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.

A D & D game session in progress

The gamemaster prepares the game session for the players and the characters they play ( known as player characters or PCs ), describes the events taking place and decides on the outcomes of players ' decisions.

A typical closed game session might involve one to two dozen players, although some games claimed to have as many as five hundred people simultaneously competing in the same game world.

Some bonus rounds are a special session of free spins ( the number of which is often based on the winning combination that triggers the bonus ), often with a different or modified set of winning combinations as the main game, and often with winning credit values increased by a specific multiplier, which is prominently displayed as part of the bonus graphics and / or animation ( which in many cases is of a slightly different design or color scheme from the main game ).

More Hero Points would be awarded for experience at the end of a game session.

Similar in concept to the DM's shields produced by TSR for Dungeons & Dragons, the screen summarized all game mechanic information likely to be required during a given session.

The Islanders won the series in the third game as J. P. Parise scored just 11 seconds into the extra session.

Major video game critics often have a " best of E3 " award session ( similar to end-of-year award sessions ), and only E3 consistently features such awards.

Deathmatches have different rules and goals depending on the game, but an example of a typical FPS-deathmatch session is where every player is versus every other player.

After a session has commenced, arbitrary players may join and leave the game on an ad hoc basis.

On game day, an autograph session with the football student-athletes is held in Beaver Stadium, prior to kickoff of the Blue-White football intrasquad scrimmage game.

In his 2007 essay, game designer and writer Allen Varney said that the game " can be beastly in play " since it " requires improvisation worthy of its namesake, and thus you need a particular kind of player and a particular mood for a session to proceed smoothly.

One player at this initial gaming session was game designer Terry Phillips, who was playing as Raistlin.

These games are usually played for modest stakes, although the final game of a session is frequently a coverall game that offers a larger jackpot prize for winning within a certain quantity of numbers called ; a progressive jackpot may increase per session until it is won.

Station Casinos, a chain of locals-oriented casinos in Las Vegas, offers a special game each session, called " Jumbo " that ties all of its properties together with a large progressive jackpot.

If no one has achieved bingo before or on the desired ball count then the game is played again in another session in which the desired ball count increases by one and the jackpot is increased also.

* Uru: Ages Beyond Myst, an adventure computer game

* The Ark is one of four relics that must be recovered in the 1996 science fiction adventure game Drowned God: Conspiracy of the Ages.

* In 1995 an adventure game based on the series was released called Beavis and Butt-head in Virtual Stupidity on the PC, with a PlayStation port being released in Japan.

* Chimera ( video game ), a 1985 isometric maze arcade adventure

A game often continues over a series of meetings to complete a single adventure, and longer into a series of related gaming adventures, called a ' campaign '.

A typical Dungeons & Dragons game consists of an ' adventure ', which is roughly equivalent to a single story.

The games consists of a number of genres including life simulation, adventure, video card game, strategy and racing games, though they are mainly action role-playing games.

Also in 1996, Devo also released a multimedia CD-ROM adventure game, The Adventures of the Smart Patrol with Inscape.

In 1986, the novel was adapted into a computer text adventure game of the same name.

Currently several versions of the rules are on line ( complete and summary versions in HTML and PDF, and a German translation in PDF ), along with a sample adventure set in a Victorian Channel Tunnel, plus eleven game collections ( source material plus background worldbook, adventures, etc.

The game includes rules, three adventures and four adventure outlines, a wargame by Matthew Hartley, a long section on the ' science ' of Flatland which attempts to explain aspects of the world and its natives, and the original book.

Chaosium's role-playing game Call of Cthulhu ( currently in its sixth major edition ) has been in print for 30 years and has garnered consistent praise for the high quality of its campaign and adventure supplements.

The experimental first-person adventure video game Dear Esther takes place on an unnamed Hebridean island.

In an attempt to reach out to females, Infocom also produced Plundered Hearts, which required the gamer to take the part of a heroine in a swashbuckling adventure on the high seas, and which required the heroine to use more feminine tactics to win the game, since hacking-and-slashing was not a very ladylike way to behave.

In common usage, the term refers to text adventures, a type of adventure game where the entire interface can be " text-only ".

Graphical text adventure games, where the text is accompanied by graphics ( still images, animations or video ) still fall under the text adventure category if the main way to interact with the game is text.

It can also be used to distinguish the more modern style of such works, focusing on narrative and not necessarily falling into the adventure game genre at all, from the more traditional focus on puzzles.

* Amateur adventure game

* IFReviews Organization, huge repository for text adventure game reviews written and rated by Interactive Fiction community players and members.

* Inca ( video game ), an adventure game by Coktel Vision

Colossal Cave Adventure, created in 1975 by Will Crowther on a DEC PDP-10 computer, was the first widely used adventure game.

In 1978 Roy Trubshaw, a student at Essex University in the UK, started working on a multi-user adventure game in the MACRO-10 assembly language for a DEC PDP-10.

The original 256-page game book was published in 1991 by Phage Press, covering material from the first five novels ( the " Corwin Cycle ") and some details-sorcery and the Logrus-from the remaining five novels ( the " Merlin Cycle "), in order to allow players to roleplay characters from the Courts of Chaos.

His opponent must either accept (" take ") the doubled stakes or resign (" drop ") the game immediately.

* " Beancounters " aka accountants ( disposable, interchangeable, faceless, used on occasion as balls in a game of " blackout fire-alarm beancounter pinball ")

In addition, it was also the first role-playing game to have detailed martial arts rules ( known as " Bun Fu ") and the first attempt at a skill system.

In constraint-induced aphasia therapy, the interaction is guided by communicative need in a language game context, picture cards, barriers making it impossible to see other players ' cards, and other materials, so that patients are encouraged (" constrained ") to use the remaining verbal abilities to succeed in the communication game.

Having already moved from its ground at Kent Street, Ascot Vale (" McCracken's Paddock ") to Flemington Hill, the club was again forced to move in 1881 ; and, because the City of Essendon mayor of the day, James Taylor, considered the Essendon Cricket Ground " to be suitable only for the gentleman's game of cricket ", Essendon moved to East Melbourne.

There is a depiction of a hockey-like game from 200 BC in Ancient Greece when the game may have been called " Κερητίζειν " (" kerētízein ") because it was played with a horn (" κέρας " in Greek ) and a ball-like object.

In contrast, the Deutscher Spiele Preis (" German game prize ") is often awarded to games that are more complex and strategic, such as Puerto Rico.

Gygax designed numerous manuals for the game system, as well as several pre-packaged adventures called " modules " that gave a person running a D & D game ( the " Dungeon Master ") a rough script and ideas on how to run a particular gaming scenario.

The Game. com ( styled as game. com but pronounced as " game com ," not " game dot com ") is a handheld game console released by Tiger Electronics in September 1997.

Lebling and Blank each authored several more games and additional game writers ( or " Implementors ") were hired, notably including Steve Meretzky.

" great god ") on the Japanese game cover, makes a play on words between the word for wolf ( 狼 ) and the word Kami, as 大神 and 狼 are pronounced the same way ; the pivotal protagonist is a statue of a wolf possessed by Amaterasu.

Ludo ( from Latin ludo, " I play ") is a board game for two to four players, in which the players race their four tokens from start to finish according to dice rolls.

In Monty Python, Palin played various roles, which ranged from manic enthusiasm ( such as the lumberjack of the Lumberjack Song, or Herbert Anchovy, host of the game show " Blackmail ") to unflappable calmness ( such as the Dead Parrot vendor, Cheese Shop proprietor, or Postal Clerk ).

" Video game " ( or " videogame ") has evolved into a catchall phrase that encompasses the aforementioned along with any game made for any other device, including, but not limited to, mobile phones, PDAs, advanced calculators, etc.

Although the games existed in pockets in Europe -- it is recorded as being played as early as the 17th century by merchants in England -- it has never gained much popularity in most regions, except in the Baltic area, where once it was a very popular game (" Bohnenspiel ") and Bosnia, where it is called Ban-Ban and still played today.