It was the night Clayton had tricked them in the poker game.

It was strictly the deputy's game, but McBride had gone too far to throw in.

And while he was ever alert for game, and most particularly a tiger, Penny marvelled at the Eden they were traversing.

even when the fences became a part of the game -- when a vine-embowered gate-post was the Sleeping Beauty's enchanted castle, or when Rapunzel let down her golden hair from beneath the crocketed spire, even then we paid little heed to those who went by on the path outside.

One evening, while a volley-ball game was being played in the yard among the prisoners remaining there, a simulated melee was staged -- just as the gates were opened to admit other prisoners returning from work.

the pope was playing a dangerous game, with so many balls in the air at once that a misstep would bring them all about his ears, and his only hope was to temporize so that he could take advantage of every change in the delicate balance of European affairs.

The younger men, Vere, and Pembroke, who was also Edward's cousin and whose Lusignan blood gave him the swarthy complexion that caused Edward of Carnarvon's irreverent friend, Piers Gaveston, to nickname him `` Joseph the Jew '', were relatively new to the game of diplomacy, but Pontissara had been on missions to Rome before, and Hotham, a man of great learning, `` jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest religion, and pleasing in the eyes of all '', and an archbishop to boot, was as reliable and experienced as Othon himself.

To me it was a game, to her it was the deadly seriousness of life.

He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.

After all, when one has asked whatever became of old Joe and Charlie when one has inquired who it was Sue Brown married and where it is they now live when questions are asked and answered about families and children, and old professors when the game and its probable outcome has been exhausted that does it.

Enough of his life was spent there on the field for him never to like watching the game as a spectator in the crowd.

It was rather a childish game, all in all, but everybody seemed to be getting into the spirit of the thing and he could not remember when he had enjoyed planning anything quite so much.

`` Bull tailin' '' was a game once pop'lar with the Mexican cowboys of Texas.

( In the graveyard at Nairobi he had been shown the graves of thirty-four big game hunters killed hunting the animals he was attempting to lasso.

This was a bitterly fought game, carrying almost as much grudge as a fist fight, with no friendliness exhibited between the teams except the formal politeness that accompanied the setting forth of ground rules and agreements on balls that went into the crowd.

Every pitch in the game brought forth a howl from the enraptured audience and every fly ball the visitors dropped ( and because their right fielder was still a little fuzzy from drink, they dropped many ) called forth yelps of derision.

At one point in the game when the skinny old man in suspenders who was acting as umpire got in the way of a thrown ball and took it painfully in the kidneys, he lay there unattended while players and spectators wrangled over whether the ball was `` dead '' or the base runners were free to score.

Baseball was surely the national game in those days, even though professional baseball may have been merely a business.

Even a city of thirty thousand might have six baseball teams, sponsored by grocers and hardware merchants or department stores, that played two or three times a week throughout the summer, usually in the cool of the evening, before an earnest and partisan audience who did not begrudge a quarter each, or even more, to be dropped into a hat when the game was half over.

Ruth was a delinquent boy still, but he was in every way a great ball player who was out to win the game and occasionally risked a cracked bone to do it.

The object of the game is to shoot and destroy asteroids and saucers while not colliding with either, or being hit by the saucers ' counter-fire.

Any player may declare the game over at any time during his turn if either of two conditions is true: one chain has 41 or more tiles, or there is at least one chain on the board and every chain on the board has 11 or more tiles.

Much of the northern colonists depended upon the ability either of themselves to hunt, or for others from which they could purchase game.

No code to date has been found for that game either.

* SV — Save: number of games where the pitcher enters a game led by the pitcher's team, finishes the game without surrendering the lead, is not the winning pitcher, and either ( a ) the lead was three runs or fewer when the pitcher entered the game ; ( b ) the potential tying run was on base, at bat, or on deck ; or ( c ) the pitcher pitched three or more innings

Ned Cuthbert, playing for the Philadelphia Keystones in either 1863 or 1865, is documented as the first baseball player to steal a base in a baseball game, although the term stolen base was not used until 1871.

On each deal, each side is said to be either vulnerable or not vulnerable depending upon whether or not it has previously won a game ; if it has, the side is said to be vulnerable ; if it has not, it is said to be not vulnerable.

The controlling body sets the game to either 21, 25 or 31.

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

A monster will also become angry if either player collects a skull ( the only negative item in the game ), and the monster is hit by the resulting comet crossing the screen.

If the player to move has no legal moves, the game is over ; it is either a checkmate — if the king is under attack — or a stalemate — if the king is not.

A new card game starts in a small way, either as someone's invention, or as a modification of an existing game.

Drinking card games are, true to their name, a subset of drinking games using cards, in which the object in playing the game is either to drink or to force others to drink.

The game finishes when one of the musicians holding a berimbau determine it, when one of the capoeiristas decide to leave or call the end of the game or when another capoeirista interrupts the game to start playing, either with one of the current players or with another capoeirista.

In either of these situations, one player will begin walking around the perimeter of the circle counter-clockwise, and the other player will join the volta ao mundo in the opposite part of the roda, before returning to the normal game.

Entering the final game of the 1958 season, Cleveland needed to either win or tie against the New York Giants to clinch the Eastern Conference title and the right to host the championship game.

The club recorded undefeated regular seasons in 1934 and 1942, but ( unlike the 1972 Dolphins ) did not win the championship game in either season.

In a three-player game, all players control either one or two sets of pieces each.

In a pivotal swing game that would either see the Rockies leave San Francisco with a 1. 5 game lead or a 3. 5 game lead, Colorado once again built a large lead against Matt Cain in the finale of the series on September 16.

Notable popular games particularly associated with the Electron include: Crystal Castles ( video game ) | Crystal Castles is an example of a popular arcade game officially ported to the Electron ( US Gold ).

is an arcade game by Taito, first released in 1986 and later ported to numerous home computers and game consoles.

The game was quickly ported by enthusiasts to modern operating systems.

The game was ported to Nintendo DS in 2010.

This allowed the game to be ported to different platforms such as Linux and OS / 2 ( EComStation ).

By the release of Version 6 Unix ( 1975 ), the game had been ported to Unix C. An implementation of Hunt the Wumpus was typically included with MBASIC, Microsoft's BASIC interpreter for CP / M and one of the company's first products.

As the games were text based and used variants of the same Z-machine interpreter, the interpreter had to be ported to new computer architectures only once per architecture, rather than once per game.

Some Id Software titles ported to Linux are Doom ( the first Id Software game to be ported ), Quake, Quake II, Quake III Arena, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, Doom 3, Quake 4, and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars.

The site featured two games coded and designed by Jacobs, a MUD called Aradath ( which was later renamed, upgraded and ported to GEnie as Dragon's Gate ) and a 4X science-fiction game called Galaxy, which was also ported to GEnie.

In computer gaming, Murder Motel was an online text game by Sean D. Wagle, hosted on various dial-up bulletin board systems ( 1980s, originally Color64, ported to various other platforms ).

Idol Mahjong Final Romance II, an arcade game which was not an MVS game, was also ported to the Neo Geo CD.

The Gladiator bots from Quake II were ported to Quake III and incorporated into the game by their creator-Jan Paul van Waveren, aka Mr. Elusive.

The game has also been ported to the PlayStation Portable ( PSP ), with multiplayer options, the ability to load maps and mods, and has inspired homebrew like Kurok, a mix of Turok and Goldeneye 64, and Left 4 Quake, a fan-made Left 4 Dead in Quake.

Fans of the game ported it to Linux, Mac OS, Xbox, Dreamcast, PlayStation Portable and Nintendo DS ( homebrew ) and 32-bit versions of Microsoft Windows.

In 2003, the game was ported to the PlayStation 2 and Xbox video game consoles and subtitled as Operation Resurrection and Tides of War, respectively.

In 1992, the game was ported as SameGame to Unix platforms by Eiji Fukumoto, and to the NEC PC-9801 series by Wataru Yoshioka.

The game was originally developed for the poorly selling, Japanese-only Nintendo 64DD, but was ported to cartridge format when the 64DD hardware was delayed.

The game was ported to Linux by Loki Software, who had previously ported Quake III Arena to Linux.