It was the night Clayton had tricked them in the poker game.

It was strictly the deputy's game, but McBride had gone too far to throw in.

And while he was ever alert for game, and most particularly a tiger, Penny marvelled at the Eden they were traversing.

even when the fences became a part of the game -- when a vine-embowered gate-post was the Sleeping Beauty's enchanted castle, or when Rapunzel let down her golden hair from beneath the crocketed spire, even then we paid little heed to those who went by on the path outside.

One evening, while a volley-ball game was being played in the yard among the prisoners remaining there, a simulated melee was staged -- just as the gates were opened to admit other prisoners returning from work.

the pope was playing a dangerous game, with so many balls in the air at once that a misstep would bring them all about his ears, and his only hope was to temporize so that he could take advantage of every change in the delicate balance of European affairs.

The younger men, Vere, and Pembroke, who was also Edward's cousin and whose Lusignan blood gave him the swarthy complexion that caused Edward of Carnarvon's irreverent friend, Piers Gaveston, to nickname him `` Joseph the Jew '', were relatively new to the game of diplomacy, but Pontissara had been on missions to Rome before, and Hotham, a man of great learning, `` jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest religion, and pleasing in the eyes of all '', and an archbishop to boot, was as reliable and experienced as Othon himself.

To me it was a game, to her it was the deadly seriousness of life.

He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.

After all, when one has asked whatever became of old Joe and Charlie when one has inquired who it was Sue Brown married and where it is they now live when questions are asked and answered about families and children, and old professors when the game and its probable outcome has been exhausted that does it.

Enough of his life was spent there on the field for him never to like watching the game as a spectator in the crowd.

It was rather a childish game, all in all, but everybody seemed to be getting into the spirit of the thing and he could not remember when he had enjoyed planning anything quite so much.

`` Bull tailin' '' was a game once pop'lar with the Mexican cowboys of Texas.

( In the graveyard at Nairobi he had been shown the graves of thirty-four big game hunters killed hunting the animals he was attempting to lasso.

This was a bitterly fought game, carrying almost as much grudge as a fist fight, with no friendliness exhibited between the teams except the formal politeness that accompanied the setting forth of ground rules and agreements on balls that went into the crowd.

Every pitch in the game brought forth a howl from the enraptured audience and every fly ball the visitors dropped ( and because their right fielder was still a little fuzzy from drink, they dropped many ) called forth yelps of derision.

At one point in the game when the skinny old man in suspenders who was acting as umpire got in the way of a thrown ball and took it painfully in the kidneys, he lay there unattended while players and spectators wrangled over whether the ball was `` dead '' or the base runners were free to score.

Baseball was surely the national game in those days, even though professional baseball may have been merely a business.

Even a city of thirty thousand might have six baseball teams, sponsored by grocers and hardware merchants or department stores, that played two or three times a week throughout the summer, usually in the cool of the evening, before an earnest and partisan audience who did not begrudge a quarter each, or even more, to be dropped into a hat when the game was half over.

Ruth was a delinquent boy still, but he was in every way a great ball player who was out to win the game and occasionally risked a cracked bone to do it.

One of the persistent myths of baseball history is that Doubleday invented the game in 1839, although he was in West Point at the time.

The Doubleday Hill Monument, erected in Williamsport, Maryland to commemorate Doubleday's occupation of a hill there during the Civil War, claims he invented the game in 1835.

Three of the best-known figures in the sport are George Sappenfield, who privately called the game " Basket Frisbee ", " Steady Ed " Headrick who introduced the first formal disc golf target with chains and a basket, and Dave Dunipace who invented the modern golf disc.

* 1935 – The classic board game Monopoly is invented.

The game was invented in early 1970s in Gothenburg, Sweden.

In 1925, Naismith visited an Indiana basketball state finals game along with 15, 000 screaming fans and later wrote, that while it was invented in Massachusetts, " basketball really had its origin in Indiana, which remains the center of the sport.

It is said that a royal advisor had invented the game in order to teach his king prudence without having to overtly correct him.

Lugh is said to have invented the board game fidchell.

The winners are awarded the William Webb Ellis Cup, named after William Webb Ellis, the Rugby School pupil who – according to a popular myth – invented rugby football by picking up the ball during a game.

Kool Moe Dee states that Biggie introduced a newer flow which “ dominated from 1994 to 2002 ”, and also says that Method Man was “ one of the emcees from the early to mid -’ 90s that ushered in the era of flow ... Rakim invented it, Big Daddy Kane, KRS-One, and Kool G Rap expanded it, but Biggie and Method Man made flow the single most important aspect of an emcee ’ s game ”.

The modern version is based on the game reversi that was invented in 1883 by either of two Englishmen ( each calling the other a fraud ), Lewis Waterman or John W. Mollett ( or perhaps earlier by someone else entirely ), and gained considerable popularity in England at the end of the 19th century.

A 2002 press release about the origins of the modern game makes no mention of the original version: Othello was invented by Japanese game enthusiast, Goro Hasegawa in 1971.

In the December 1997 issue of Dragon Magazine, in an article on Garfield's trading card game patent application, it was reported that Garfield is the great-great-grandson of U. S. President James A. Garfield ( 1831 – 81 ), and that his great-uncle invented the paper clip.

In 1938, American architect Alfred Mosher Butts created the game as a variation on an earlier word game he invented called Lexiko.

* 1941 – Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese video game designer, invented Game Boy ( d. 1997 )

The mistakes in that game weren't invented, at least not by the people who made them.

In the book Chinese Origin Of Playing Cards published in 1895, Sir William Henry Wilkinson pointed out that the game of Tien Gow was invented long before Sung Dynasty, but was standardized in 1120:

The prisoner's dilemma game ( invented around 1950 by Merrill Flood and Melvin Dresher ) takes its name from the following scenario: you and a criminal associate have been busted.

Upwords, recently renamed " Scrabble Upwords " by Hasbro, is a board game invented by Elliot Rudell and originally published by the Milton Bradley Company ( which is now a division of Hasbro ).

It was not until 1972 that Magnavox released the first home video game console which could be connected to a TV set — the Magnavox Odyssey, invented by Ralph H. Baer.

The stunning Prussian victory over the Second French Empire in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871 is sometimes partly credited to the training of Prussian officers with the game Kriegspiel, which was invented around 1811 and gained popularity with many officers in the Prussian army.