There are several variations of croquet currently played, differing in the scoring systems, order of shots, and layout ( particularly in social games where play must be adapted to smaller-than-standard playing courts ).

As a social experience, individuals can interact, exchange ideas, share information, provide social support, conduct business, direct actions, create artistic media, play games, engage in political discussion, and so on, using this global network.

The federal Brazilian judge Carlos Alberto Simões de Tomaz, of the Minas Gerais judiciary section, ordered the ban in October 2007 because, according to him, the games " bring imminent stimulus to the subversion of the social order, attempting against the democratic and rightful state and against the public safety ".

There are many forms of entertainment, including cinema, theatre, sports, games and social dance.

This rule is useful for low-stakes social games where many players will stay for the draw, and will help avoid depletion of the deck.

While many titles ( especially the strategically heavier ones ) are enthusiastically played by gamers as a hobby, German-style games are, for the most part, well suited to social play.

In keeping with this social function, various characteristics of the games tend to support that aspect well, and these have become quite common across the genre.

He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing textbooks and rules for war games.

The pages are filled with many social classes and ethnicities in various stages of solving the challenges presented by games.

In multiplayer online games, a MUSH ( a backronymed pun on MUD most often expanded as Multi-User Shared Hallucination, though Multi-User Shared Hack, Habitat, and Holodeck are also observed ) is a text-based online social medium to which multiple users are connected at the same time.

MUSHes are often used for online social intercourse and role-playing games, although the first forms of MUSH do not appear to be coded specifically to implement gaming activity.

The differences between such Internet micronations, other kinds of social networking groups, and role playing games are often hard to define.

Like many popular social card games, Oh Hell has many local variants, in both rules and names.

Increasingly, this format is being adopted by social and mobile games, often described using the term " asynchronous multiplayer.

:: A social gathering during which the guests play party games.

Some authors divide digital role-playing games into two intertwined groups: single player games using RPG-style mechanics, and multiplayer games incorporating social interaction.

Massively multi-player online role-playing games ( MMORPGs ) combine the large-scale social interaction and persistent world of MUDs with graphic interfaces.

As Premier and Treasurer, Askin heavily involved himself in the business of Government, while also maintaining a range of social agendas and regular outings to the racetrack or Rugby League games.

A whist drive is a social event, popular in Britain, at which progressive games of whist are played.

The CISS maintains separate games for deaf athletes based on their numbers, their special communication needs on the sports field, and the social interaction that is a vital part of sports.

Some social clubs are organized around competitive games, such as chess and bridge.

This activity is performed through the verbal impersonation of the characters by the players, while also employing a variety of social and other useful cognitive skills, such as logic, basic mathematics and imagination.

Broken consorts combined a mixture of different instruments — a small band, essentially — usually comprising a gathering of social amateurs and typically including such instruments as a bass viol, a lute or orpharion ( a wire-strung lute, metal-fretted, flat-backed, and festoon-shaped ), a cittern, a treble viol ( or violin, as time progressed ), sometimes an early keyboard instrument ( virginal, spinet, or harpsichord ), and whatever other instruments or players ( or singers ) might be available at the moment.

He was promoted to Companion of the Order of Canada in 2009 " for his continued contributions to the world of hockey, notably as one of the best players of all time, as well as for his social engagement as a philanthropist, volunteer and role model for countless young people ".

These worlds come complete with their own economies and social organization as directed by the players as a whole.

In December 2006, Fanning developed Rupture, a social networking tool designed to handle the task of publishing gamers ' individual profiles to a communal space and facilitating communication between World of Warcraft players.

The Goren point-count system became so popular that nearly all bridge players in the United States, social and tournament players alike, used it.

There is no longer a universally recognized standard for social / rubber bridge players.

In the 1970s, black, heavier and " ethnic " models predominated the runways but social changes since that time have made the power players in the fashion industry flee suggestions of " otherness ".

; Game categories: This is a classification scheme proposed by Nicols, which classifies games according to three major categories: the game's physical requirements ( i. e. what the game requires in addition to the players — equipment, size and nature of playing field, and so forth ), the structure of the game ( i. e. number of players, groupings of players, strategies, and so forth ), and the game's personal requirements ( i. e. what the game requires of the player — motor skills, fitness levels, numeracy, social skills, and so forth ).

: German Argentines include the late president Néstor Kirchner, top models Nicole Neumann, Milagros Schmoll, basketball player Wálter Herrmann, businessman Horst Paulmann, social leader Juan Carlos Blumberg beermakers Otto Bemberg and Otto Schneider, and football players Gabriel Heinze, Federico Lussenhoff, Gabriel Schurrer, Rene Houseman, among many others.

Partially designed as a social and economic experiment, the game had to account for the widespread player interaction as well as deal with the long history of players feeling as if they were the center of attention, as had been the case in single-player games.

* A card of rank equal to the number of players in the game ( generally 3-6 ) is a " social ", and when played all players must drink twice.

Apart from the tournament, it is a big social event, with many parties often held around the area for all involved, spectators and players.

Situated also at the Barn Meadow site, ( School Lane, Old Amersham ) is the 61 Judo Club, a family-oriented, successful and competitive Judo Club catering for serious and social players alike.

In contrast, the social identity approach ( rooted in Social Identity Theory and Self-categorization Theory ) suggests that a group starts when a collection of individuals perceive that they share some social category (‘ smokers ’, ‘ nurses ,’ ‘ students ,’ ‘ hockey players ’), and that interpersonal attraction only secondarily enhances the connection between individuals.

In its first championship in League A – in 1923, Vasco became champion with a team formed by whites, blacks and " mulattos " players of different social classes.

While it is generally played with two teams of six on-field players, some social competitions allow different number of players per team on the field.

-- liberal considers that the need for a national economy with controls that will assure his conception of social justice is so great that individual and local liberties as well as democratic processes may have to yield before it.

Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which his legitimate aspirations and dignity may be realized ''.

Yet, after Rousseau had given the social contract a new twist with his notion of the General Will, the same philosophy, it may be said, became the idea source of the French Revolution also.

In any event, whether society may have cancer, or merely a virus infection, the `` disease '', we shall find, is political, economical, social, and even medical.

That, however, may also bring the police, if the thinking does not meet with social approval.

It must be granted that the flouting of convention, no matter how well intentioned one may be, is sure to lead to trouble, or at least to the discomfort that goes with social disapproval.

To the extent that our sampling of the orientations of American college students in the years 1950 and 1952 may be representative of our culture -- and still valid in 1959 -- we are disposed to question the summary characterization of the current generation as silent, beat, apathetic, or as a mass of other-directed conformists who are guided solely by social radar without benefit of inner gyroscopes.

There are other countries where, with skillful diplomacy, we may be able by our aid to give encouragement to those groups in government which would like to press forward with economic and social reform measures to promote growth.

Position may not be everything, but in the case of a pool it can certainly contribute difficulties, social and/or physical.

Confused and divided though this tradition may be, it is an important part of the social and cultural heritage of the group, and acts as a means of socialization, particularly for members of the rural community.

Where boundary maintenance describes the boundaries or limits of the group, systemic linkage is defined `` as the process whereby one or more of the elements of at least two social systems is articulated in such a manner that the two systems in some ways and on some occasions may be viewed as a single unit.

But another cause may lie in the experience of so many new postwar faculty members with their own use of education as a means of social advancement.

The notion of philosophy as Queen Bee may fit well with authoritarian modes of political ideology, but it has been noted that the price of such an imperial notion of philosophy is the frustration and flagellation of the social sciences.

Beyond this, philosophy may urge the social sciences forward by asking the type of question that falls outside the present scope of social inquiry, but within its potential domain of relevance.

Until such work is done, there must remain the nagging suspicion that alienation may be little more than an expression of the malaise of the intellectual, who, rejected by and in turn rejecting the larger society, projects his own fear and despair onto the broader social screen.

The lay leadership of the church may be invited to speak on the various phases of church life, service opportunities, the church school, missions, men's work, women's work, youth program, social activities, and finances.

In particular, social sciences often develop statistical descriptions rather than the general laws derived in physics or chemistry, or they may explain individual cases through more general principles, as in many fields of psychology.

In countries of the British Commonwealth, social anthropology has often been institutionally separate from physical anthropology and primatology, which may be connected with departments of biology or zoology ; and from archaeology, which may be connected with departments of Classics, Egyptology, and the like.

Stress on the environment may have been reflected in the social structure, leading to conflict and warfare.

Departures from the expected pattern may occur because of unidentified social or political situations or because of geographic barriers.

Intelligence agencies may use heuristics, inductive and deductive reasoning, social network analysis, dynamic network analysis, link analysis, and brainstorming to sort through problems they face.

These findings may corroborate the evidence for social behaviour in Albertosaurus, although some or all of the above localities may represent temporary or unnatural aggregations.