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 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 of Thurber's curative methods involve strong potions of mixed metaphor, malapropism, and gobbledygook and are recommended for use only in extreme cases.

Some methods of fertility awareness involve estimating a woman's periods of fertility and infertility by observing changes in her body.

Some of the earliest involve the binary star 70 Ophiuchi.

Some of the most common involve the use of focused ultrasound ( FUS or HIFU ), microwave heating, induction heating, magnetic hyperthermia, and direct application of heat through the use of heated saline pumped through catheters.

Some partner dances such as Lindy Hop involve an open position which encourages each partner to improvise alone, yet others, such as Argentine Tango may involve a " close embrace " or closed position which require Followers to follow the Lead more comprehensively.

Some disorders may be very limited in their functional effects, while others may involve substantial disability and support needs.

Some players apply methods that are sometimes called numerological in games which involve numbers but no skill, such as bingo, roulette, keno, or lotteries.

Some neurosurgical procedures involve the use of MRI and functional MRI intraoperatively.

Some Scholars suggest that the command to abstain from leavened food or yeast suggests that sacrifices offered to God involve the offering of objects in " their least altered state ", that would be nearest to the way in which they were initially made by God.

* Some chemical reactions in paint involve the orientation of the paint molecules.

Some important rules involve relevance, privilege, witnesses, opinions, expert testimony, hearsay, authenticity, identification and rules of physical evidence.

Some RISC processors such as the PowerPC have instruction sets as large as, say, the CISC IBM System / 370 ; and conversely, the DEC PDP-8 — clearly a CISC CPU because many of its instructions involve multiple memory accesses — has only 8 basic instructions, plus a few extended instructions.

Some of them may involve trade-offs that are not acceptable to the organization or person making the risk management decisions.

Some of the several proposed mechanisms of teratogenecity involve a different biological function for the ( R )- and the ( S )- thalidomide enantiomers.

Some sex workers are paid to engage in sexually explicit behavior which involve varying degrees of physical contact with clients ( prostitutes, escorts, some but not all professional dominants ); pornography models and actors engage in sexually explicit behavior which are filmed or photographed.

Some, on the other hand, may be called " deep ": their proofs may be long and difficult, involve areas of mathematics superficially distinct from the statement of the theorem itself, or show surprising connections between disparate areas of mathematics.

Some Condorcet methods involve the basic procedure described below, coupled with a Condorcet completion method — a method used to find a winner when there is no Condorcet winner.

Some other specialties involve some forms of surgical intervention, especially gynaecology.

Some of the more commonly seen variants involve employment scams, lottery scams, online sales and rentals, and romance scams.

Some 419 scams involve even more serious crimes, such as kidnapping or murder.

Some applications involve configurations more than a simple magnetic dipole ; for example, quadrupole and sextupole magnets are used to focus particle beams.

Some ground irrigation techniques involve the digging of channels on the land for the water to flow, whereas the use of center-pivot irrigation can reduce the amount of soil tillage that occurs and helps to reduce water runoff and soil erosion that can occur with ground irrigation.

Some of Napier's memorable roles include Murdock, the intelligence officer commanding Rambo in Rambo: First Blood Part II ( 1985 ) and Tucker McElroy, lead singer and driver of the Winnebago for " The Good Ol ' Boys " in The Blues Brothers ( 1980 ).

Some information was passed to Beatty ( commanding the battlecruisers ), Tyrwhitt ( Harwich destroyers ) and Keyes ( submarines ), but Jellicoe was unhappy with the arrangement.

) Some months later, Lake's commanding officer Sir Alexander Cochrane discovered what had happened and immediately ordered Lake to retrieve Jeffery.

Some of the buildings were used as apartment houses, and an orphanage was located in the former commanding officer ’ s quarters.

Some belts also require the approval of the commanding officer before being awarded.

Some variants require the authorization of three senior officers ( Star Trek III: The Search For Spock, Star Trek: First Contact ), others just the commanding and executive officers ( Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes " 11001001 " and " Where Silence Has Lease ", Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode " The Adversary ").

Some months later, Lake's commanding officer, Sir Alexander Cochrane, discovered what had happened and immediately ordered Lake to retrieve Jeffrey.