Sentences with phrase «like a shell game»

Ethics laws are not optional, and nominees do not have a right to treat disclosure like a shell game,» Wyden said.

Even though some of it sounds like a shell game, students will all make out better in the end, Hutton said.

Like a shell game, if you pick the right drug a patient is likely to respond.

I have not included brand names of oral contraceptives because like a shell game, manufacturers of oral contraceptives are constantly changing the names, doses and contents of their birth control pills, perhaps to avoid being on a list like the one below.

Shelters in neighboring cities and counties often end up taking in the dogs, creating something like a shell game.

No. 60 is hiding treats for them to find, like a shell game.

Thanks Joan I'm in finance myself and it looks like the shell game though raise the rate to compensate for the fees or the lower the rate with higher fees.

Not exact matches

Last summer Electronic Arts shelled out upwards of $ 1.3 billion for PopCap Games, which had its game apps downloaded more than 150 million times worldwide, thanks to mobile hits like Plants vs. Zombies.

«It's like a big shell game.

«The net result of the Liberals» carbon trust shell game is that year after year money gets drained from classrooms and emergency rooms without any resulting efficiency gains while big polluters like Encana get a free ride funded by our healthcare and education systems,» said New Democrat environment critic Rob Fleming.

I personally love stuffed shells but has never been a favorite with my crew — but this recipe sounds like a game changer for them!!!

Small teams have massive tough tacklers and Ozil is like a turtle, went he senses a hard game he is stright back into his shell hiding..

He looked like a shell of a game manager, gun - shy and turnover - prone.

Now maybe he didn't actively participate in the public campaign, like Gazidis, to deceive fans into believing that the move to the Emirates would ultimately allow us to compete financially with the best of the best, but he clearly played a prominent role in the «shell game» being perpetrated by this club.

The second film, set in the Middle Ages, stars knights who fight in «clone - like» shells of metal in competitive games and war.

Younger males, who don't have as much home - decorating game as the older bowerbirds, will sneak in to other bowers and steal decorative items, like blue feathers, shells, bright berries, and colorful bits of plastic.

Not only is that stupid and predictable shooting system back from those PSP games, but this title's developers have managed to suck out the very essence that is NBA basketball and discard it like a peanut shell.

The shell of this game look like it is about space but everything is just about earth and past human history.

birdo is not a bowser minion, the games she appears as antagonist, like mario e luigi super star saga she does nt have anything to do with bowser.but yeah, i like her, hopefully shell be back

By adding choice, through characters and Crew Skills, and trimming the level length, what's left is a focused experience that leaves you feeling like a heroic participant rather then a fatigued shell struggling to find purpose, wishing your time with the game was over rather then looking for more.

I personally didn't like Sticker Star, so I'm not shelling out $ 60 (US) to buy a game that plays almost identically to it.

For everyone trying to compare switch ports to ps4 ports that's also not a good comparison because at least those systems come out with cutting edge new games every year that are in high demand - battlefield, Monster hunter world, while nintendo comes out with old nintendo games and ports from last generation playstation and xbox hardware so how can you diss the better systems and then rejoice when you get a game like dark souls which is from those consoles but is a shell compared to how they look and play on the better consoles??

Bananas can be used as shields to break homing items such as Red Shells; however, they can not be dragged behind the kart like in past games, making this technique harder to execute than before.

Dragon's Crown may look like a typical beat -»em - up on the surface, but once you sink your teeth into its character customization, equipment system, and wealth of side quests, it reveals itself as an action role - playing game trapped in the shell of a side - scrolling brawler.

No, Mario Kart is absolutely nothing like real - world driving — in fact, it may be the least realistic driving game out there, with a lax approach to physics which sees karts, bikes and quads drifting at a moment's notice, chugging along underwater and even flying through the air — all the while dodging inexplicably hazardous turtle shells and banana peels.

In the end, it all looked like a grand shell game being played with other people's money.

Blek is a game of logic and creativity, wrapped in a minimalistic shell — try to think of it less as a puzzle to solve and more like one to understand.

If I do like to read, then I may go for getting more books instead of one game that will be obsolete in four months or require me to shell out more money for updates or a whole new version.

Priced at a frankly unreasonable # 249.99 [$ 370] without a game, meaning early adopters had to shell out a further # 60 [$ 90] for Super Mario 64 (Turok: Dinosaur Hunter weighed in at a fairly twattish # 70 [$ 105]-RRB-, the N64's bungled launch looked like an own goal, giving the PlayStation another easy scalp.

- The game is very sparse with ammo but way generous with crafting materials, so the player can have like 5 shells 8 and 9 mm bullets but also over 200 in gunpowder, which means they can craft themselves to a full inventory at any time they want.

Sakurai goes on to explain the blue shell in great detail, talk about why it's so necessary to have in a game like Mario Kart.

Throughout the game, fans will pass — and potentially purchase — iconic Mario Kart - themed properties such as Rainbow Road and Bower's Castle while facing familiar challenges like dodging banana peels, tossing shells, etc. along the way Fans can choose from Mario, Princess Peach, Luigi, or Toad Mario Kart character tokens To introduce a Mario Kart themed layer of competition, landing on or passing «Go» triggers a race where players compete for the coveted «Grand Prix» card As seen in the Monopoly Gamer Edition game, each Mario Kart game token has special powers and abilities to use during the gameplay (e.g. when the player with the Toad token rolls a «Power - Up Boost,» all players must pay him or her 1 coin) and Players can purchase additional «Power Pack» tokens later this fall to take their game play to the next level and collect additional characters, including Bowser, Rosalina, Shy Guy, Metal Mario, Donkey Kong, and Yoshi.

We have tried - or we are trying - to see what the game's like without the blue shell.

As with most games like this, you'll want to find the difficulty setting that's right for you personally — it should feel like a thunderous achievement when you locate two measly shotgun shells.

I personally didn't like Sticker Star, so I'm not shelling out $ 60 (US) to buy a game that plays almost identically to it.

All of the enemy Koopa Troopas in this game have red shells, a pair of sunglasses, and spiked, black arm bands and collars, like Bowser.

Like in the previous game, if stomped on, the Koopa Troopas are kicked out of their shells.

The game world is so beautifully designed that sidetracking away from wonderfully paced sequences to find arbitrary shells and other junk feels like a disservice.

You know that feeling when you spot a game you really like the look of, but then discover that it's a console exclusive and you're unlikely to ever get the chance to play it - unless you shell out the cost of said console.

However, their shells do appear as items throughout the game, which can be used to hurl at enemies, like in the original Super Mario Bros..

Games like Kerbal Space Program and Prison Architect originally released as mere shells of their present states, while other games have barely changed over the course of their Early Access period.

Also, the few full retail games you have up there like Infamous 2, Ratchet and Clank, LittleBigPlanet2, and Bioshock 2 (now gone) were the games that you offered Ultimate editions for the WEEK before the inception of the free games collection, so many people who would have benefited from having them on the free games collection had just shelled out cash for them because of the prior week's deal.

It's like people only buy PS + hoping to get AAA games cheaply because they can't be bothered shelling out full price for them.

Andy Kelly: At launch No Man's Sky felt like a shell of a game.

Previous subspecies, like the red, yellow, and blue varieties, are joined by rock Pikmin (whose hard outer shells make them ideal for cracking particularly tough surfaces), and pink flying Pikmin, which don't enter until far later in the game, but have the delightful distinction of being able to simply fly past most major obstacles (though definitely not all).

This time, though, Nintendo is doubling up and selling you a pair of wheel - shaped shells in which to put your Joy - Con controllers, ready to play multiplayer on games like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Edition.

Killing off enemies in rooms usually gives players money in the form of bullet shells, while some rooms also contain chests, which when unlocked with a key grant new, random weaponry (there's about 190 guns in the game) and new items (about 200 of them) that can grant a number of active or passive abilities, like grenades, extra health, faster bullets, etc..

The movement is much smoother, the characters walk faster, and the whole game feels like Dragon Quest finally crawled out of its archaic shell, while still keeping what makes the series unique.

The game features absolutely no controller customization which will not be a problem for PS4 or PC users when the game releases later this year but for now players on the Xbox One will be wholly stuck if they can't use both hands simultaneously unless they feel like shelling out an extra $ 150 for the fully remappable Xbox One Elite controller.

For $ 60 they could get 30 classic games built right in to a small shell that looked like an original NES.