There is also a variant in Bolivia when it is played in a Chakana or Inca Cross grid, which adds more complications to the game.

Acey-deucey is a variant of backgammon in which players start with no checkers on the board, and must bear them on at the beginning of the game.

A variant of counting-out game, known as Josephus problem, represents a famous theoretical problem in mathematics and computer science.

In the capture variant, all sixty game pieces start out in the hexagonal field in the center of the gameboard.

Color is irrelevant in this variant, so players take turns hopping any game piece over any other eligible game piece ( s ) on the board.

" Advanced play " ( a variant of association play for expert players ) gives penalties to a player who runs certain hoops in a turn, to allow the opponent a chance of getting back into the game ; feats of skill such as triple peels or better, in which the partner ball ( or occasionally an opponent ball ) is caused to run a number of hoops in a turn by the striker's ball help avoid these penalties.

It is derived from grand hazard, and both can be considered a variant of sic bo, a popular casino game, although chuck-a-luck is more of a carnival game than a true casino game.

Clabbers is a game played by tournament Scrabble players for fun, or occasionally at Scrabble variant tournaments.

* Ninuki-renju or Wu is a variant which adds capturing to the game ; it was published in the USA in a slightly simplified form under the name Pente.

These scripts use a syntactic variant of C, thus allowing special sequencing of game actions.

* Lowball ( poker ), a variant of the card game poker, in which hand values are reversed so that the lowest-valued hand wins

This game is a chess variant for four players, described as representing a conflict between the four elements and the four humors.

He named the game MUD ( Multi-User Dungeon ), in tribute to the Dungeon variant of Zork, which Trubshaw had greatly enjoyed playing.

One may declare a number of cards to draw in a draw poker game ( which is typically not binding ), or one may declare some other choice specific to the variant being played.

Pente is a strategy board game created in 1977 by Gary Gabrel, based on the Japanese game ninuki-renju, a variant of renju or gomoku which is played on a Go board of 19 x 19 intersections with white and black stones.

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.

# In an " endless " variant, the game starts with an empty field.

# In the " continuous " variant, whenever a vertical set of blocks has been cleared and the remaining blocks have shifted to one side, a new, randomly-selected column of blocks will pop up on the other side, thereby allowing a game to be played for an extended amount of time.

Twenty-eight Mission cards also come with the game to be used in the Secret Mission Risk rule variant.

In the variant of German that is spoken in Germany, the words stehen ( to stand ) and gestehen ( to confess ) are identical in the present perfect: habe gestanden.

" Artiste " ( the French for artist ) is a variant used in English only in this context.

Strictly speaking, the AES standard is a variant of Rijndael where the block size is restricted to 128 bits.

AES is a variant of Rijndael which has a fixed block size of 128 bits, and a key size of 128, 192, or 256 bits.

ΑΒΡΑΣΑΞ, which is far more common in the sources than the variant form Abraxas, ΑΒΡΑΞΑΣ ) was a word of mystic meaning in the system of the Gnostic Basilides, being there applied to the “ Great Archon ” ( Gk., megas archōn ), the princeps of the 365 spheres ( Gk., ouranoi ).

" The more accurate " amarant " is an archaic variant.

A variant of the Eastern Arabic numerals used in the Persian and Urdu languages is shown as East Arabic-Indic.

In linguistics, an allomorph is a variant form of a morpheme.

In other cases, the speaker is able to select freely from free variant allophones, based on personal habit or preference.

Because this protein gp120 is necessary for HIV to attach, it does not change across different strains and is a point of vulnerability across the entire range of the HIV variant population.

The word " allele " is a short form of allelomorph (' other form '), which was used in the early days of genetics to describe variant forms of a gene detected as different phenotypes.

A folkloric note about caña quemada: until June 21 it is traditional to drink caña quemada with ruda macho ( a variant of common rue ), it is supposed that this mixture prevents the flu and other illnesses.

This fish, especially the blind variant, is reasonably popular among.

Amok is also sometimes considered one of the subcategories of dissociative disorders ( cross-cultural variant ).

In Buddhism, a bodhisattva ( bodhisattva ; bodhisatta ) is either an enlightened ( bodhi ) existence ( sattva ) or an enlightenment-being or, given the variant Sanskrit spelling satva rather than sattva, " heroic-minded one ( satva ) for enlightenment ( bodhi ).

Kernighan is also known as a coiner of the expression " What You See Is All You Get ( WYSIAYG )", which is a sarcastic variant of the original " What You See Is What You Get " ( WYSIWYG ).

A variant of this sequence alignment is used in the sequencing process itself.

A variant played in Poland allows a player to claim a region of several squares as soon as its boundary is completed.

A variant of the doubling cube " beaver " is the " raccoon.

There are two classes of high-performance algorithms for solving instances of SAT in practice: the conflict-driven clause learning algorithm, which can be viewed as a modern variant of the DPLL algorithm ( well known implementation include Chaff, GRASP ) and stochastic local search algorithms, such as WalkSAT.

When BSE material infects humans, the resulting disease is known as ( new ) variant CJD ( nvCJD ).

A variant of Coral 66 was developed during the late 1970s / early 1980s by the British GPO, in conjunction with GEC, STC and Plessey, for use on the System X digital telephone exchange control computers, known as PO-CORAL.

Digital Research produced a compatible variant known as DR DOS, which was eventually taken over ( after a buyout of Digital Research ) by Novell, then by Caldera.

Hungarian, Slovenian, and Romanian fiddle players are often accompanied by a three-stringed variant of the viola known as the kontra, or as well as double bass, with cimbalom and clarinet being less standard yet still common additions to a band.

This variant is commonly known as " seven-to-ace " or " ace-to-seven " ( abbreviated as A-7 or 7-A ).

One variant ( known as O ' Toole's Corollary of Finagle's Law ) favored among hackers is a takeoff on the second law of thermodynamics ( also known as entropy ):

In 1920, a variant of Type F film known as X-back was introduced to counteract the effects of static electricity on the film, which can cause sparking and create odd exposure patterns on the film.

When considered over a countable language, the completeness and compactness theorems are equivalent to each other and equivalent to a weak form of choice known as weak König's lemma, with the equivalence provable in RCA < sub > 0 </ sub > ( a second-order variant of Peano arithmetic restricted to induction over Σ < sup > 0 </ sup >< sub style =" margin-left :- 0. 6em "> 1 </ sub > formulas ).

Although eating tainted beef can lead to New Variant Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease ( the human variant of mad-cow disease, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy ), there is no known case of BSE having been transmitted through collagen products such as gelatin.

Also known as road hockey, this is a dry-land variant of ice and roller hockey played on a hard surface ( usually asphalt ).

* Hack squat, a variant of the squat exercise, known in Germany as Hacke ( heel ), popularised in the English-speaking countries by Georg Hackenschmidt.

The were-boar variant is known through Greece and Turkey.

From the AKM he developed a squad automatic weapon variant, known as the RPK (-Kalashnikov light machine gun ), and also the PK (-Kalashnikov machine gun ), which used the more powerful 7. 62 × 54R of the Mosin-Nagant rifle.

Moctezuma II ( c. 1466 – 29 June 1520 ), also known by a number of variant spellings including Montezuma, Moteuczoma, Motecuhzoma and referred to in full by early Nahuatl texts as Motecuhzoma Xocoyotzin ( Moctezuma the Young ), was the ninth tlatoani or ruler of Tenochtitlan, reigning from 1502 to 1520.

But according to Hinnells, no such variant of the myth is known, and that this is merely speculation: " In no known Iranian text Zoroastrian or otherwise does Mithra slay a bull "

A variant of the procedure known as the reverse northern blot is occasionally used.

Additionally, a Yenisei variant is known from 9th-century Kyrgyz inscriptions, and it has likely cousins in the Talas Valley of Turkestan and the Old Hungarian script of the 10th century.

Cryoelectron microscopy is used to produce lower-resolution structural information about very large protein complexes, including assembled viruses ; a variant known as electron crystallography can also produce high-resolution information in some cases, especially for two-dimensional crystals of membrane proteins.

In other dialects she was known under variant names: Persephassa (), Persephatta (), or simply Korē (, " girl, maiden ").