You meet many colorful humanoids, with whom you converse by choosing bits of dialogue with your control stick.

A good strategy is to purchase carbide bits for most frequent uses - you will probably need straight bits in several sizes, along with a rounding-over or a chamfering bit for edging - and choose lesser-quality bits for more infrequent jobs.

The interface is extremely simple and mode selection is limited; you're basically either going to sing alone, battle or perform a duet with another player, or engage in a "Pass The Mic" party play mode that chooses random bits from random songs.

From the remaining bits where both Alice and Bob measured in the same basis, Alice randomly chooses bits and discloses her choices over the public channel.

Recently, an adult woman about to be bat mitzvahed chose sentimental bits of fabric, including lace from her wedding dress and scraps from her children's baby clothes, and Ms. Langner used them to create a collage that she sewed onto a prayer shawl.

When creating the vampire "rules" that they would use in the show, the writers chose bits and pieces from various existing vampire lore.

Andy Kirshner's score is a collage of music and imaginatively chosen and incorporated bits of speech, ranging from a bored-sounding old priest's nasal prayer for the dead to what sounds like excerpts from a House Committee on Un-American Activities hearing.

We think that we're seeing what is before us, but in fact the imagination is constantly choosing bits of scenes and elaborating them into what we think of as reality.