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.

he hunts folklore for the very `` field and stream '' reasons that many persons hunt game ; ;

`` Kelsey is very doubtful for the Rice game '', Meek said.

Richard had kept his eyes down throughout the game, the very sound of the chatter nearly painful to his ears.

The graphics are generated by a custom graphics chip called MARIA which is very different from other second and third generation consoles, and made it more difficult for game programmers to make the transition.

Rules can range from the very simple, as in tic-tac-toe, to those describing a game universe in great detail, as in Dungeons & Dragons ( although most of the latter are role-playing games where the board is secondary to the game, helping to visualize the game scenario ).

On August 22, 1982, Glenn Brummer stole home in the bottom of the 12th inning of a tie game, thus accomplishing a walk-off straight steal of home, one of the very few in major league history.

In the very early part of the 20th century, known as the " dead-ball era ", baseball rules and equipment favored the " inside game " and the game was played more violently and aggressively than it is today.

The game was very close, and in the fourth quarter Walsh called a series of running plays as the 49ers marched down the field against the Cowboys prevent defense, which had been expecting the 49ers to mainly pass.

In combinatorial game theory dots and boxes is very close to being an impartial game and many positions can be analyzed using Sprague – Grundy theory.

A non-Japanese video game featuring a dream-eating tapir also exists., and in the Manga of Masashi Kishimoto Naruto, the late character Danzo Shimura is capable of summoning a giant Baku to aid him in battle ( unlike many modern representations, the Baku that appears in Naruto is very close to the original japanesse description of a Baku ).

The game became very popular and led to a long series of sequels and spin-offs.

Mahjong is a very similar game played with tiles instead of cards.

During the game most Capoeira moves are used, but capoeiristas usually avoid using punches or elbow strikes unless it's a very aggressive game.

It requires both a high and low stance in the game, preferably in very close distance.

Despite making the race very close, in the 161st game of the season, the Dodgers snapped their five-game losing streak – and the Rockies ' five-game winning streak – to clinch the West title.

For several weeks the channel had very few fresh episodes to show, and episodes of the game show 3-2-1 were screened in its place.

Each cabal was usually dedicated to one very specific area of the game which meant the cabal had to meet very regularly, in the case of Half-Life the members had to meet four days a week, six hours a day for five months.

Unlike the American game, Canadian rules allow a drop kick to be attempted at any time by any player, but the move is very rare.

This was the very first game to use the AY-3-8500 chip.

This is because the game is similar to a number line in that they promote a linear understanding of numbers rather than the innate logarithmic one.

One of the significant rules prohibited " soaking " or " plugging " the runner ; under older rules, a fielder could put a runner out by hitting the runner with the thrown ball, similar to the common schoolyard game of kickball.

Crokinole ( ) is an action board game similar in various ways to pitchnut, carrom, marbles, and shove ha ' penny, with elements of shuffleboard and curling reduced to table-top size.

Almost every item in the game can be normal, cursed, or enchanted, with curses and enchantments working in a manner similar to NetHack.

The 1952 and 1953 seasons followed a similar pattern, with Cleveland reaching the championship game but losing both times to the Detroit Lions.

The second theory is that the rules of the modern game of croquet arrived from Ireland during the 1850s, perhaps after being brought there from Brittany where a similar game was played on the beaches.

Records show the similar game of " crookey " being played at Castlebellingham in 1834, which was introduced to Galway in 1835 and played on the bishop's palace garden, and in the same year to the genteel Dublin suburb of Kingstown ( today Dún Laoghaire ) where it was first spelt as " croquet ".

Harvard, who was trying to get away from the soccer like game that many schools played, set out to find another school who played a game similar to them.

Another similar game took place between Rutgers and Columbia University in 1870.

The early success of Dungeons & Dragons led to a proliferation of similar game systems.

* Corporate Shuffle by Richard Garfield — 1997 ; A Dilbert-branded card game similar to Wizard of the Coast's The Great Dalmuti and the drinking game President

When, three years later, 3D Realms released Duke Nukem 3D, a tongue-in-cheek science fiction shooter based on Ken Silverman's technologically similar Build engine, id Software had nearly finished Quake, its next-generation game, which mirrored Dooms success for the remainder of the 1990s and significantly reduced interest in its predecessor.

The game is similar to fantasy games like Dungeons & Dragons, but draws more inspiration from games like RuneQuest.

The classes can be categorized based on similar characteristics that allow them to play certain types of roles within the game when grouped with others.

While the game engine itself remained relatively similar between all games in the series, the interface went through many changes.

In East Asia, a similar game was entertained, using a carved wooden stick and ball prior to 300 BC.

This is a similar game to the French Pétanque which is actually played very little on the island, although there are a few teams and courts.

* Grass ( card game ), a cannabis-themed card game similar to Mille Bornes

Geocaching is similar to the 150-year-old game letterboxing, which uses clues and references to landmarks embedded in stories.

The game is quite similar to Geocaching but has time limitations and hints in it.