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Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff

Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff is TinyCo's 2014 free-to-play Quahog city-builder mobile game with clam premium currency, later run by Jam City, styled after The Simpsons: Tapped Out.

Fan Controlled Football

Fan Controlled Football (FCF) was a 7-on-7 indoor football league, streamed on Twitch, where fans called plays and drafted players; it played seasons in 2021 and 2022 before going defunct.

Fan Kexin

Fan Kexin (范可新, born 1993) is a Chinese short track speed skater who won gold in the mixed team relay at the 2022 Beijing Olympics and five 500 m world titles.

Fan tan

Fan tan, also called Sevens, Parliament, or Card Dominoes, is a shedding card game where players build suit rows out from the 7s; distinct from the Chinese bead-counting gambling game of the same name.

Fan Zhendong (樊振东)

Fan Zhendong (樊振东), born 1997 in Guangzhou, is a Chinese table tennis player, 2024 Olympic singles champion, 2021 and 2023 world champion, career Grand Slam winner who left the ITTF world rankings in December 2024 over WTT fine rules.

Fandango (wrestler)

Fandango (Curtis Hussey), also Johnny Curtis, Dirty Dango, and JDC, is a retired American wrestler (1999-2026) known for the WWE ballroom-dancer gimmick, beating Chris Jericho at WrestleMania 29, and Breezango.

Fandi Ahmad

Fandi Ahmad (born 1962), Singapore's most famous footballer; national striker from 1979, 55 international goals, FC Groningen 1983-85, Malaysia Cup winner 1980 and 1994, later coach.

Fang

Fang (方棋, square chess) is a traditional Chinese alignment-and-capture board game of Xinjiang and northern China, played on a 7x7 grid with 25 black and 24 white pieces; players form squares and seven-piece rows to capture, and a player reduced to three pieces loses.

Fang mich!

Fang mich! ... wenn du kannst (Catch me! if you can) is a 1982 German memory-and-chase children's board game by Oded Berman, published by Spear's Games; 24 hidden discs drive movement, 2-4 players, Spiel des Jahres recommended 1982.

Fani Chalkia

Fani Chalkia (Φανή Χαλκιά), born in 1979 in Larisa, is a Greek hurdler who won the 400 meters hurdles gold at the 2004 Athens Olympics.

Fanny Blankers-Koen

Fanny Blankers-Koen (Francina Elsje Koen, 1918-2004), Dutch sprinter and hurdler nicknamed the Flying Housewife, won four golds at the 1948 London Olympics and was named IAAF Female Athlete of the Century in 1999.

Fanny Crenshaw

Fanny Graves Crenshaw (1890-1984), American educator and athletic director at Westhampton College, University of Richmond; set 1912 women's long jump world record 4.65 m, coached basketball 166-58-6, co-founded USFHA.

Fanny Durack

Fanny Durack (Sarah Frances Durack, 1889–1956), Australian swimmer who won the 100m freestyle at Stockholm 1912, the first Olympic women's swimming event, becoming Australia's first female Olympic gold medallist and holder of twelve world records.

Fanny Fischer

Fanny Fischer (Fanny Rauhe), German sprint kayaker born 1986 in Potsdam, KC Potsdam; 2008 Beijing Olympic K4 500 m gold, three world and four European titles, niece of Birgit Fischer, retired 2011.

Fanny Rinne

Fanny Rinne (Fanny Rinne-Cihlar), born 1980 in Mannheim, German field hockey player; Olympic gold 2004, four Games 2000-2012, 341 caps, 131 goals, EuroHockey Hall of Fame 2025.

Fanny Smith

Fanny Smith, born 1992, Swiss ski cross racer; three Olympic medals (silver 2026, bronze 2018 and 2022), three world titles, four Crystal Globes, 37 World Cup wins.

Fanorona

Fanorona, Madagascar's national board game, a 9x5 Alquerque-derived capture game with approach and withdrawal captures; weakly solved in 2008 by Schadd et al. as a draw with perfect play.

Fantasy Life (ファンタジーライフ)

Fantasy Life (ファンタジーライフ) is a Level-5/Brownie Brown life sim and action RPG for Nintendo 3DS, Japan 2012, West 2014; sequel FANTASY LIFE i: The Girl Who Steals Time released May 21, 2025.

Fantasy sport

Fantasy sport: participants build virtual teams of real athletes and score points from real-game statistics. Began with 1963 GOPPPL football and 1980 Rotisserie baseball; now tens of millions of players and a multi-billion-dollar industry including daily fantasy sports.

Fantasy Westward Journey

Fantasy Westward Journey (梦幻西游) is a 2D turn-based MMORPG by Chinese company NetEase, launched in January 2004 and set in the mythology of Journey to the West.

Fantoni and Nunes cheating scandal

Fantoni and Nunes cheating scandal: 2015 bridge allegations against Fulvio Fantoni and Claudio Nunes, world No. 1 and 2, caught signaling via vertical/horizontal card placement; convicted by EBL and ACBL, overturned by CAS in 2018.

Far away

Far away names two tabletop games: Faraway (Catch Up Games, 2023), a 2-6 player card game with reverse scoring by Goupy and Lebrat, and Far Away (Cherry Picked Games, 2020), a two-player cooperative sci-fi survival game by Jerabek.

Far Cry

Far Cry is Ubisoft's open-world first-person shooter franchise, begun by Crytek in 2004. Includes Far Cry 2-6, Primal, Blood Dragon, New Dawn; 100 million unique players; Far Cry 7 unannounced.

Far Cry (film)

Far Cry is a 2008 German-Canadian biopunk action film directed by Uwe Boll, based on the Ubisoft video game and starring Til Schweiger and Emmanuelle Vaugier.

Far Cry (video game)

Far Cry (2004) is a first-person shooter by Crytek, published by Ubisoft, starring Jack Carver on a tropical island; it introduced the CryEngine, sold nearly 3 million copies, and launched the Far Cry franchise.

Far Cry 2

Far Cry 2 (Ubisoft Montreal, 2008) is an open-world African first-person shooter on the Dunia engine, starring the Jackal hunt, malaria, jamming guns, fire propagation, and a 12-buddy dynamic narrative; PC Metascore 85.

Far Cry 3

Far Cry 3 is Ubisoft's 2012 open-world FPS set on the fictional Rook archipelago, starring Jason Brody and villain Vaas Montenegro; developed by Ubisoft Montreal, Massive, and Shanghai, it scored 88 on Metacritic and defined the series' outpost, crafting, and skill-tree loop.

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is a 2013 standalone Ubisoft Montreal spin-off of Far Cry 3, a neon 1980s-parody shooter starring cyber-commando Rex Colt (Michael Biehn) fighting cyborgs and laser-eyed Blood Dragons; Metascore 80, later re-released as Classic Edition.

Far Cry 4

Far Cry 4 is a 2014 open-world first-person shooter by Ubisoft Montreal, set in Kyrat, a fictional Himalayan country based on Nepal and Bhutan, where Ajay Ghale joins the Golden Path rebellion against self-appointed king Pagan Min.

Far Cry 5

Far Cry 5 is a 2018 Ubisoft Montreal open-world FPS set in Hope County, Montana, fighting the cult Project at Eden's Gate led by Joseph Seed; first US-set Far Cry, fastest-selling in the franchise, Metacritic 81.