistance, in ohms, that current encounters. The first step in usi...
How to Make a Pinch Pot
Many people enjoy making pinch pots because of their relatively easy construction and forgiving form. To begin, choose a clay to use. There are different clay types that have different firing requirements and can be used in different ways. Next, form the...
How to Catch a Chipmunk
If you want to trap chipmunks to remove them from your yard, you only need some simple supplies. You can use a store-bought trap to catch chipmunks, or you can make your own chipmunk trap at home. With a little patience and planning, you can be catching c...
How to Respond After a Kiss
Even if you feel like you're the smoothest cat on the planet, most people lose a little of their cool after a good kiss. You'll end up panicking on the inside, wondering what to do next. But there is no right answer about what to do after a kiss-- and tha...