" Roque " is not to be confused with " roquet ", the term used in both roque and croquet for the bonus shot a player earns after striking another ball ( on which he is not " dead ") with his own.

* Charles Brown ( roque player ) ( 1867 – 1937 ), American roque player and Olympic bronze medalist

In Steinbeck's book Sweet Thursday, a chapter is dedicated to describing a ( probably fictional ) rivalry that arose among the town's residents over the game of roque.

* While croquet is played with six wickets or nine wickets, roque is played with ten arches configured similarly to nine-wicket lawn croquet.

* Like baseball, roque is played in " innings ," with ten innings per game.

However, unlike American croquet which employs the carryover deadness rule, roque follows the Association rule wherein deadness is cleared after the player's turn ends.

A roque tournament is held annually in Angelica, New York, USA.

While there are reports that the American Roque League still operates, and that roque is played in Chautauqua, Illinois, USA, there is no independent evidence of this.

This is despite the survival of croquet, the creation of new variants of croquet, the smaller court, the relative ease of maintaining the court, and the indoor playing possibilities of roque.

The character Ullman tells Torrance that roque is the older, original form of the game and croquet is a " bastardized " American version.

In fact, croquet is the original European game and roque is a later American variation.

* Using the rubber side of the mallet, roque players apply spin to a ball to affect its movement, as in billiards.

* In roque, a wall marks the boundary of the court off of which the ball may be caromed.

Croquet was an event at the 1900 Summer Olympics and roque, an American variation on croquet, an event at the 1904 Summer Olympics.

At the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, a roque tournament was contested.

It was the only time that roque was included in the Olympic program.

Park Circle, in the village center, includes a roque court.

While in nine-wicket croquet the single central wicket opens up to the length of the court facing the stakes, in roque the double center arches face the sides of the court.

In roque, the two teams are red and blue versus black and white.

* In roque, the side ( or corner ) arches ( identified as points 3, 5, 11, and 13 ) can only be scored by a roquet or continuation shot.

Thus, unlike croquet, one side cannot defensively " stake-out " an opponent's rover in roque.

* Like croquet, roque makes use of deadness.

* Like croquet, roque players mark their progress on the court by placing colored markers on the arches.

However, while croquet traditionally places the marker on the top of the wicket for the first pass-through and on the side of the wicket for the second pass, roque markers were usually placed at the top of the arch and were labeled on one side.

Roque developed sub-variants, including two-ball roque and royal roque.

The name " roque " was suggested by Mr. Samuel Crosby of New York in 1899, who came to it by removing the initial " c " and final " t " from " croquet.

The American Roque League was founded in 1916 and, after mergers with various other roque entities, became the centralized roque league on August 20, 1920.

Considering that roque was hailed as the " Game of the Century " by its enthusiasts, and was an event at the 1904 Summer Olympics held in St. Louis, Missouri, the demise of the sport was meteoric.

The arches used in croquet and roque are sometimes referred to as wickets, especially in American English.

Then, starting with the first player, each player draws six tiles.

The cards are shuffled before each deal, and the dealer deals the cards clockwise one at a time, starting with the left-hand opponent, so that each player receives a hand of thirteen cards.

Charlton's next England game was his 75th as England beat Northern Ireland ; 2 caps later and he had become England's second most-capped player, behind the veteran Billy Wright, who was approaching his 100th appearance when Charlton was starting out and ended with 105 caps.

A come bet can be visualized as starting an entirely new pass line bet, unique to that player.

The player takes on the role of the ruler of a civilization, starting with only one settler unit, and attempts to build an empire in competition with two to six other civilizations.

For example, if a player's " home " or destination corner is empty ( not an opponent's starting corner ), the player can freely arrange his / her pieces to serve as a ' ladder ' or ' bridge ' between the two opposite ends.

The player is standing in the terrorist starting zone of de_dust using a CV-47 ( AK-47 ).

The player character faces them in large numbers, with the number generally increased when the higher of the game's five difficulty levels is chosen when starting a new game.

While a player is taking a free hit or starting a corner the back swing of their hit cannot be too high for this is considered dangerous.

On August 12, the Marlins only had one player from their opening day line-up, Jose Reyes, in the game's starting line-up.

* Efforts to improve fairness by reducing first-move advantage include the rule of swap, generalizable as " swap -( x, y, z )" and characterizable as a partially compounded and partially iterated version of the pie rule (" one person slices ; the other chooses "): One player places on the board x stones of the first-moving color and a lesser number y stones of the second-moving color (" slicing " in the pie metaphor ); the other player is entitled to choose between a ) playing from the starting position, in which case the selecting player is also entitled to choose which color to play, and b ) placing z ( usually-y ) + 1 ) more stones on the board at locations of that player's choice (" reslicing " in the pie metaphor, with limitations created by the board's existing setup akin to limitations arising from the existing slices in the pie ), in which case the former player is entitled to choose which color side to play.

She is the only player class to have a ranged starting weapon, whereas all other characters start with melee weapons.

The player then defines it as a " jet of fire ," with all that implies: it has the possibility of starting secondary fires ; it looks, smells and sounds like a jet of fire ; etc.

Each player creates his character starting with a pool of points to buy abilities ( such as the aforementioned " Energy Blast " and " Armor "), increase characteristics ( such as " Strength " and " Intelligence ") and buy skills ( such as " Computer Programming " and " Combat Driving ").

A player must first throw a six to be able to move a piece from the starting area onto the starting square.

When a player throws a 6 the player may bring a new piece onto the starting square, or may choose to move a piece already in play.

The dealer ( initially determined by cutting cards ) deals out the cards one by one, starting with the player to his left, in a clockwise direction, until the required number of cards has been dealt.

On a twist round, players make the decision of which card to replace in turn starting with the player who bet first on the preceding round ( usually the player whose upcards make the best hand ), discarding the card they choose to replace, if any.