This is because the game is similar to a number line in that they promote a linear understanding of numbers rather than the innate logarithmic one.

One of the significant rules prohibited " soaking " or " plugging " the runner ; under older rules, a fielder could put a runner out by hitting the runner with the thrown ball, similar to the common schoolyard game of kickball.

Mahjong is a very similar game played with tiles instead of cards.

Crokinole ( ) is an action board game similar in various ways to pitchnut, carrom, marbles, and shove ha ' penny, with elements of shuffleboard and curling reduced to table-top size.

Almost every item in the game can be normal, cursed, or enchanted, with curses and enchantments working in a manner similar to NetHack.

The 1952 and 1953 seasons followed a similar pattern, with Cleveland reaching the championship game but losing both times to the Detroit Lions.

The second theory is that the rules of the modern game of croquet arrived from Ireland during the 1850s, perhaps after being brought there from Brittany where a similar game was played on the beaches.

Records show the similar game of " crookey " being played at Castlebellingham in 1834, which was introduced to Galway in 1835 and played on the bishop's palace garden, and in the same year to the genteel Dublin suburb of Kingstown ( today Dún Laoghaire ) where it was first spelt as " croquet ".

Harvard, who was trying to get away from the soccer like game that many schools played, set out to find another school who played a game similar to them.

Another similar game took place between Rutgers and Columbia University in 1870.

The early success of Dungeons & Dragons led to a proliferation of similar game systems.

* Corporate Shuffle by Richard Garfield — 1997 ; A Dilbert-branded card game similar to Wizard of the Coast's The Great Dalmuti and the drinking game President

When, three years later, 3D Realms released Duke Nukem 3D, a tongue-in-cheek science fiction shooter based on Ken Silverman's technologically similar Build engine, id Software had nearly finished Quake, its next-generation game, which mirrored Dooms success for the remainder of the 1990s and significantly reduced interest in its predecessor.

The game is similar to fantasy games like Dungeons & Dragons, but draws more inspiration from games like RuneQuest.

The classes can be categorized based on similar characteristics that allow them to play certain types of roles within the game when grouped with others.

While the game engine itself remained relatively similar between all games in the series, the interface went through many changes.

In East Asia, a similar game was entertained, using a carved wooden stick and ball prior to 300 BC.

This is a similar game to the French Pétanque which is actually played very little on the island, although there are a few teams and courts.

* Grass ( card game ), a cannabis-themed card game similar to Mille Bornes

Geocaching is similar to the 150-year-old game letterboxing, which uses clues and references to landmarks embedded in stories.

The game is quite similar to Geocaching but has time limitations and hints in it.

Westinghouse has a similar system, with two classifications representing various levels of competence on the strictly technical side: consulting engineer or scientist, as the case may be, and advisory engineer or scientist.

While Zhuyin is not used as a mainstream writing system, it is still often used in ways similar to a romanization system — that is, for aiding in pronunciation and as an input method for Chinese characters on computers and cellphones.

In Cyrillic originally the letters were given names based on Slavic words ; this was later abandoned as well in favor of a system similar to that used in Latin.

Basic theories, such as arithmetic, real analysis and complex analysis are often introduced non-axiomatically, but implicitly or explicitly there is generally an assumption that the axioms being used are the axioms of Zermelo – Fraenkel set theory with choice, abbreviated ZFC, or some very similar system of axiomatic set theory like Von Neumann – Bernays – Gödel set theory, a conservative extension of ZFC.

The Romans had a similar belief system about the afterlife, with Hades becoming known as Pluto.

* 1874 – Japan launches its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in the United Kingdom.

Stephen R. Donaldson, in his Gap Series, proposed a similar system, Symbiotic Crystalline Resonance Transmission, clearly ansible-type technology, but was very difficult to produce and limited to text messages.

The initial concept was known as AppleBus, envisioning a system controlled by the host Macintosh polling " dumb " devices in a fashion similar to the modern Universal Serial Bus.

In the earliest Indian astronomy texts, the year was believed to be 360 days long, similar to that of Babylonian astrology, but the rest of the early astrological system bears little resemblance.

One nibble of such a byte then controlled the foreground color, and the other nibble controlled the background color, a system very similar to the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, in fact in the 256x192 mode the display mode was virtually identical to the video of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum.

The desire to create air portable armoured vehicles that can still take on conventional MBTs has usually resulted ATGM armed light vehicles or in protected / armoured / mobile gun system style vehicles in which a lack of armour protection being in part offset by the provision of a first look / first hit / first kill capability through the mating of a powerful gun to superior targeting electronics, a concept similar in operation to that of the US tank destroyers of WWII.

The output of the preamplifier then goes to a separate amplifier system similar to that for an electric guitar.

Morphine, the archetypal opioid, and various other substances ( e. g. codeine, oxycodone, hydrocodone, dihydromorphine, pethidine ) all exert a similar influence on the cerebral opioid receptor system.

However, the defining recommendation indicates a change to a system similar to ISO 8601 and astronomical year numbering is likely in the future.

GCC, which had a background in creating arcade games, designed their new system with a graphical architecture similar to arcade machines of the time.

Powering the system was an Atari SALLY 6502 ( Atari's slightly custom 6502, sometimes described as a " 6502C ") processor running at 1. 79 MHz, similar to the processor found in home computers ( Atari 8-bit, Apple II, Commodore 64 ) and other consoles ( Atari 5200 and Nintendo Entertainment System ).

The distinction between broadcast and collision domains comes about because simple Ethernet and similar systems use a shared transmission system.

The Cleminson system is not a true bogie, but serves a similar purpose.

" In this way, the common law was eventually incorporated into the legal systems of every state except Louisiana ( which inherited a civil law system from its French colonizers before the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, adopting a code similar to but not directly based on the Napoleonic Code of 1804 ).

The reason for the enactment of the codes in California in the 19th century was to replace a pre-existing system based on Spanish civil law with a system based on common law, similar to that in most other states.

Roman Dutch Commons law is a bijuridical or mixed system of law similar to the common law system in Scotland and Louisiana.