Some of the late 90s / early 2000s games were under development by other companies at one time, but rights to the game programs and all of the existing code was bought and finished by other developers.

Some board games make use of components in addition to — or instead of — a board and playing pieces.

Some games use CDs, video cassettes, and, more recently, DVDs in accompaniment to the game.

Some games, such as chess, depend almost entirely on player skill.

Some games ( chess being the classic example ) are perfect information games: every player has complete information on the state of the game.

Some games involve commanding multiple game pieces ( or units ), such as chess pieces or Monopoly houses and hotels, that have unique designations and capabilities within the parameters of the game ; in other games, such as Go, all pieces controlled by a player have the same capabilities.

Some games give the player a fifth option, " surrender ".

Some games do not permit the player to increase the bet by amounts other than 100 %.

* Surrender ( only available as first decision of a hand ): Some games offer the option to " surrender ", usually in hole card games and directly after the dealer has checked for blackjack ( but see below for variations ).

Some matching-type games are also shedding-type games ; some variants of Rummy such as Phase 10 and Rummikub, as well as the children's game Old Maid, fall into both categories.

Some card games are designed specifically to be played as drinking games.

Some of these games involve players betting against each other, such as poker, while in others, like blackjack, players wager against the house.

Some of these games, such as Pyramid from Battlestar Galactica, become real card games as the holder of the intellectual property develops and markets a suitable deck and ruleset for the game, while others, such as " Exploding Snap " from the Harry Potter franchise, lack sufficient descriptions of rules, or depend on cards or other hardware that are infeasible or physically impossible.

Some casino games have a skill element, where the player makes decisions ; such games are called " random with a tactical element ".

Some episodes even show them watching Bears games.

Some historians think Kling's absence was significant enough to prevent the Cubs from also winning a third straight title in 1909, as they finished 6 games out of first place.

Some content-control software includes time control functions that empowers parents to set the amount of time that child may spend accessing the Internet or playing games or other computer activities.

Some of the more popular games include Donkey Kong ( the pack-in ), Donkey Kong Jr., Carnival, Lady Bug, Mouse Trap, and Zaxxon.

Some time ago, however, Mr. Khrushchev decided that when bigger bombs were made, the Soviet Union would make them.

Some of Curzon's playing strikes me as finicky, however.

( Some SEATO nations disagreed, however.

Some words are known in both languages, however with different meanings:

Some critics however regarded Christie's plotting abilities as considerably exceeding her literary ones.

Some subfields of R have nontrivial field automorphisms, which however do not extend to all of R ( because they cannot preserve the property of a number having a square root in R ).

Some doctrines, however, do adhere to the Arminian foundation and, while minority views, are highlighted below.

Some folk etymologies argue that the original forms of these symbols indicated their value through the number of angles they contained, however there is no proof of any such origin.

Some municipalities however plant the trees around 21 September because of the planting season.

Some general commonalities exist however, as outlined below:

Some scientific anti-realists argue further, however, and deny that unobservables exist even as non-truth conditioned instruments.

Some authors, however, consider alkaloids a special case of amines.

Some accounts claim that he simply vanished, however he suddenly collapsed.

Some people, however, can continue to lose potassium while on an ACE inhibitor.

Some of the groups include ethnic Russians, however in recent times the growth in interest in the Balalaika by non-ethnic Russians has been considerable.

Some grand unified theories of particle physics also predict that a single proton can decay, changing the baryon number by one ; however, this has not yet been observed under experiment.

Some, however, will possess the hunting instinct to such a degree that they find it impossible not to chase a cat that is moving quickly.

Some of the slide activity itself, however, results from movement on the Hayward Fault.

Some researchers still advocate a handful of alternative cosmologies ; however, cosmologists generally agree that the Big Bang theory best explains observations.

Some, like Grafton Elliot Smith, argued that different groups must somehow have learned from one another, however indirectly ; in other words, they argued that cultural traits spread from one place to another, or " diffused ".

Some theorists, however, have speculated on what they consider suitable pre-conditions, and basic mechanisms that might have been important driving forces.

Some within the cognitive science community, however, consider these to be vital topics, and advocate the importance of investigating them.

Some high-skilled consultants, however, may garner some benefits such as a bonus, sick leave, or food and travel expenses, since they usually charge a high flat-fee for their services, or otherwise garner high hourly wages.

Some strips which are still in affiliation with the original creator are produced by small teams or entire companies, such as Jim Davis ' Garfield, however there is some debate if these strips fall in this category.

Some have suggested, however, that a fear of clowns may stem from early childhood experience, when infants begin to process and make sense of facial features.