* Patolli, a board game originating in Mesoamerica played by the ancient Aztec

The ancient Mayans also played a version of Patolli.

Patolli as depicted in Bernardino de Sahagún's General History of the Things of New Spain.

Patolli () or patole () is one of the oldest games in America.

Patolli is a race / war game with a heavy focus on gambling.

The Aztec game board for Patolli which — because it consists of a collapsed circle without an interior cross — has the distinction of being a cross that is a circle ( topologically ), without being a cross plus circle.

These were differently sized in different countries, for instance, the historical French acre was 4, 221 square metres, whereas in Germany as many variants of " acre " existed as there were German states.

By bringing engine production back to within the company, the promise was that Aston Martin would be able to produce small runs of higher performance variants engines.

However, the name Artemis ( variants Arktemis, Arktemisa ) is most likely related to Greek árktos ‘ bear ’ ( from PIE * h₂ŕ ̥ tḱos ), supported by the bear cult that the goddess had in Attica ( Brauronia ) and the Neolithic remains at the Arkouditessa, as well as the story about Callisto, which was originally about Artemis ( Arcadian epithet kallisto ).

The language and its variants became widespread on microcomputers in the late 1970s and 1980s, when it was typically a standard feature, and often part of the firmware of the machine.

Although there were several competing theories as to the etiology of the Black Death, recent analysis of DNA from victims in northern and southern Europe indicates that the pathogen responsible was the Yersinia pestis bacterium, which causes the Bubonic plague, although these were different, previously unknown ancestral variants of those identified in the 20th century.

Common Lisp was developed to standardize the divergent variants of Lisp ( though mainly the MacLisp variants ) which predated it, thus it is not an implementation but rather a language specification.

His edition of the Roman text, with the variants of the Alexandrian manuscript, the Codex Ephraemi, and the Friderico-Augustanus, was of service when it appeared in 1850, but, being stereotyped, was not greatly improved in subsequent issues.

The replacement of the Roman saddle by variants on the Scythian model, with pommel and cantle, was also a significant factor as was the adoption of stirrups and the concomitant increase in stability of the rider's seat.

While a few short-lived DOS based EDuke projects emerged, it was not until the release of EDuke32, an extended version of Duke3D incorporating variants of both Fowler's Microsoft Windows JFDuke3D code and Saettler's EDuke code, by one of 3D Realms ' forum moderators in late 2004 that EDuke's scripting extensions received community focus.

For example, the Spitfire, one of the few fighters in continuous production throughout the war, was in 1939 powered by a Merlin II, while variants produced in 1945 were equipped with the Griffon 61.

The only minority language with a significant number of speakers ( 5. 4 %) was Polish ( a figure that rises to over 6 % when including Kashubian, Masurian, and other forms classified by the Imperial government as separate languages but today more often considered variants of Polish ).

After 1948, when Himachal Pradesh was established as an administrative unit, the local Takri variants were replaced by Devanagari.

The medieval English language version was " Icolmkill " ( and variants thereof ).

Dejacque " rejected Blanquism, which was based on a division between the ‘ disciples of the great people ’ s Architect ’ and ‘ the people, or vulgar herd ,’ and was equally opposed to all the variants of social republicanism, to the dictatorship of one man and to ‘ the dictatorship of the little prodigies of the proletariat .’ With regard to the last of these, he wrote that: ‘ a dictatorial committee composed of workers is certainly the most conceited and incompetent, and hence the most anti-revolutionary, thing that can be found ...( It is better to have doubtful enemies in power than dubious friends )’.

MUSH software was originally derived from MUDs ; today's two major MUSH variants are descended from TinyMUD, which was fundamentally a social game.

DSM-11 was superseded by VAX / DSM for the VAX / VMS platform, and that was ported to the Alpha in two variants: DSM for OpenVMS, and as DSM for Ultrix.

There was also a small supply of QFP packaged EC variants.

In desktops, the 68060 was used in some variants of the Amiga 4000T produced by Amiga Technologies, and available as a third party upgrade for other Amiga models.

Citroën's Xsara Picasso was a strong seller and was followed up with the C4 Picasso range with 5-and 7-seat variants, a line-up which resulted in Citroën becoming Europe's largest MPV manufacturer.

Before the Civil War, baseball competed for public interest with cricket and regional variants of baseball, notably town ball played in Philadelphia and the Massachusetts Game played in New England.

However, the original Counter-Strike is still available and played by many people via Steam, as the two variants are quite different, and players inevitably prefer one variant over the other.

Modern handball is usually played indoors, but outdoor variants exist in the forms of field handball and Czech handball ( which were more common in the past ) and beach handball ( also called sandball ).

Since it depends only on the basic mechanic of betting in rounds, strip poker can be played with any form of poker ; however, it is usually based on simple variants with few betting rounds, like five card draw.

Significant variants of the game, such as where the starting position differs from standard or the objective is to have the fewest pieces one's color at the end, are sometimes — but rarely — played.

Sheepshead is most commonly played by five players, but variants exist to allow for two to eight players.

Currently, Texas hold ' em, Omaha hold ' em and Seven-card stud and their lowball variants are played.

The difference between these variants is the size of board played on.

The most popular forms are international draughts, played on a 10 × 10 board, followed by English draughts, also called American checkers, played on an 8 × 8 checkerboard, but there are many other variants including several played on a 12 × 12 board.

Tables games are among the oldest known board games, and many variants are played throughout the world.

* Kicker-a single card played with a four-of-a-kind to make it a bomb ( in some variants )

( In a few variants, it is permitted to play cards with an equal value as the last cards played.

A few variants allow a single deuce to be played on top of any other combination, but typically games require the same number of deuces to be played as were originally led.

There are two major variants played online, Losers Chess ( aka w17 ) played on ICC, which actually created the variant because they were unable to implement the free ICSes ' suicide chess rules.

Paintball has spawned popular variants, including woodsball, which is played in the natural environment and spans across a large area.

Another, somewhat later source, The Family Instructions of Master Yan by Yan Zhitui ( 531 – 591 ) states that there were two variants of Liubo, " Greater Bo " ( 大博 ) which was played with six throwing sticks, and " Lesser Bo " ( 小博 ) which was played with two dice:

The majority of Blood Bowl is now played by these rules, though variants do exist due to house rules or the transition to online play.

* The game of Go is played on a grid of 19 × 19 lines ( though variants can be played on grids of other sizes ).