You might get lucky now and then, but the math just kills your bankroll the longer you sit at the table.

FORBES: When Blackjack Smarts Come to Wall Street

Brief cutscenes can work tremendously well at setting the stage or segueing from one part of a game to another, but the constant barrage of scenes rather than gameplay just kills a game for me.

FORBES: Dramatic 'Of Orcs And Men' Summer Trailer Shows Off Giant Green Orcs, Villainous Humans

Mr. BENOIT: Everybody's been talking about this is south Louisiana, and for it to be sprung up on everybody like it was a big surprise, it just kills me, you know, 'cause I know that this was not a surprise.

NPR: Tab Benoit: 'Voice of the Wetlands'

February 1992: Head on train collision just outside Cairo kills 43 people.

BBC: Egypt's history of train disasters

It would be more about playing a useful role in an online world than just racking up kills and loot to make a character more powerful, he said.

BBC: Million dollar appeal on Kickstarter for Ultima sequel

Longest recorded sniper kills are just under 3, 000 meters with bullets that are just under 10 cm.

FORBES: Connect

Like all writers (it's almost safe to say) he was a big drinker. (See Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Cheever, Mailer, et al.) I once startled Gore by saying I'd just read that each drink kills more than 10, 000 brain cells.

CNN: Cavett: Gore Vidal hates being dead

If people do not know what will make them happy (just as if they do not realise that smoking kills or calories fatten) governments could helpfully tell them what might.

ECONOMIST: Economics focus

To put that into some kind of context, the next biggest cancer killer is bowel, which accounts for just under 16, 000 mortalities per annum and then breast, which kills under 12, 000 a year.

BBC: How under-funded is lung cancer research?