A board game is a game that involves counters or pieces moved or placed on a pre-marked surface or " board ", according to a set of rules.

The game ends when no more lines can be placed.

Checkers placed on the bar re-enter the game through the opponent's home board.

At the start of each game, the doubling cube is placed on the bar with the number 64 showing ; the cube is then said to be " centered, on 1 ".

Though there are a variety of positions in which the outfield ( non-goalkeeper ) players are strategically placed by a coach, these positions are not defined or required by the rules of the game.

There is no restriction placed on the piece that is chosen on promotion, so it is possible to have more pieces of the same type than at the start of the game ( for example, two queens ).

When joining the game, money ( and I. D., if necessary ) should be placed on the table rather than passed directly to a dealer.

* Baulk: An imaginary line on which a ball is placed for its first shot in the game, or when taking a lift.

In Germany, the BPjM placed the game on the List of Media Harmful to Young People, thus prohibiting its public distribution.

IGN also placed the game at number 77 on its " Top 100 NES Games of All Time " feature.

Goal posts were placed on the goal line, and any kicks that did not result in field goals but left the field through the end lines were simply recorded as touchbacks ( or, in the Canadian game, singles ; it was during the pre-end zone era that Hugh Gall set the record for most singles in a game, with 8 ).

Also called Gobang or Five in a Row, it is traditionally played with Go pieces ( black and white stones ) on a go board ( 19x19 intersections ); however, because once placed, pieces are not moved or removed from the board, gomoku may also be played as a paper and pencil game.

In order to play this game, symbols were cut out of paper and placed on a platter.

The object of the game is to move a hockey puck from the center of the box out through a hole placed at the end of the box ( known as the goal ).

At the start of the game, the player's four pieces are placed in the start area of their colour.

Edge gave it a score of 8 / 10 in its original 1996 review of the game, and in its October 2003 issue the magazine's staff placed Nights in its list of the ten greatest platform games.

In Grundy's game, another variation of Nim, a number of objects are placed in an initial heap, and two players alternately divide a heap into two nonempty heaps of different sizes.

A game of phutball after five men have been placed ( the ball has yet to move )

At the start of the game the football is placed on the central point, unless one player gives the other a handicap, in which case the ball starts nearer one player's goal.

QTest also gave gamers their first peek into the filesystem and modifiability of the Quake engine, and many entity mods ( that placed monsters in the otherwise empty multiplayer maps ) and custom player skins began appearing online before the full game was even released.

Each player's objective is generally to have as many disks one's own color at the end as possible and for one's opponent to have as few — or, technically in consideration of the occasional game in which not all disks are placed, that the difference between the two should be as large as possible if the winner and as small as possible if the loser.

For the specific game of Othello ( as technically differing from Reversi ), the rules state that the game begins with four disks placed in a square in the middle of the grid, two facing light-up, two pieces with the dark side up, with same-colored disks on a diagonal with each other.

Three days later, the 22nd, in the first game of a doubleheader at Oriole Park at Camden Yards, the Rangers ' bats came alive with a modern record for runs by one team, defeating the Baltimore Orioles 30 – 3.

Citing a lack of decent exclusives and an " astronomical asking price ", in 2009 video game website IGN chose the 3DO as its 22nd greatest video game console of all time, slightly higher than the Atari Jaguar but lower than its four other major competitors: the SNES ( 4th best ), the Sega Mega Drive ( 5th ), the Sony PlayStation ( 7th ), and the Sega Saturn ( 18th ).

* Doom, the events of the computer game series take place in the 22nd century.

In 2011, Wirtualna Polska ranked it as the 22nd best Amiga game, noting its " absurdly " high difficulty.

His record in matches was equally impressive: at Berlin in 1890 he drew a short play-off match against his brother Berthold ; and won all his other matches from 1889 to 1893, mostly against top-class opponents: Curt von Bardeleben ( 1889 ; ranked 9th best player in the world by Chessmetrics at that time ), Jacques Mieses ( 1889 ; ranked 11th ), Henry Edward Bird ( 1890 ; then 60 years old ; ranked 29th ), Berthold Englisch ( 1890 ; ranked 18th ), Joseph Henry Blackburne ( 1892, without losing a game ; Blackburne was aged 51 then, but still 9th in the world ), Jackson Showalter ( 1892 – 1893 ; 22nd ) and Celso Golmayo Zúpide ( 1893 ; 29th ).

The idea, along with the notion that the players chosen for the two All-Star teams should be the best at the time of the game rather than the best of the players from the season before, quickly gained popularity, although the Cup champions reserved the right to host the 22nd All-Star Game.

On June 13, 2012, Matt Cain threw the 22nd perfect game in MLB history against the Houston Astros.

He ranked sixth in the nation with a 158. 9 passing efficiency rating and 22nd in total offense, with 233. 8 yards per game.

Against the New England Patriots Manning passed for 396 yards, 4 TDs and 3 interceptions, the 22nd time Manning threw 4 TDs in a game and breaking a tie with Dan Marino for second-most all-time.

It was his eleventh international goal in his 22nd match – an admirable ratio of one goal every other game.

Paradroid ' 90 ' was ranked the 22nd best game of all time by Amiga Power.

* Captain John Price, fictional leader of the 22nd SAS Regiment in the 2007 video game Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.

The 22nd level is unofficially known as the kill screen, due to an error in the game's programming that kills Mario after a few seconds, effectively ending the game.

The game is set in the 22nd Century.

The game was delayed a second time by a stray dog entering the pitch before Kildare County pulled back two goals from Phillip Hughes in the second half resulting in a draw and leaving the affair finely poised for the second leg in Station Road on Friday November the 22nd 2008.

The Shield was won in the last game played at the Market's Field on the 22nd of April 1984.

He was part of a World Series Championship his first year in the big leagues as the Yankees completed a four game sweep of the Chicago Cubs in the 1932 World Series two days shy of Crosetti's 22nd birthday.

Boris Spassky also played the St. George Defence, albeit by transposition, in the 22nd game of his 1966 world championship match against World Champion Tigran Petrosian.

Originally from South Australian National Football League club Glenelg, McRae was drafted by AFL club Brisbane as the 22nd pick in the 1994 draft and had an immediate impact, kicking two goals in his first game in 1995, and played every game of that year.

The GBA version of Mega Man Battle Chip Challenge was the 22nd best-selling game in Japan during its release week at 7, 403 copies sold.

Boris Spassky played 1. d4 b5 against Tigran Petrosian in the decisive 22nd game of their world championship match in 1966.

After Pawtucket's Luis Aponte pitched the seventh to 10th innings in relief, manager Joe Morgan — who himself would be ejected in the 22nd inning by Cregg — let him leave before the game ended.