A two-run homer by Norm Siebern and a solo blast by Bill Tuttle tied the game, and single runs in the eighth and ninth gave the Athletics their fifth victory in eight starts.

At the end of the game there is a " Pyramid " which starts with a three-letter word.

A new card game starts in a small way, either as someone's invention, or as a modification of an existing game.

The user can also start a game directly from the client: this automatically starts a Freeciv server, connects to it and starts the game.

* 1972 – The first game of the World Chess Championship 1972 between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky starts.

* 1894 – The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.

* The computer game Elite 2 starts on Mars in one scenario.

The game starts with any number of players and a number of chairs one fewer than the number of players ; the chairs are arranged in a circle ( or other closed figure if space is constrained ; a double line is sometimes used ) facing outward, with the people standing in a circle just outside of that.

In a game that starts with heaps of three, four, and five, the first player will win with optimal play, whether the misère or normal play convention is followed.

* In the Get Fred variation, the game starts with a hand size that is the largest possible number of cards ( but no greater than 9 ), reducing down to 1 card.

If each player in a tournament starts with 5, 000 in chips and after 4 hours, the big blind is 10, 000 ( with a small blind of 5, 000 ), it will be very difficult for a player with only 15, 000 in chips to stay in the game.

At the start of the game the football is placed on the central point, unless one player gives the other a handicap, in which case the ball starts nearer one player's goal.

The Astros were shut out nine times in Clemens ' 32 starts, and failed to score in a 10th until after Clemens was out of the game.

Then, we can show that if the game starts with n spots, it will end in no more than 3n − 1 moves and no fewer than 2n moves.

In the following proofs, we suppose that a game starts with n spots and lasts for exactly m moves.

Each spot starts with three lives and each move reduces the total number of lives in the game by one ( two lives are lost at the ends of the line, but the new spot has one life ).

In one variation, the game starts with no blocks on the field.

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

The choice to be server or receiver in the first game and the choice of ends is decided by a toss before the warm-up starts.

The game won the Golden Joystick Award for Strategy Game of the Year in 1983 and was responsible for popularizing the phrase, " Thorin sits down and starts singing about gold.

Unlike in the United States, a primetime newscast in the 10: 00 p. m. timeslot is uncommon ( Global owned-and-operated stations in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, CKND-DT, CFSK-DT and CFRE-DT, are the only television stations in the country carrying a primetime newscast ); conversely, pre-5 a. m. local newscasts are also uncommon in Canada, Hamilton, Ontario independent station CHCH-DT, whose weekdaily programming consists largely of local news, is currently the only station in the country that starts its weekday morning newscasts before 5: 30 a. m. ( the station's morning news block begins at 4 a. m. on weekdays ).

* 1821 – Alexander Ypsilantis starts the Greek War of Independence in Iași, Wallachia, modern-day Romania.

* 1904 – Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.

* 1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts.

* 1936 – Spanish Civil War: An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently-elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the civil war.

* 1936 – Army uprising in Spanish Morocco starts Spanish Civil War.

* 1941 – World War II: Yugoslav royal colonel Dragoljub Mihailović starts fighting with German occupation troops, beginning the Serbian resistance.

* 1864 – American Civil War: A group of Confederate operatives calling themselves the Confederate Army of Manhattan starts fires in more than 20 locations in an unsuccessful attempt to burn down New York City.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman burns Atlanta, Georgia and starts Sherman's March to the Sea.

* 1739 – War of Jenkins ' Ear starts: British Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, reluctantly declares war on Spain.

The simulation causes a national nuclear missile scare and nearly starts World War III.

** The Second Congo War starts in 1998 in central Africa and includes 50 different cultures and 7 different nations.

* May 26 – American Civil War – The Siege of Vicksburg starts.

* February 8 – A Japanese surprise attack on Port Arthur ( Lushun ) starts the Russo-Japanese War.

* August 27 – The shortest war in recorded history, the Anglo-Zanzibar War, starts at 9 in the morning and lasts for 45 minutes of shelling.

* August 16 – Vietnam War: The House Un-American Activities Committee starts investigating Americans who have aided the Viet Cong, with the intent to make these activities illegal.

* May 23 – In Leipzig the Leipzig War Crimes Trial starts.

* January 8 – Vietnam War: Operation Cedar Falls starts.

* March 8 – American Civil War: The iron-clad CSS Virginia ( formerly USS Merrimack ) is launched at Hampton Roads, Virginia ; the Battle of Hampton Roads starts the same day.

* November 15 – American Civil War – Sherman's March to the Sea begins: Union General Sherman burns Atlanta and starts to move south, causing extensive devastation to crops and mills and living off the land.

* November 25 – American Civil War: A group of Confederate operatives calling themselves the Confederate Army of Manhattan starts fires in more than 20 locations in an unsuccessful attempt to burn down New York City.

* Thirty Years ' War: French intervention starts.

* October 4 – October 5 – Crimean War: The Ottoman Empire starts war with Russia.

* April – The Nepalese invasion of Tibet starts the Nepalese-Tibetan War ( 1855-1856 ).

* Thirty Years ' War: Swedish intervention starts.