Two or more players can compete in this variant, but if there are more than six players, not everyone will get a fair turn.

This paper also defined a variant called NMAC that is rarely if ever used.

In a more complicated variant, identical cards cancel each other, leading to the possibility ( if the number of players is even ) of an entire trick being canceled out.

( In the Oy Vey variant, if many players are playing, often a successful bid is worth the 10-point threshold plus the square of the bid.

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.

SFMT, SIMD-oriented Fast Mersenne Twister, a variant of Mersenne Twister, is faster even if it's not compiled with SIMD support.

Two new Queen Elizabeth class carriers able to operate the F-35B short take-off and landing variant of the US Lockheed Martin Lightning II aircraft are under construction ; it is not certain if both carriers will enter service or the number of aircraft that will be purchased.

A virus of the species Zaire ebolavirus is an Ebola virus if it has the properties of Zaire ebolaviruses and if its genome diverges from that of the prototype Zaire ebolavirus, Ebola virus variant Mayinga ( EBOV / May ), by ≤ 10 % at the nucleotide level.

On Match Game PM ( or on the syndicated daytime show if time was running short ), a time-saving variant of the tie-breaker was used that reversed the game play.

Still others require players to not go over 7 or 27 to win the respective halves of the pot ; in this variant, if everyone is over 7, the player closest to 27 without going over wins the whole pot.

There is some ambiguity of if the name actually derived from William Byrne since there were people with the surname " Burns " living in the area ( a Scottish variant ).

A variant of this rule is hitting the ball inside or outside house ( s ) if playing outside or inside respectively.

Another variant requires that if a player's last card is an Eight, he must reveal this to the other players.

The initial 100-megaton design plans for the Soviet Tsar Bomba ( the device actually tested was a 50 % scaled-down version ) included the possibility of a salted variant which, if detonated, could have rendered the Northern Hemisphere nearly uninhabitable.

Amongst the typical species of the Brocken that are rarely if ever found elsewhere in North Germany and which occur above about are the variant of the Alpine Pasqueflower known as the Brocken flower or Brocken anemone ( Pulsatilla alpina subsp.

) if the material spells the author in a peculiar variant.

Most ARGs do not have any fixed rules — players discover the rules and the boundaries of the game through trial and error — and do not require players to assume fictional identities or roleplay beyond feigning belief in the reality of the characters they interact with ( even if games where players play ' themselves ' are a long standing variant on the genre ).< ref >

However, it is never made explicitly clear how many screens are monitored at once, or what the precise criteria ( if any ) for monitoring a given screen are ( although we do see that during an exercise program that Winston takes part in every morning, the instructor can see him, meaning telescreens are possibly a variant of videophones ); Telescreens do not have night vision technology, thus, they cannot surveil in the dark ; this is compensated by the fact that telescreens are incredibly sensitive, and can pick up a heartbeat.

Greek historiography provides a famous variant: when the Lydian king Croesus asked the Delphic Oracle if he should invade Persia, the response came that if he did, he would destroy a great kingdom.

A variant developed in which if the boy said " padiddle " first, he kissed the girl, but if the girl said " padiddle " first, she could either kiss or slap the boy.

However, if the rules of circe chess are applied, the number of required variations can be reduced to two ( circe is a chess variant in which captured pieces, rather than being removed from the board, are returned to their home squares ).

; Front pin first: In this variant of the game, pins are only counted if the front pin is knocked over first.

On the other hand, oaf is simply a variant of the word elf, presumably originally referring to a changeling or to someone stupefied by elvish enchantment.

In one variant of 419 fraud, an alleged hitman writes to someone explaining that he has been targeted to kill them.

Along these lines, the name would mean ‘( the god ) who sings to ( something / someone )’ or ‘( the god ) who binds ( something / someone ) to ( something / someone ).’ However, it is also possible to see the name as an extended form of a variant form of the Proto-Celtic word * abon-‘ river ,’ derived from the Proto-Indo-European root * ab -, * h₂eb-‘ water, river ’.

It has been proposed that an inherited variant of COMT is one of the genetic factors that may predispose someone to developing schizophrenia later in life, naturally or due to adolescent-onset cannabis use.

Uranian is a 19th century term that referred to a person of a third sex — originally, someone with " a female psyche in a male body " who is sexually attracted to men, and later extended to cover homosexual gender variant females, and a number of other sexual types.

The Welsh name is a variant of the surname Gough, and is derived from a nickname for someone with red hair.

Hablar hasta por el culo ( To talk out of the ass )— a local, impolite variant of the well-known frase Hablar hasta por los codos ( to talk through the elbows )— refers to someone who talks a lot ; this variant is used to refer to a person in a negative way ( as in " He / she won't shut up ") while Hablar hasta por los codos does not necessarily imply annoyance.

So someone from Szolnok may spell his family name " Szolnoky " instead of " Szolnoki ", but only if the chosen Y variant of the family name is not a protected name of a historically documented noble family.

A person holding a phone conversation was talking to someone ( unseen ) named " Jim " and was referring to him by every variant of " Jim " that he could think of (" Jimbo ," " Jimmy boy ," " Jimmy crack corn ...").

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.

Although each variant of bridge has its own particular scheme for awarding and accumulating points, all are based upon whether or not the contract for each deal was made or defeated and by how many tricks.

The United States federal government ( as opposed to the states ) has a variant on a common law system.

As a result, the focus on more highly trained soldiers equipped with, for example, 7. 62 mm NATO firing rifles, such as the U. S. Marine Corps Designated Marksman Rifle variant of the M14, has increased somewhat.

Researchers have also identified another genetic variant, HLA-A * 3101 which has been shown to be a strong predictor of both mild and severe adverse reactions to carbamazepine among Japanese and Europeans.

A variant of this game is known in German speaking countries as Bierkastenlauf ( beer crate running ): A team of two is carrying a crate of beer along a route of several kilometers and has to consume all bottles prior to crossing the finish line.

The widespread adoption of digital video has also drastically reduced the bandwidth needed for a high-definition video signal ( with HDV and AVCHD, as well as several commercial variants such as DVCPRO-HD, all using less bandwidth than a standard definition analog signal ) and tapeless camcorders based on flash memory and often a variant of MPEG-4.

For example, the population which is at risk of the severe debilitating disease kuru has significant over-representation of an immune variant of the prion protein gene G127V versus non-immune alleles.

Herbert G. Winful argues that the train analogy is a variant of the " reshaping argument " for superluminal tunneling velocities, but he goes on to say that this argument is not actually supported by experiment or simulations, which actually show that the transmitted pulse has the same length and shape as the incident pulse.

The English term has cognates in the other Germanic languages: Old Saxon heƀan " sky, heaven ", Middle Low German heven " sky ", Old Icelandic himinn " sky, heaven ", Gothic himins ; and those with a variant final-l: Old Frisian himel, himul " sky, heaven ", Old Saxon / Old High German himil, Dutch hemel, and modern German Himmel.

Oriental Hebrew was chosen as the representative variant by the Academy of the Hebrew Language, but has declined in popularity.

The inward variant has also been called a hangetsu geri ( Crescent moon kick ) in karate and is employed to " wipe " an opponents hand off of one's wrist.

This spelling variant has been copied often and may be found frequently.

For example, the VAZ-21103 variant has the 1. 5 L 16V engine, while the VAZ-21104 uses the latest 1. 6 L 16V fuel injection engine.

) Ford has also lent Mazda some of its capacity when needed: the Mazda 121 sold in Europe and South Africa was, for a time, a variant of the Ford Fiesta built in plants in Europe and South Africa.

Kaplan's naturalistic theology has been seen as a variant of John Dewey's philosophy.

David Armstrong, perhaps the most prominent contemporary realist, argues that such a trope-based variant of nominalism has promise, but holds that it is unable to account for the laws of nature in the way his theory of universals can.

Recently, the Swr1 remodeling enzyme has been shown to introduce the variant histone H2A. Z into nucleosomes.

Evidence of a written account in Occitan from Pamplona revolving around the burning of borough San Nicolas has reached up to our days ( 1258 ), while the History of the War of Navarre by Guilhem Anelier ( 1276 ) albeit written in Pamplona shows a linguistic variant from Toulouse.

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.

A manuscript variant of a name in Pliny has abetted the Iceland theory: Nerigon instead of Berrice, which sounds like Norway.

The Contingent vote is a variant of instant-runoff voting that has been used in the past in Queensland, in Australia.

Additionally, a virus known as the Human Meta-Human Vampiric Virus ( HMHVV ), with many variant strains, has been known to cause further change, far beyond that of traditional vampirism, frequently resulting in fierce abominations that are no longer human and sometimes no longer even sentient: bandersnatches, banshees, dzoo-noo-quas, goblins, ghouls, nosferatus, vampires, wendigos, wild fomorians, and others.

A variant of the Schrödinger's Cat experiment, known as the quantum suicide machine, has been proposed by cosmologist Max Tegmark.

Matthew 16: 12 – It has textual variant της ζυμης των αρτων των Φαρισαιων και Σαδδουκαιων ( leaven of bread of the Pharisees and Sadducees ) supported only by Codex Corbeiensis I and Curetonian Gospels.