Games can be based on pure strategy, chance ( e. g. rolling dice ) or a mixture of the two, and usually have a goal which a player aims to achieve.

Games can be decided when:

Games played with curved sticks and a ball can be found in the histories of many cultures.

The madison is a feature of six-day races, but it can also be a separate race, as in the Olympic Games.

While no official recording of Vangelis ' composition for the 2000 Sydney Games exists, the music can be heard accompanying the presentation of the emblem of the 2004 Athens Games.

Ski jumping is predominantly a winter sport, performed on snow, and is part of the Winter Olympic Games, but can also be performed in summer on artificial surfaces – porcelain or frost rail track on the inrun, plastic on the landing hill.

Games can be free-for-all or team ordeals, and can be limited by time or number of kills, or they can have no limit whatsoever.

The Tailteann Games, held near modern Telltown in Ireland, was one of the first multi-sport festivals to be recorded, and its history can be traced back to 1829 BC.

Games recorded using the Portable Game Notation ( PGN ) can record the initial position using Forsyth – Edwards Notation ( FEN ), as the value of the " FEN " tag.

An editor can, for example at the end of the day in the Olympic Games, ask to retrieve all the clips related to the players who received a gold medal.

In the 1956 Melbourne Games in Australia, local veterinary student Barry Larkin protested against the relay by tricking onlookers by carrying a fake flame, consisting of a pair of underpants set on fire in a plum pudding can, attached to a chair leg.

Games can, however, be an excellent tool for improving square dance skills, especially in class or club situations, and often have the function of allowing dancers who otherwise cannot form a complete square to participate in a dance.

Air guns can be highly accurate and are used in target shooting events at the Olympic Games, governed by the International Shooting Sport Federation ( ISSF ), where they are shot at a range of 10m or 32. 8 feet.

Games can be played on very hard floors in indoor fields, or outdoor fields of varying sizes.

Games can last for several days, and the winning team receives a prize, not necessarily money, as a reward for their win.

Outside of stage lighting the job of a Lighting Designer can be much more diverse and they can be found working on rock and pop tours, corporate launches, art installation and on massive celebration spectaculars, for example the Olympic Games opening and closing ceremonies.

Games such as Dance Dance Revolution can trace the lineage of their control mechanisms back to the Power Pad ( see dance pad ).

Ian Livingstone, Chair of Skillset's Computer Games Skills Council and Life President at Eidos, commented that " accreditation is a rigorous process, but De Montfort's course shows what standards can be achieved with a curriculum designed with games industry input from day one.

* Since the 1999 edition, only teams not yet qualified for the following Olympic Games can compete in the World Cup.

Games written in TADS are compiled to a platform-independent format that can be played on any computer for which a suitable virtual machine ( VM ) exists.

Also in 356 Alexander was born, and Philip's race horse won in the Olympic Games.

Also in 1992, she travelled to her first Olympic Games, reaching the second round of her new speciality event ; the 400 metres.

Also in her capacity as vicereine, in 1986 Sauvé accepted on behalf of the " People of Canada " the Nansen Medal, and, two years later, opened the XV Olympic Winter Games in Calgary, Alberta.

Also, the original version was selected as one of five for the exhibition The Art of Video Games in the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 2011.

Also known as Christmas Games, are from December 26 through January 1.

Also that year, the game ranked 16th in Game Informers list of the " Top 100 Games of All Time ".

Also in 2002, ESPN announced the establishment of the X Games Global Championship.

Also whilst under the Third Reich, Mönchengladbach's first ever international player was capped ; Heinz Ditgens playing in a 9 – 0 win over Luxembourg for Germany in the 1936 Olympic Games.

Also, Rob was on the " West " team that won the 2006 Summer X Games surfing competition, called " The Game ," held each year in Mexico.

Also in 2005, Mega Man 2 was released alongside other Capcom games as part of a " Plug It In & Play TV Games " peripheral by Jakks Pacific.

Also founder of Women in Games International.

Also in 2007, Flix began showing movies from the year 2000 ; those titles include Reindeer Games and Pitch Black.

Also during his tenure the BBC covered an increasing number of ambitious sporting events, including organising extensive coverage as host broadcaster of the 1966 World Cup and showing coverage live by satellite from Mexico of both the 1968 Olympic Games and 1970 World Cup.

Also benefiting from the investment are Multimedia Design, Games Art and Digital Arts Practice students who now have the use of two computer suites with 40 iMacs and 10 high-end PC graphic workstations, all utilising the latest design and modelling software such as Adobe Master Suite, 3D Studio Max 2009 and Pixologic Zbrush 3. 1.

Also, CAF is responsible for organisation of the football events during the Pan African Games.

* Julian Austin-Represented Canada in World Cup of Hockey 1978, Pan American Games 79 & 83 Silver & Gold Medal Also a member of the 1984 Olympic Team ( Retired )

Also not to be confused with Stainless Games, developers of Carmageddon.

Also, the 1974 World Championship and the 1979 Pan American Games were held in San Juan, promoting local enthusiasm for international basketball and Puerto Rico's presence in it.

Also a winner at the inaugural British Empire Games, Hampson was one of the world's leading runners in the 800 m and half-mile event.

Also under her administration, Ohio's first state-of-the-art Emergency Operations Center was built, and in 2004, Cleveland became the first city in the country to host the International Children's Games.

Also, these games saw the first unique Games trademark logo: an emblem showing the Games emblem intertwined with a St. Andrews Cross and a thistle.

Also in 2000, Kuwait took part at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.

Also in the early 80s, Columbia Games released the Hârn Regional Module, which included a massive, full-colour map that attracted many reluctant players to the system.