There are three general categories of casino games: table games, electronic gaming machines, and random number ticket games such as Keno and simulated racing.

However, an examination of the box scores indicate this spike in walks was due to a few games against Saint Louis Browns ' pitchers with horrific control, not a general league tendency.

Slang seems to be commonly sourced, however, from online games, video games and general pop culture.

References to specific kami or the general Shinto idea of kami appear in various areas of popular culture, including anime and manga, role-playing games, and literature.

Originally formulated for two-player zero-sum game theory, covering both the cases where players take alternate moves and those where they make simultaneous moves, it has also been extended to more complex games and to general decision making in the presence of uncertainty.

The more general term machinima, a misspelled portmanteau of machine cinema, arose when the concept spread beyond the Quake series to other games and software.

Most Mancala games share a common general game play.

Although the details differ greatly, this general sequence applies to all games.

In such games, the only real indication that the player has a character ( instead of an omnipresent status ), is from the cutscenes during which the character is being given a mission briefing or debriefing ; the player is usually addressed as " general ", " commander ", or another military rank.

One general characteristic of games that Wittgenstein considers in detail is the way in which they consist in following rules.

Programmers in software development companies may work directly with experts from various fields to create software — either programs designed for specific clients or packaged software for general use — ranging from computer and video games to educational software to programs for desktop publishing and financial planning.

In general, the games were commercial failures.

The 1985 Giants lost 100 games ( the most in franchise history ), and owner Bob Lurie responded by hiring Al Rosen as general manager.

Originally, Traveller had no established setting, and was promoted as a rules system for running general science fiction role-playing games.

" Video gaming would not reach mainstream popularity until the 1970s and 80s, when arcade video games, gaming consoles and home computer games were introduced to the general public.

Although there may be disagreements as to whether a particular game qualifies as a wargame or not, a general consensus exists that all such games must explore and illuminate or simulate some feature or aspect of human behaviour directly bearing on the conduct of war, even if the game subject itself does not concern organized violent conflict or warfare.

The business wargames exists too, but in general they are only role playing games based on market situations.

All of these games were meant to be accessible to the general public, but actual play was made difficult owing to the expense of purchasing an army or navy's worth of miniatures.

The mechanics and language have little in common with board and miniature games, but the general subject matter is popular.

Note that much of history from 1800-1950 is often not reflected well in general parlance as they are overshadowed by the ' big three ', games on other subjects in this era are often referred to by the actual war they deal with.

On the computer he finds a list of games, starting with general strategy games like chess, checkers, backgammon, and poker and then progressing to titles like " Theaterwide Biotoxic ", " Chemical Warfare " and " Global Thermonuclear War ", but cannot proceed further.

The purpose set forth at the beginning of this book was first to introduce the reader to a general background knowledge of the various types and capabilities of the forecasting methods already in use, so that he might then be in a position to evaluate for himself the validity of the rather astonishing empirical correlation that is to follow, and to appraise the forecast that its interpretation suggests for the future of farm prices over the years immediately ahead.

Combinatorics is an example of a field of mathematics which does not, in general, follow the axiomatic method.

However, the law of mass action is valid only for concerted one-step reactions that proceed through a single transition state and is not valid in general because rate equations do not, in general, follow the stoichiometry of the reaction as Guldberg and Waage had proposed ( see, for example, nucleophilic aliphatic substitution by S < sub > N </ sub > 1 or reaction of hydrogen and bromine to form hydrogen bromide ).

When the conservative party was beaten by the opposition party in the general election, it changed its form again to follow the party members ' demand for reforms.

In general, outside of editorial pages as described above, traditional newspapers do not use the term censorware in their reporting, preferring instead to use terms such as content filter, content control, or web filtering ; the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal both appear to follow this practice.

After a general introduction, eighteen lectures follow for the competentes, and the remaining five are addressed to the newly baptized, in preparation for the reception of Holy Communion.

After the general meeting in 1806, Thompson travelled to Rocky Mountain House and prepared for an expedition to follow the Columbia River to the Pacific.

Derrida will prefer to follow the more " fruitful paths ( formalization )" of a general semiotics without falling in what he considered " a hierarchizing teleology " privileging linguistics, and speak of ' mark ' rather than of language, not as something restricted to mankind, but as prelinguistic, as the pure possibility of language, working every where there is a relation to something else.

In general, these rules follow the Vienna Convention and apply in other countries as well.

The Afghan leader did not follow up this triumph by retaking Peshawar, however, but instead contacted Lord Auckland, the new British governor general in British India, for help in dealing with the Sikhs.

His writing was remarkable in its time for its directness ( he frequently uses a strange second-person voice, telling you — the reader — what you are seeing and smelling as you follow a recipe ) and for his general disdain for upper-class elaborate French cuisine.

When a diffusion process does not follow Fick's laws ( which does happen ), we refer to such processes as non-Fickian, in that they are exceptions that " prove " the importance of the general rules that Fick outlined in 1855.

Others prefer to follow common popular usage, arguing that the positive form is confusing and unlikely to become widespread in the general public.

Most sexual orientation specialists follow the general conclusion of Alfred Kinsey regarding the sexual continuum, according to which a minority of humans are exclusively heterosexual or homosexual, and that the majority are bisexual.

The general resurrection and the judgment follow the descent of the New Jerusalem at the end of the millennial kingdom.

In general, the court will follow conclusions made by the TBS-clinic.

Most simply call themselves Jains and follow general traditions rather than specific sectarian practices.

Soldiers follow two six-month periods of tuition in both general and military based subjects prior to taking examinations.

A general rule is that both lead and follow watch each other's back in a dance hall situation.

The radii follow general periodic trends: they decrease across the period due to increase in the effective nuclear charge, which is not offset by the increased number of valence electrons.

Toxic substances not directly of biological origin are also termed poisons and many non-technical and lifestyle journalists follow this usage to refer to toxic substances in general.

In general, many alternative functional forms can appear to follow a power-law form for some extent ( see the Laherrere and Sornette reference below ).

All nations pledged to follow the Hague rules on fair treatment of prisoners of war, and in general the POWs had a much higher survival rate than their peers who were not captured.

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