While women had always attended ball games in small numbers ( it was the part of a `` dead game sport '' in the early years of the twentieth century to be taken out to the ball park and to root, root, root for the home team ), they had often sat in patient martyrdom, unable even to read the scoreboard, which sometimes seemed to indicate that one team led another by a score of three hundred and eighty to one hundred and fifty-one.

Each issue is a collection of contributions from different authors, often featuring game design discussions, rules variants, write-ups of game sessions, reviews, and comments on others contributions.

As many of the New Englanders were originally from England game hunting was often a pastime from back home that paid off when they immigrated to the New World.

20 ) contains earliest known reference to Latrunculi ( often confused with Ludus Duodecim Scriptorum, Ovid's game mentioned below ).

The namesake of the board game, gameboards would seem to be a necessary and sufficient condition of the genre, though card games that do not use a standard deck of cards ( as well as games which use neither cards nor a gameboard ) are often colloquially included.

Games played ( most often abbreviated as G or GP ) is a statistic used in team sports to indicate the total number of games in which a player has participated ( in any capacity ); the statistic is generally applied irrespective of whatever portion of the game is contested.

Badminton is also played outdoors as a casual recreational activity, often as a garden or beach game.

As the playing time for each individual game is short, it is often played in matches, where victory is awarded to the first player to reach a certain number of points.

In money games, a player is often permitted to " beaver " when offered the cube, doubling the value of the game again, while retaining possession of the cube.

At the end of the game, the last remaining housemate is declared the winner of that particular series and receives prizes, often including a large amount of money, a car, a vacation and ( in some editions ) a house.

The rules are often framed in broad terms, which allow flexibility in their application depending on the nature of the game.

The game was given a large amount of advance publicity in the comics, with story lines often revolving how the characters each acquired his / her vehicle.

When a game becomes sufficiently popular, so that people often play it with strangers, there is a need for a generally accepted set of rules.

Another game often played as a drinking game is Toepen, quite popular in the Netherlands.

The game, often abbreviated as CoC, is published by Chaosium.

A counting-out game is a simple game intended to select a person to be " it ", often for the purpose of playing another game.

Capoeiristas often prefer to rely on a takedown like a rasteira, then allowing the opponent to recover and get back into the game.

In the modern African American community, the game of street craps is generally called shooting dice, and is played on the floor or on a sidewalk, often without a back-stop.

In the game of shooting dice, there is no marked table and often the game is played with no back-stop against which the dice are to hit.

( Despite the name " street craps ," this game is often played in houses, usually on an uncarpeted garage or kitchen floor.

If the score reaches 20-all, then the game continues until one side gains a two point lead ( such as 24 – 22 ), up to a maximum of 30 points ( 30 – 29 is a winning score ).

This alternating pattern continues through the game which is typically over 15 ends.

Steve Jackson Games continues to support the game, releasing an updated errata sheet in 2007.

Such games are not difficult at the onset, but become much more challenging as the game continues as players become inebriated and their coordination and memory deteriorate.

After the game, Lindsay skated around the Olympia ice with the Cup, beginning a tradition that continues today.

After all the players are put out, the team is revived and the game continues.

The game continues until five or seven ' Iona ' are secured.

MMORPGs are distinguished from single-player or small multi-player RPGs by the number of players, and by the game's persistent world ( usually hosted by the game's publisher ), which continues to exist and evolve while the player is offline and away from the game.

If the football passes through your goal line, but ends up elsewhere due to further jumps, the game continues.

It is called the mercy rule because it spares the losing team the humiliation of suffering a more formal loss, and denies the winning team the satisfaction thereof, and prevents running up the score, a generally discouraged practice in which the opponent continues to score beyond the point when the game has become out of hand.

Another variant some states use with the " continuous clock " rule allows coaches and game officials to choose to end a game at their own discretion any time during the second half, especially if a lopsided margin continues to increase or threatening weather strikes.

As with other sports, some states offer provisions to allow a team to end the game early by mutual decision of the coaches ( for instance, if a large lead continues to grow and the talent disparity is obvious ).

The game continues until there is a winner.

One of the earliest forms of killing prey for humans, hunting game with a spear and spear fishing continues to this day as both a means of catching food and as a cultural activity.

Outside the novels, John Clark's career continues further in the Rainbow Six video game series.

Each successful attack will deplete a character's health, and the game continues until a fighter's energy reaches zero.

The game continues in this manner, rallying back and forth, until the ball touches the court within the boundaries or until an error is made.

The game continues, with the first team to score 25 points by a two-point margin is awarded the set.

While they defuse the situation, Joshua nonetheless continues the simulation to trigger the scenario and win the game.

* The Dopefish, an enemy character from Secret of the Oracle, has become one of the biggest video game in-jokes and appeared in many games over the years ( such as in all Quake games except Quake 4 ) and continues to make hidden appearances in modern titles.

Willow appears in every Buffy episode ( making her the only character besides Buffy herself to do so ), is featured in three episodes of the spinoff Angel, an animated series and video game — both of which use Hannigan's voice, and the comic Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight ( 2007 – 2011 ), which uses Hannigan's likeness and continues Willow's storyline following the television series.

Another three-player variation is " Sevens " in which one player plays against two players as a team, with the game being played to seven points ; if the two player team gets to seven first, the game is over, but if the solo player gets to seven first then the game continues to 14 ; if the solo player again reaches 14 first, then the game continues to 21, where the game ends regardless of whether the solo player or the two player team reach 21 first.