Surhone, Lambert M.; Miriam T. Templedon; Marseken, Susan F. "Octagon House (Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin)." VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller AG & Co. Kg. Homes with hidden passageways have a way of taking on new roles as times change, which was the case for the Octagon House in Fond du Lac, Wis. He put in hidden passageways and secret rooms all around the house, as well as a ballroom that spanned the entire length of the structure. The house was constructed by Captain Jonathan Hunt in 1710. To provide protection from the local Native Americans, Captain Hunt installed a secret passageway in the home as a family hiding spot. For example, Gillette installed mirrors above the windows in the living room and in his bedroom so he could monitor his guests as they filed into his house and time his grand entrance down the carpeted staircase perfectly. Spend enough time designing hidden passageways and secret rooms for your video games, and the same sort of architecture might just normally extend to your house. What's more, people can join or leave the game whenever they feel like it -- in other words, whenever they decide it's time to grab another grilled hamburger or beer.

The president and can travel via Air Force One, Marine One and presidential motorcade. But you don't have to travel all the way to Sweden to develop a taste for this blocky diversion. That's one way to use the spoils of war. One is to adjust the gimbals, what is billiards either by maneuvering the surface so that the gimbals swing another way or by physically resetting the gimbals themselves. An object mounted on three or more gimbals can turn in nearly any direction. In training missions, NASA uses gimbals to simulate situations astronauts will encounter while in space. While it's possible that the hidden passageway was used to transport slaves on the Underground Railroad, some of the home's other visitors haven't been so lucky. When there are multiple field kubb in question, it's generally best to separate them with as much horizontal space as possible. Because kubbs are four-sided, this means each kubb has two possible positions, or footprints. Once the kubbs are toppled, you can attack the king.

However, it's much more likely that some of the Lannister kubbs will still be standing after the Starks run out of batons. We do know, however, that kubb's first and most stalwart backers probably originated in Gotland, which is an island just off of the east coast of Sweden. With the flat face towards your opponent, the kubb is easier to overturn, but if you turn the kubb's corner toward your enemy, you make it just a little harder to knock down. With your kubb set in hand, you must mark the playing field (or pitch) using corner pins. The only restriction is that the penalty kubb must be at least one baton length from the king or the corner markers. In formal play, there must be at least two players for each team. The second team, who we'll call Team Lannister, may choose the side of the pitch it would like to play from. If you make your game pieces from foam, you can even play inside. Apparently Tiedemann thought that what his wife really needed were features like turrets and gargoyles, which made the home look even more like a castle.

Read on to learn more about the world of high-end auction houses. Turn the page to find out about the ultimate in haunted houses. If this story is true, it seems more likely that the girls broke their necks; surely the hidden passageway wasn't so hard to find that the other students wouldn't have come to their classmates' rescue when it was discovered the girls were missing. Find out who might have used his secret passageways to carry out murder on the next page. Like many of us, Bourne wanted to know what his guests really thought of him, so his secret passageways allowed him to subtly escape a gathering to spy on the party. And what's a proper summer home and hunting lodge without an icehouse that facilitates turn-of-the-century entertaining, a library to hang the heads of your game trophies, and of course, secret passageways and a dungeon? So of course I proceeded directly to a store to buy a game set. It was likely a better buy than the next eccentric home on our list, which has passed hands many times over the years due to a little problem with ghosts. A word of note about some of these games sets: Some stores sell versions of the game that don't even remotely resemble the original, so be sure to double-check a product before you buy.