Chat about your hobbies or ask what she has gotten up to over the weekend. She may immediately volunteer some information about whether she is single or not. She will most likely tell you if she has plans with her significant other. This is more casual than a formal date but still may be viewed as one. If she hesitates, it may be because she is not single. Better yet, she may say yes because she is single and views it as a date. Make sure you know whether she thinks that it is a date or just something between friends. You can casually ask her, “is this cool with your boyfriend?” She may laugh if she’s single or appreciate how respectful and considerate you are but either way, it can put you in her good graces. While she may recoil, breaking the touch barrier establishes a connection and certain dynamic. She may naturally be flirty or very self-conscious, in any scenario apologize if she recoils. She may tell you exactly why she is not comfortable, which may include that she is not single. Touching lets her know that you want to get close to her.  Touch her casually after a joke or after complimenting her hair or outfit.  You may touch her lower back if escorting her through a door or elevator. You may also read over her shoulder if she is classmate or coworker. While this may seem innocent, subconsciously she will know that you’re trying to get closer to her. If you are in a social setting and she has her arms crossed and does not maintain eye contact, she may not be interested in having a conversation with you. In contrast, if she is touching your arm or leg during the conversation, it is a good sign that she is engaged in the conversation. ” If she seems overly talkative, you may be able to surmise that she is open, friendly, and that she has a busy schedule because she is single. For example, if she never mentions a boyfriend but tells you that she goes to yoga every day, takes French lessons, and she is still looking for more activities, there is a good chance that she is single. If you are obviously probing, she may be turned off and not be forthcoming. Say something similar to, “I was just wondering,” and ask if you could take her out or even just get her number if you just met. If you are going to be direct and straightforward, make sure that you have established a rapport. She might find it offputting if you ask her without getting to know her at all.
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One-sentence summary -- Keep conversations casual. Ask her for coffee or lunch. Break the touch barrier. Read her body language. Ask yourself “how much is she telling me? Be casual and polite.


Try modifying game play to allow players to play the same number card on one of the middle piles, in addition to playing ascending or descending cards.  For example, you could play a 5 on another 5 card, or a 4 or 6 as in normal game play. Play this variation if you want to make the game easier or go by faster. Modify the game by agreeing with your opponent to be able to lay down more than one card at a time in ascending or descending order.  For example, if you have a 3, 4, and 5 in your hand, you can wait until you see a 2 or a 6 on a middle pile and then lay down all three cards at once onto the pile. Play with this variation if you want to make the game go by faster or just want an extra way to “attack” or best your opponent by getting rid of cards more quickly. Try including the two Joker cards into your deck before dealing. If you get a Joker in your playing hand, use it on top of any card in the middle pile to act as a “wild.” Play any other card in your hand on top of the wild Joker, and play resumes normally on that card.  Try to hold onto a Joker in your hand as long as possible, only using it when you can’t play any of the other cards in your hand. A Joker must be played, however, when you can’t play any other cards and before you and your opponent can flip over reserve cards onto the middle piles. When you use Jokers in the deck, player draw piles should have 16 instead of 15 cards each. The Joker cannot be the last card you play to win the game. Expand the game to include more than two players by creating an extra middle pile for each player. In this case, deal out cards to the middle piles first, then distribute playing cards evenly to each player. Everyone should still have 5 cards in their playing hand.  For three players, have three active middle piles for the players to lay cards on. For four players, have four active piles. Try using two decks instead of one when you're playing with more than two players for a longer game with more possibilities for game play.
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One-sentence summary -- Play using doubles. Put down more than one card at a time. Use jokers as a wild card. Play with three or four players.


Gboard is a custom keyboard that enables integrated Google Search and Android-style glide typing. Search for Gboard in the App Store and press “Get” to install. Upon launching, follow the explicit instructions displayed to get set up. Launch the Gboard app and tap "Keyboard Settings". A list of keyboard settings will appear. Glide typing is a feature that allows you to type words by sliding your finger from key to key without lifting it away from the keyboard. This feature is unique to google keyboard and will not appear in the iOS settings. The toggle will turn blue when it is on, gray color indicates that it is off. This feature recommends emojis in along with word suggestions as you type (e.g. typing the word ‘happy’ will suggest a smiley face in place of the word). This feature automatically changes misspelled words as you type. Keep an eye on names and places when this feature is turned on - they may not be recognized by the auto-correct dictionary and changed to something you don’t want. This will automatically capitalize words at the beginning of sentences as well as recognized proper nouns like names. This feature will omit words deemed profane by the word filter. Having this on will not block manually typed words (though they may be targeted by auto-correct), but they will not appear when glide typing or as suggestions for word replacements. This feature displays a small popup of the key you just pressed while typing. This allows the keyboard to be locked into uppercase letters by tapping and holding the “Up Arrow” (or Shift) key on the keyboard. Caps lock is indicated by a solid line displayed underneath the arrow. If you find yourself accidentally entering caps lock when you don’t mean to then you can disable it entirely here. This option let’s you decide whether you want the keyboard display to switch to lowercase letters when uppercase is not set. Turning this off will not disabled lowercase letters, just make the display always show uppercase like a physical keyboard. " shortcut. This option allows you to add a period without tapping the period key by instead double-tapping the space key. This can be useful for fast typists.
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Download and install Gboard. Access Gboard’s keyboard settings. Toggle Glide Typing. Toggle Emoji Suggestions. Toggle Auto-correction. Toggle Auto-capitalization. Toggle Block offensive words. Toggle Character preview. Toggle Enable caps lock. Toggle Show lower case letters. Toggle ".