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.

In the fast-paced or Super Chinese Checkers variant, played in Mainland China and popular in France, a piece may hop over a non-adjacent piece.

Gateball, a sport originated in Japan under the influence of croquet, is played mainly in East and Southeast Asia and the Americas, it can also be regarded as a croquet variant.

However, the original Counter-Strike is still available and played by many people via Steam, as the two variants are quite different, and players inevitably prefer one variant over the other.

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

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

* Skater hockey is a variant of inline hockey, played with a ball.

Alfonso also describes a variant played on a board with seven points in each table.

Pachisi variant being played on a Ludo board in Nepal

In one common variant, exactly thirteen hands are played — the final hand, in which each player is dealt 13 cards, is played without a trump suit ( or by cutting the deck to determine trump ).

Cards may be dealt either face-up or face-down, depending on the variant of poker being played.

The player with the best hand according to the poker variant being played wins the pot.

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.

* Knightmare Chess, a chess variant played with cards.

* Tile Chess, a multiplayer chess variant which can be played without a chess board.

# 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.

An early variant of Tic-tac-toe was played in the Roman Empire, around the first century BC.

Another variant is played on a 4 × 4 × 4 board, though it was solved by Oren Patashnik in 1980 ( the first player can force a win ).

A more complex variant can be played on boards utilising higher dimensional space, most commonly 4 dimensions in a 3 × 3 × 3 × 3 board.

Some magazines distributed 7 " 33⅓ rpm flexidisc records, a variant of regular vinyl records which could be played on a standard record player.

As all other Mesoamerican cultures, the Aztecs played a variant of the Mesoamerican ballgame, named tlachtli or ollamaliztli in Nahuatl.

There was also a variant of Dr. Frankenstein, the mad surgeon Dr. Gogol ( played by Peter Lorre ), who transplanted hands that were reanimated with malevolent temperaments, in the film Mad Love.

In Poland, grzane wino (" heated wine ") is very similar to the Czech variant, especially in the southern regions.

While the majority of the radical left voted for the Greater German variant, accepting the possibility, as formulated by Carl Vogt of a " holy war for western culture against the barbarism of the East ", i. e., against Poland and Hungary, whereas the liberal centre supported a more pragmatic stance.

A variant of the QWERTZ keyboard has been used in Poland, but QWERTY keyboards have been dominant since the early 1990s.

A variant of participant observation is observing participation, described by Marek M. Kaminski, who explored prison subculture as a political prisoner in communist Poland in 1985.

Ptolemy also provided Dacian toponyms in the Upper Vistula ( Polish: Wisla ) river basin in Poland: Susudava and Setidava ( with a manuscript variant Getidava ).

A better variant of this theory holds that the name originates from the period when the territory was within the Trakai Voivodeship of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, along the borderline with the Mazovia province, primarily a fief of the Poland of the Piasts and later on part of the Kingdom of Poland of the Jagiellons.

A variant of the machine was later sold in Poland under the name Unipolbrit Komputer 2086.

Gołdap ( or variant Goldapp ; ) is a town and the seat of Gołdap County in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in Poland.

Włodawa ( variant: Wlodowa ;, Володава ) is a town in eastern Poland on the Bug River, close to the borders with Belarus and Ukraine.

It was the first Fiat model to be solely manufactured in the FSM plant in Tychy, Poland, which had been sold to Fiat by the Polish state, and where production of the Polish variant of the Fiat 126, the Polski Fiat 126p, was still running.

In Poland, the local variant of the pastry is called kremówka, or napoleonka.

Cuccìa may owe its origins to Sicily's Byzantine period ( 535-965 AD ) since a variant of cuccìa, koliva, is also prepared in the Balkans ; but, the most likely candidate for its origin may be its most similar counterpart, kutia, ( pronounced kùtcha ) an identical dish served throughout the Ukraine, Russia, and Poland.

Historically the variants of Welsh and English Romani, constituted the same variant of Romani, share characteristics and are historically closely related to dialects spoken in France, Germany ( Sinti ), Scandinavia, Spain, Poland, North Russia and the Baltic states.

An alternate variant allows hops over any symmetrical arrangement, including pairs of pieces, pieces separated by empty positions, and so on.

GM2 is the basis of the instrument selection mechanism in Scalable Polyphony MIDI ( SP-MIDI ), a MIDI variant for low power devices that allows the device's polyphony to scale according to its processing power.

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.

The SNOBOL4 variant of the language supports a number of built-in data types, such as integers and limited precision real numbers, strings, patterns, arrays, and tables ( associative arrays ), and also allows the programmer to define additional data types and new functions.

( A relatively uncommon variant allows " no shift ", say N, as a third element of the latter set.

This variant also allows stoker and captain cranks to freewheel ( coast ) independently.

A common variant in non-sanctioned play allows the defenders to announce “ Kontra !” just before the first trick is played.

Five-pin bowling allows for more strategy in its play than the ten-pin variant, because of the differing point values for each pin.

* Bromoil: This is a variant on the oil print process that allows a print to be enlarged.

The birds have a specialized variant of the hemoglobin alpha < sup > D </ sup > subunit ; this protein has a high affinity for oxygen, which allows the species to take up oxygen efficiently despite the low partial pressure in the upper troposphere.

The reversible-jump method is a variant of Metropolis – Hastings that allows proposals that change the dimensionality of the space.

A variant of the Cylindric method of layout, it allows for continuous climbing and twisting rails and easings.

In 1998, The Kingdom reintroduced a variant of the old Multiverse concept called Hypertime which essentially allows for alternate versions of characters and worlds again.

The 1998 eGames variant Blobs uses the Zillions Development Engine and allows for choosing different boards with obstacles.

When Solow and Stiglitz sought to make the production function more realistic by adding in natural resources, they did it in a manner that economist Georgescu-Roegen criticized as a " conjuring trick " that failed to address the laws of thermodynamics, since their variant allows capital and labour to be infinitely substituted for natural resources.

* Another variant allows the players to play any number and rank of cards, with the previous person's played cards having no effect on the next player's choice of cards to play.

Yet another variant allows a convertible to count for two punches.

One variant, a " Darwinian poetry " site, allows users to compare two samples of entirely computer-generated poetry using a Condorcet method.

Like the desktop variant it's based upon, the A3000T has a CPU FAST slot which allows for processor upgrades.

Because of this, the same amount of film footage will give 33 % more shooting time, saving money on film stock ; the camera will run more quietly because less film is moved through the camera per frame ; and the Super 35 variant allows for a larger negative area, which can help compensate for increased grain when using higher-speed film stocks.

The S10-VT variant has a two-position variable pitch propeller and a turbocharger on the engine, which allows the aircraft to cruise at altitudes up to 30, 000 feet ( 9, 000 m ).

Weinreich applies the identity variant in a framework which also allows for the transition from one to another by way of biographical experiences and resolution of conflicted identifications situated in various contexts – for example, an adolescent going through family break-up may be in one state, whereas later in a stable marriage with a secure professional role may be in another.

" Pitchers poison " is a variant that allows fielders to throw the ball to the pitcher standing on the mound instead of throwing it to a first basemen.

An expert variant of this method ( ZZ-a ) allows the last layer to be completed in a single step with an average of just over 12 moves and knowledge of 177 algorithms.