Bruce Halpenny, a games inventor said when interviewed about his game, “ With crime you deal with every basic human emotion and also have enough elements to combine action with melodrama.

Although many board games have a jargon all their own, there is a generalized terminology to describe concepts applicable to basic game mechanics and attributes common to nearly all board games.

The backhand clear is considered by most players and coaches to be the most difficult basic stroke in the game, since precise technique is needed in order to muster enough power for the shuttlecock to travel the full length of the court.

In its most basic form, bridge is a game played by two competing partnerships, i. e. four people.

Under the rules, the two basic states of play during a game are ball in play and ball out of play.

In EverQuest, players create a character ( also known as an avatar, or colloquially as char or toon ) by selecting one of 16 races in the game, which range from humans ( basic human, Erudite, and barbarian ), elves ( high elves, wood elves, and dark elves ), half-elves, dwarves, gnomes, halflings, trolls, and ogres of fantasy, to cat-people ( Vah Shir ), lizard-people ( Iksar ), frog-people ( Froglok ), and dragon-people ( Drakkin ).

One of the attractions of association football is that a casual game can be played with only minimal equipment – a basic game can be played on almost any open area of reasonable size with just a ball and items to mark the positions of two sets of goalposts.

There have been three Grey Ghost Press editions, the most current being the Fudge 10th Anniversary Edition, which includes several suggested rules systems for common RPG elements and an example basic fantasy " build " of the game.

The basic box includes 80 non-random cards but no polyhedral dice, which are to be purchased separately from local game retailers.

The game session ( or " adventure ") can be metaphorically described as a play, in which the players are the lead actors, and the GM provides the stage, the scenery, the basic plot on which the improvisational script is built, as well as all the bit parts and supporting characters.

* Free-style gomoku is the basic game as described above.

The basic dress of a player is a protective equestrian helmet ( usually of a distinctive color, to be distinguished at the considerable distance from which onlookers are watching the game ), riding boots to just below the knees, white trousers ( often ordinary denim jeans ), and a coloured shirt bearing the number of the player's position.

Feeling the basic game was too boring, Alcorn added features to give the game more appeal.

A problem arose historically which held up progress for twenty years: although we start with the assumption of three basic " simple " actions, the rules of the game say that if we want to calculate the probability amplitude for an electron to get from A to B we must take into account all the possible ways: all possible Feynman diagrams with those end points.

While simple forms of role-playing exist in traditional children's games of make believe, role-playing games add a level of sophistication and persistence to this basic idea with additions such as game facilitators and rules of interaction.

As ROTT uses the same basic game engine, Joe theorized that it should be possible to do this.

A large number of the star systems shown on the map of the Frontier sector in the basic rulebook were unexplored and undetailed, allowing the Gamemaster ( called the " referee " in the game ) to put whatever they wished there.

Adventures printed separately for the game included two more adventures set on Volturnus ( SF-1: Volturnus, Planet of Mystery and SF-2: Starspawn of Volturnus continuing the adventure included in the basic set ), SF-3: Sundown on Starmist, SF-4: Mission to Alcazzar, SF-5: Bugs in the System and SF-6: Dark Side of the Moon.

In the original Precision Club system, forcing and non-forcing Stayman are differentiated in the start: 2 by responder shows only invitational values ( and the continuation is the same as in basic Stayman ), while 2 is forcing to game ( responder bids 2NT without majors ).

** While waiting at a bus stop, Ralph Baer an inventor with Sanders Associates, writes a four-page document which lays out the basic principles for creating a video game to be played on a television: the beginning of a multi billion dollar industry.

The game made its way to England and was sold as Snakes and Ladders, then the basic concept was introduced in the United States as Chutes and Ladders ( an " improved new version of England's famous indoor sport ") by game pioneer Milton Bradley in 1943.

The basic problem involved is that a college setting up a graduate school must have an entirely separate faculty for the advanced degree.

During the summer of 1960, it became the setting for a bitter and basic labor-management struggle.

The basic anchoring consists of determining the location, dropping the anchor, laying out the scope, setting the hook, and assessing where the vessel ends up.

The book originally contained two parts: a sequence of lectures setting forth basic church doctrine, followed by a compilation of important revelations, or " covenants " of the church: thus the name Doctrine and Covenants.

In expanding the basic premise and adding comedic elements, scripter Al Feldstein established the setting as Blytheville, Arkansas.

In the following stories, human contact and basic exploration had taken place sometime in the past ; Mars is a setting rather than a goal.

A basic premise of the setting is that as the world endured the string of state-changing events and conflicts, the political landscape fragmented and reformed.

The most basic control of the sail consists of setting its angle relative to the wind.

The basic set also included a short " bestiary " of creatures native to the world of Volturnus ( the setting for the introductory module included with the basic boxed set ), along with rules for creating new creatures.

This encompassed basic local government functions, ranging from land dealings and management of community centres to road maintenance and garbage collection, as well as setting education programmes and standards in their local schools.

Its basic subject matter and setting — love at the Heian court — are those of the romance, and its cultural assumptions are those of the mid-Heian period, but Murasaki Shikibu's unique genius has made the work for many a powerful statement of human relationships, the impossibility of permanent happiness in love ... and the vital importance, in a world of sorrows, of sensitivity to the feelings of others.

Kenneth Von Gunden's 1990 novel Starspawn takes the same basic premise into a Medieval setting: England in the time of the Third Crusade is secretly invaded by parasites from space who attach themselves to knights and gain control of castles, and whose plot is eventually foiled by a wise and dedicated monk.

High School Musical 2 is currently the most successful DCOM in popularity and awards, setting a cable record for most viewers of a basic cable program, when its August 2007 debut scored 17. 2 million, a record that stood until the December 3, 2007 Monday Night Football matchup between the New England Patriots and Baltimore Ravens on corporate sibling ESPN surpassed it with 17. 5 million viewers ( it still remains the most-watched scripted program in cable television history ).

It performs the basic functions of breaking up platoons into single-vehicle entries and setting an upper limit on the flow rates that enter the freeway.

* The basic setting of the story-a dictatorship of the future with a single leader who addresses the citizens on a two-way television screen-is similar to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Visually, it looked like Super Mario Bros., with the same basic game format but with a completely different level design that delivers a higher difficulty setting.

The basic rule is, " On a sunny day set aperture to and shutter speed to the of the ISO film speed ISO setting for a subject in direct sunlight.

" The degree " explores the history, theory, and basic research methods of positive psychology ", " focuses on such issues as the empirical study of positive emotions, strengths-based character, and healthy institutions ", and mentors the student in using " these aspects of positive psychology in " their " particular professional setting.

In these genres, Machaut retained the basic formes fixes but often utilized creative text setting and cadences.

* A very basic guide to setting up an inventory system.

In addition to Aykroyd's high-concept basic premise, and Ramis ' skill at grounding the fantastic elements with a realistic setting, the film benefits from Bill Murray's semi-improvisational performance as Peter Venkman, the character initially intended for Belushi.

The default mod is Liero 1. 0, also called Classic, which is roughly equal to the basic setting in original Liero.

This means that, compared to elementary geometry, projective geometry has a different setting, projective space, and a selective set of basic geometric concepts.