One old theory suggests that they are completely unrelated names. Since Jack sounds a lot like Jacques, the French version of ...

In 1904, the American author George Schorb published a lengthy collection of Riddles and Drawing-Room Magic, containing several hundred word games, parlor games, card tricks, and lateral thinking ...

What exactly is a flop? To us, it’s something that arrived with great fanfare and big expectations, then ate pavement—hard.