A popular Cardassian board game is Kotra, which, as Garak describes it, favors bold tactical maneuvers over defensive play ; hence Garak's criticism of Nog's attempts to regroup his pieces during a game they played in the episode " Empok Nor ".

When the sides of the grid are equal, the game favors the first player.

The mentality of the sports fan is often such that they will experience a game, or event while living vicariously through players or teams whom the fan favors.

The first variation favors a game with many players, while the second may be best for games where there aren't many players.

Overall, the game favors the more offensive player in the late game and the more defensive player early ( who builds up to summon the Titan or earn these powers ).

This game heavily favors the starting player, who will always win the three-seed to six-seed versions with perfect play.

Players in the game ask Wealhþēow for favors, which are essential for completing quests and winning the game.

The long-range objective of habitat management is to make it fully productive so as to support fish and game populations to contribute to the need for public use and enjoyment.

Asteroids is also the first game to use Atari's " QuadraScan " vector-refresh system ; a full-color version known as " Color-QuadraScan " was later developed for games such as Space Duel and Tempest.

As in the original game, the onscreen objects were tinted blue, and a shield that depleted with use replaced the hyperspace feature.

The 2600 port was the first game to use a bank-switched cartridge, doubling available ROM space.

Military intelligence may explore issues through the use of game theory, Red Teaming, and wargaming.

By 1980, the way the game was played had changed dramatically due to innovative coaching tactics, with the phasing out of many of the game's kicking styles and the increasing use of handball ; whilst presentation was influenced by television.

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

The namesake of the board game, gameboards would seem to be a necessary and sufficient condition of the genre, though card games that do not use a standard deck of cards ( as well as games which use neither cards nor a gameboard ) are often colloquially included.

Most games use a standardized and unchanging board ( chess, Go, and backgammon each have such a board ), but many games use a modular board whose component tiles or cards can assume varying layouts from one session to another, or even while the game is played.

Earned runs are specially denoted because of their use in calculating a pitcher's earned run average – the number of earned runs allowed per 9 innings ( regulation game ) pitched.

In addition, if the situation of the game is such that the steal is of little use ( usually in the late innings when the runner would not change the game's outcome by scoring ), and the catcher does not attempt to throw out the runner, the runner is not credited with a steal, and the base is attributed to defensive indifference.

The main use of the plate appearance statistic is in determining a player's eligibility for leadership in some offensive statistical categories, notably batting average ; currently, a player must have 3. 1 PAs per game scheduled to qualify for the batting title ( for the 162-game schedule, that means 502 PAs ).

Video of a game of backgammon, showing movement around the board, entering from the bar, formation of primes, use of the doubling cube and bearing off

To balance the situation, the Crawford rule requires that when a player first reaches a score one point short of winning, neither player may use the doubling cube for the following game, called the Crawford game.

After the Crawford game, normal use of the doubling cube resumes.

Most of these games however typically use a specially made deck of cards designed specifically for the game ( or variations of it ).

The traditions of roda and Capoeira game were kept, being used to put into use what was learned during training.

* The Tekken game series have two playable characters who use Capoeira fighting style, Christie Monteiro and Eddy Gordo.

Richard Meyer was the first fighting game character to use Capoeira.

There is now some hardware accelerated ray tracing equipment, at least in prototype phase, and some game demos which show use of real-time software or hardware ray tracing.

With the league rules permitting teams to wear their third jersey twice in the regular season and once in the preseason, the Panthers reserve the use of their alternate light blue jersey for a home game when there are one or two games that they don't wear them on the road.

However, in general, the books only feature mental battles when there is some reason for mind-to-mind contact ( for example, Trump contact ) and magic or Trump is involved in all three of the above conflicts, so it is not clear whether Zelazny intended his characters to have such a power ; the combination of Brand's " living trump " powers and his high Psyche ( as presented in the roleplaying game ) would have guaranteed him victory over Corwin.

* Magic: Three types of magic are detailed: Power Words, with a quick, small effect ; Sorcery, with pre-prepared spells as in many other game systems ; and Conjuration, the creation of small objects.

In the Nintendo / GameFreak video game franchise " Pokémon ", there are three creatures in the same evolutionary chain named Abra, Kadabra, and Alakazam ( the third of which is also an alleged magic word used by stage magicians ).

During the game, Atlanta had their 7-game win streak snapped by Florida 5 – 4, meaning the Rockies could reduce their magic number to 3 with a win.

Monsters, spells, and magic items used in the game have been inspired by hundreds of individual works such as A. E. van Vogt's " Black Destroyer ", Coeurl ( the Displacer Beast ), Lewis Carroll's " Jabberwocky " ( vorpal sword ) and the Book of Genesis ( the clerical spell ' Blade Barrier ' was inspired by the " flaming sword which turned every way " at the gates of Eden ).

In the video game Gray Matter a magicians club is named Daedalus, with a winged statue in the lobby in possible relation to him being an icon of magic, science or both.

Editor Scott Haring noted ( referring to the FASA edition ) that " Earthdawn had an original, inventive magic system ( no mean trick given the hundreds of fantasy RPGs that came before ), and a game world that gave you the classic " monsters and dungeons " sort of RPG experience, but made sense doing it.

; Forgotten Futures IV: The Carnacki Cylinders: Horror and the supernatural in Edwardian England, including the original text and illustrations for William Hope Hodgson's " Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder ", a worldbook with rules for magic and the Ab-natural, three adventures and two long outlines, a story-telling card game, etc.

For example, one popular Easter egg was in the Enchanter game, which involved collecting magic spells to use in accomplishing the quest.

The characters portrayed in the game are referred to as mages, and are capable of feats of magic.

When a mage performs an act of magic that does not seriously violate this commonsense version of reality, in game terms this is called coincidental magic.

In order to understand the metaphysics of the Mage setting, it is important to remember that many of the terms used to describe magic and Magi e. g., Avatar, Quintessence, the Umbra, and Paradox, Resonance, as well as the game mechanics a player uses to describe the areas of magic in which his character is proficient — the Spheres, look, mean, and are understood very differently depending on the paradigm of the Mage in question, even though they are often, in the texts of the game, described from particular paradigmatic points-of-view.

One of Mage's highlights is its system for describing magic, based on spheres, a relatively open-ended ' toolkit ' approach to using game mechanics to define the bounds of a given character's magical ability.

There are a total of eleven weapons in the game, divided into three groups: the bullet weapons, the missile weapons, and the magic weapons.

Shadowrun is a science fantasy role-playing game set in a near-future fictional universe in which cybernetics, magic and fantasy creatures co-exist.

Unlike in a purely cyberpunk game, in the Shadowrun world, magic exists and has " worked " since 2011.

The game is set 62 years in the future, following a great change that has returned magic to the world.

Some items are consistent and appear many times throughout the series, such as bombs, which can be used both as weapons and to open blocked or hidden doorways, boomerangs, which can kill or paralyze enemies, keys for locked doors, magic swords and shields and bows and arrows, while others are unique to a single game.

In nearly every Zelda game, navigating a dungeon is aided by locating a map, which reveals its layout, and a magic compass, which reveals the location of significant items.

Plotting these numbers on a 3 × 3 magic square shows that the game exactly corresponds with tic-tac-toe, since three numbers will be arranged in a straight line if and only if they total 15.