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

Similarly, an article ( written from an in-universe perspective ) in the Call of Cthulhu tabletop role-playing game speculates that it may be a corruption of Abd Al-Azrad, which it claims translates to The Worshipper of the Great Devourer.

Military intelligence may explore issues through the use of game theory, Red Teaming, and wargaming.

Through the competitive Auction, characters may begin the game vying for standings.

If a player holds onto his stock, he runs the risk that the acquired chain may not reemerge before the game ends.

Any player may declare the game over at any time during his turn if either of two conditions is true: one chain has 41 or more tiles, or there is at least one chain on the board and every chain on the board has 11 or more tiles.

Ending the game is optional-if he believes it is to his advantage not to end the game, he may refrain from doing so.

Because ending the game is optional, and a player may not realize that he can end it, it is unethical to say " good game ", or in any other way indicate that the game could be ended, until after a player actually has ended the game.

Usually, compound bows are used for large game hunting and may feature fiber optic sights and other enhancements.

Luck may be introduced into a game by a number of methods.

Each player may control one or more game pieces.

Depending on the context, jumping may also involve capturing or conquering an opponent's game piece.

Alternatively, a unique position on the board on which a game piece may be located while in play.

There are a number of different categories that board games can be broken up into, although considerable overlap exists, and a game may belong in several categories.

All of the above statistics may be used in certain game situations.

A starting pitcher, then, may be credited with a game played even as he is not credited with a game started, an inning pitched, or a complete game.

The team with the most points at the end of the game wins, but additional time ( overtime ) may be issued when the game ends with a draw.

For the first rally of any doubles game, the serving pair may decide who serves and the receiving pair may decide who receives.

Cricket Australia proposed that the 2010 – 11 series consist of six Tests, with the additional game to be played at Bellerive Oval in Hobart.

Another important sub-class consists of algorithms for exploring the game tree of multiple-player games, such as chess or backgammon, whose nodes consist of all possible game situations that could result from the current situation.

Fighting game matches generally consist of several rounds ; the player who wins the most rounds wins the match.

A safari may consist of several days or even weeks-long journey, with camping in the bush or jungle, while pursuing big game.

According to early advertisements, the game would consist of an unprecedented five floppy disks, making it one of the largest titles developed for the Famicom up until that point.

Many game sessions consist of players taking their cars through many successive arena-style scenarios, upgrading their cars between each round.

Their diet is largely domestic agrarian, but does consist of meat from domesticated cows, chickens and goats, wild game, and freshwater fish.

In Yoshi's Story, Super Smash Bros., Mario Tennis, and almost every game since Super Smash Bros. Melee, his vocals consist of high-pitched baby-ish squeals backed with numerous unintelligible words and his own name.

A program to simulate this game would consist of several portions, one of which would be responsible for calculating the precise impacts between the billiard balls.

Although a player may field a mixed force of these armor, artillery, and infantry units on the table-top, in the game universe, the composition of any one regiment is fairly uniform ; that is, an infantry regiment will contain thousands of foot soldiers with only a minimal number of support vehicles and an armored regiment will consist of little else save its tanks.

The game controls consist of five plastic vertical rectangular keys that are arranged in a zig-zag pattern alike the letter " M " or in vibraphone type arranged.

The match was originally meant to consist of 30 games, but when it became obvious that there were insufficient funds ( Lasker demanded a fee of 1, 000 marks per game played ), the number of games was reduced to ten, making the margin of two points all the more difficult.

According to early advertisements, the game would consist of an unprecedented five floppy disks, making it one of the largest titles developed for the Famicom up until that point.

As much as morality, games consist of norms ( or rules ), but it would be hard to accept that it be not true that the chessplayer who checkmates the other one wins the game.

They may consist of singular images or be created and altered as a game, known as a string game, or as part of a story involving various figures made in sequence.

Since the objects in the game just consist of a simple image and a short description file, it is very easy to create a house or add a train.

Such a game would consist of either a DOS / 4GW 32-bit kernel, or a stub which loaded a DOS / 4GW kernel located in the path or in the same directory and a 32-bit " linear executable ".

As expansion packs consist solely of additional content, most expansion packs require the original game in order to play.

Network daytime schedules consist of talk shows and soap operas, with one network ( CBS ) still carrying game shows and a handful of other games airing in syndication ; local news may air at midday.

The new game will feature enhanced career and multiplayer modes, the ability to record footage for venues with the Xbox Live Vision and PlayStation Eye cameras, and a soundtrack that would consist of 50 tracks, all original versions rather than covers as with previous versions of the game.

The rule was first used in the 2009 – 10 Eurocup quarterfinals ( which consist of two-legged ties ), although no game in that phase of the competition ended in a regulation draw.

Following ten consecutive draws, Korchnoi threw away a winning position in the seventeenth game to give Karpov a 3 – 0 lead.

The remainder of the book is a collection of essays on the game, statistics for the new characters and an update of the older ones in light of their appearance in the second series, and ( perhaps most usefully for GMs ) plot summaries of each of the ten books.

In 2001, the ten game tour to Australia, saw the Wallabies win the test series 2 – 1.

This hand was called a " blackjack " and the name stuck to the game, even though the ten to one bonus was soon withdrawn.

In the modern game, a blackjack refers to any hand of an ace plus a ten or face card, regardless of suits or colours.

In a multi-hand, face-up, single deck game, it is possible to establish whether insurance is a good bet simply by observing the other cards on the table after the deal ; even if there are just 2 player hands exposed, and neither of their two initial cards is a ten, then 16 in 47 of the remaining cards are tens, which is larger than 1 in 3, so insurance is a good bet.

The ten outfield players may be arranged in these positions in any combination ( for example, there may be three defenders, five midfielders, and two forwards ), and the number of players in each position determines the style of the team's play ; more forwards and fewer defenders would create a more aggressive and offensive-minded game, while the reverse would create a slower, more defensive style of play.

2005 was their busiest year for many years with ten releases for the game and many more scheduled for release in the near future.

The Panthers have played in ten postseason games, wearing the white jerseys in all but their most recent playoff game.

" I never warmed up ten, fifteen minutes before a game like most pitchers do.

Under coach Vince Lombardi the Packers dominated the 1960s, defeating the Cowboys in four regular-season meetings and two playoff games ; on January 1, 1967 the Packers held off a late Cowboys drive inside the ten yard line to win 34-27 on a game ending interception of a Meredith pass in the endzone.

In the last ten minutes, veteran striker Uwe Seeler looped a back header over Bonetti to take the game into extra time ; then Gerd Müller smashed home the winner in the added period.

Argentina were talented but preferred a tougher approach to the game, which saw them reduced to ten men.

In keeping with their social orientation, numbers are usually low in magnitude, often under ten, and any arithmetic in the game is typically trivial.

In the 1996 World Cup, he scored 78 and 45 * against New Zealand and Pakistan respectively as South Africa won their group but in the Quarter final with West Indies a Brian Lara century ended their ten game winning streak.

Unitas threw for 376 yards and two scores but was sacked six times as the Jets won 44-34 ; the game was considered one of the top ten passing duels in NFL history.

Jacksonville mayor Tommy Hazouri offered Adams a city-backed guarantee that the " Jacksonville Oilers " would sell out every game in the 82, 000 seat Gator Bowl for the first ten years.

Because Livestrong Sporting Park was not ready for the beginning of the 2011 season, Sporting Kansas City played its first ten games on the road, only winning one game.

Edge gave it a score of 8 / 10 in its original 1996 review of the game, and in its October 2003 issue the magazine's staff placed Nights in its list of the ten greatest platform games.

* Poker table: A typical poker game will have between two and ten players.

At the time of his death, Clemente had established several records with the Pirates, including most triples in a game ( three ) and hits in two consecutive games ( ten ).

On May 8, 2006, Naka left the group with ten other members of Sonic Team to establish an independent game developer, Prope.

In the 34 years since then, the Chargers have made ten trips to the playoffs and four appearances in the AFC Championship game.

IBSA rules require that any time during a game that one team has scored ten ( 10 ) more goals than the other team that game is deemed completed.