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Five hindrances
The five hindrances (Pali: Pañca nīvaraṇāni) are mental factors in Buddhist doctrine that obstruct meditation and wisdom: sensual desire, ill will, sloth and torpor, restlessness, and doubt.
Five Holy Wounds
The Five Holy Wounds, also called the Five Sacred Wounds, are the wounds of the crucified Christ honored in Catholic devotion through chaplets and prayers.
Five hundred
Five Hundred (500), card game, invented in the USA and copyrighted by the US Playing Card Company in 1904; Australia and New Zealand's national trick-taking game with bidding, a 43-card deck, joker and bowers, misere contracts, and a race to 500 points.
Five Islands, Nova Scotia
Five Islands, Nova Scotia: community and provincial park on the Minas Basin, Bay of Fundy, 24 km east of Parrsboro, with 90 m sea cliffs, the world's highest tides, Triassic-Jurassic geology, and about 92 campsites.
Five Ks
The Five Ks (ਪੰਜ ਕਕਾਰ) are the five articles of identity that initiated Khalsa Sikhs must wear, traditionally given by Guru Gobind Singh in 1699.
Five Little Pigs
Five Little Pigs (Murder in Retrospect) is Agatha Christie's 1942 Hercule Poirot novel in which Poirot reopens the sixteen-year-old poisoning case of painter Amyas Crale via five suspects' contradictory accounts.
Five Marquises of the Wang clan
The Five Marquises of the Wang clan (五侯) were the five maternal uncles of Emperor Cheng of Han, jointly enfeoffed as full marquises in 27 BC.
Five Men of Edo
Five Men of Edo (大江戸五人男, Ōedo gonin otoko) is Daisuke Itō's 1951 Shochiku 30th-anniversary jidaigeki starring Tsumasaburō Bandō as Banzui-in Chōbei against Utaemon Ichikawa's Mizuno Jūrōzaemon, adapted from Kabuki plays and Japan's second-highest earner of 1951.
Five Military Commands
The Five Military Commands (Ngũ quân đô đốc phủ) were five army commissions created in Vietnam in 1466 under King Le Thanh Tong to keep military power under royal control.
Five Ministers' Conference
The Five Ministers' Conference (五相会議, Go-sō kaigi) was a Japanese inner cabinet in which the prime minister and the foreign, finance, war, and navy ministers set national policy.
Five Modern Nō Plays
Five Modern Nō Plays (Kindai Nōgakushū, 近代能楽集) is a 1956 collection by Yukio Mishima that reworks classical nō libretti as modern dramas, translated by Donald Keene in 1957.
Five Nights at Freddy's
Five Nights at Freddy's (FNAF) is a 2014 indie point-and-click survival horror game by Scott Cawthon: a night guard at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza survives animatronics using cameras, doors, and limited power; it spawned a franchise and 2023 Blumhouse film.
Five Nights at Freddy's (film)
Five Nights at Freddy's, also called the FNAF Movie, is a 2023 American horror film directed by Emma Tammi, released by Universal on October 27, 2023.
Five Nights at Freddy's (song)
Five Nights at Freddy's (song): 2014 electronic fan song by The Living Tombstone (Yoav Landau, Sam Haft), inspired by Scott Cawthon's game; 372M+ YouTube views; Goth Remix plays in the 2023 film credits.
Five Nights at Freddy's (video game)
Five Nights at Freddy's (FNaF), 2014 indie point-and-click survival horror by Scott Cawthon in Clickteam Fusion; night guard Mike Schmidt survives animatronics Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy using cameras, doors, lights, and a draining power meter; spawned a film and near-$2 billion IP.
Five Nights at Freddy's 2
Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (FNAF 2), 2014 Scott Cawthon indie survival horror prequel set in 1987; doorless office, Freddy mask, music box, 11 animatronics; Metacritic 62; 2025 film grossed $238.6M.
Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (film)
Five Nights at Freddy's 2 is a 2025 American horror film directed by Emma Tammi, continuing Mike, Vanessa, and Abby's story one year after the 2023 film.
Five Nights at Freddy's 3
Five Nights at Freddy's 3 is Scott Cawthon's 2015 survival horror game set in the Fazbear's Fright attraction, where players repel Springtrap with audio lures while managing audio, camera, and ventilation failures, and unlock good or bad endings through secret minigames.
Five Nights at Freddy's 4
Five Nights at Freddy's 4 (FNAF 4), 2015 indie survival horror game by Scott Cawthon, fourth main series entry; a child defends a bedroom by listening for breathing, no cameras, flashlight only.
Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted
Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted (FNaF VR) is a 2019 VR survival horror game by Steel Wool Studios and ScottGames, a minigame collection spanning the series, with flat non-VR mode, Curse of Dreadbear DLC, and a 2023 sequel.
Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit
Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit is a 2024 2D pixel-art survival horror adventure by Mega Cat Studios, adapting the Fazbear Frights story of Oswald and a time-traveling ball pit; released August 8, 2024 on PC, Metacritic 87.
Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach
Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach (FNaF: SB), ninth FNaF game by Steel Wool Studios, published by ScottGames, released December 16, 2021 on PC, PS4, PS5; free-roam stealth horror starring Gregory in the Mega Pizzaplex, with Ruin DLC in July 2023.
Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location
Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location (FNAF 5) is Scott Cawthon's 2016 survival horror game set at Circus Baby's Entertainment and Rental, released October 7, 2016.
Five Oxen
Five Oxen (五牛图, Wuniu tu) is a Tang dynasty handscroll painting by the chancellor Han Huang showing five oxen, held in the Palace Museum in Beijing.
Five Pillars of Islam
The Five Pillars of Islam, or Arkan al-Islam, are the five core practices of the religion: the declaration of faith, daily prayer, almsgiving, fasting Ramadan, and pilgrimage to Mecca.
Five Point Someone
Five Point Someone: What Not to Do at IIT! is Chetan Bhagat's 2004 debut novel about three underperforming IIT Delhi students, Hari, Alok, and Ryan; it sold over a million copies and was adapted into the film 3 Idiots.
Five Points Gang
Five Points Gang: late-1890s New York street gang founded by Paul Kelly (Paolo Antonio Vaccarelli) in the Five Points slum, heir to the Dead Rabbits and Bowery Boys, tied to Tammany-era voter fraud.
Five Points of Calvinism
The five points of Calvinism are the doctrines of the Synod of Dort (1618–1619), remembered as TULIP: total depravity, unconditional election, limited atonement, irresistible grace, and perseverance.
Five Points, Manhattan
Five Points was a notorious 19th-century Lower Manhattan slum centered on the 1809 intersection of Orange, Cross, and Anthony Streets, known for tenements, gangs, Black and Irish community life, and later slum clearance.
Five Power Defence Arrangements
Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA): 1971 consultative defence pact of Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, and the UK to consult on attacks against Malaysia and Singapore; HQIADS at Butterworth, Bersama exercises.