A player may intend, for example, to create a character who is a strong, mighty warrior, but being " outplayed " in the auction may result in lower attribute scores than anticipated, therefore necessitating a change of character concept.

A willingness to spend as many points as possible on an attribute may improve your chances of a high ranking, but too reckless a spending strategy could leave a player with few points to spend on powers and objects.

After a player places a tile, and the results of that placement have been handled, he may purchase up to three shares of stock.

A player may only purchase shares of stock in chains that have already been founded.

A player may purchase shares in one, two, or three existing chains ( assuming at least three chains are currently in play ), in any combination up to a total of three shares.

Starting with the player who caused the merger to happen, each player may either sell his shares in the acquired chain, trade in two shares of the acquired chain for one share of the acquiring chain, or hold on to his shares of the acquired chain.

A player may trade in as many shares as he owns, but may not trade in one share of the acquired chain for half a share of the acquiring chain.

If a player holds onto his stock, he runs the risk that the acquired chain may not reemerge before the game ends.

That is, the rules do not say whether one player may ask another how many shares of stock he or she owns in a particular chain.

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.

Because ending the game is optional, and a player may not realize that he can end it, it is unethical to say " good game ", or in any other way indicate that the game could be ended, until after a player actually has ended the game.

# No playable tiles-Per 2008 rules, a player that has no legal plays because all 6 tiles in his or her hand are unplayable may reveal his or her hand, set aside his or her unplayable tiles, and draw six new tiles at the beginning of his or her turn.

A player may be hampered by a few poor rolls of the dice in Risk or Monopoly, but over many games a good player will win more often.

Each player may control one or more game pieces.

In some games, pieces may not represent or belong to any particular player.

In more recent years, pure steals of home are rare, although a player may steal home plate during a " delayed double steal ," in which a runner on first attempts to steal second, while the runner on third breaks for home as soon as the catcher throws to second base.

A technical foul may also be issued when certain infractions occur, most commonly for unsportsmanlike conduct on the part of a player or coach.

A player may build up the handle with one or several grips before applying the final layer.

Players often find that sweat becomes a problem ; in this case, a drying agent may be applied to the grip or hands, sweatbands may be used, the player may choose another grip material or change his grip more frequently.

The player will encounter corpses of famous characters such as Luke Skywalker, Indiana Jones, Snake Plissken, the protagonist of Doom, and a smashed T-800.

If the player ascends the first eight strings of the bass bridge, they will encounter a flatted seventh ( C natural in this case ), because this note is drawn from the G tetrachord.

: Clear Sky, the player would encounter two Poltergeist in the escape in Agropom Undergrounds on the mission to help the Duty to stop the monsters in Agropom, in the way a radio message from the Clear Sky leader, Lebedev appeared in the player's PDA, and says about that the player is very near to Fang's PDA signal.

A major element of gameplay found in Rise of the Triad is the many hazards that the player can encounter in the environment.

* In Dungeons & Dragons 3. 5 edition, the encounter " Wild Hunt " from Monster Manual V features the Master of the Hunt and Hounds of the Hunt as they pursue the player characters.

* In the epic fantasy gamebook series Fabled Lands, the player might encounter a band of Jiang Shi ( there referred to as " hopping vampires ") serving a lich-like undead lord in " Lords of the Rising Sun ".

After a first encounter finished 0 – 0, Udinese lost a replay 2 – 1 but were awarded the win as Vicenza fielded an ineligible player, a Hungarian called Horwart.

A single encounter generator is available, but the standard mode of play is the career mode, where the player must take their boat to patrol far behind enemy lines with the mission to search for and destroy any enemy shipping.

West, who later called Summers both " uninformed " and " an unprincipled power player " in describing this encounter in his book Democracy Matters ( 2004 ), subsequently returned to Princeton University, where he had taught prior to Harvard University.

Throughout the mystery, the player will often encounter characters from the Star Trek universe, including Captain Picard and Commander Data.

During an encounter with a Kessok Heavy Cruiser, which makes no hostile movements and is unshielded, the player is presented with a choice: destroy the Kessok ship and the remaining device, or hail it.

Near overflows of memory from possessing too many items resulted in an encounter with The Devourer, a fearsome creature that sucked items from the player, and thus removed them from memory.

Killer Instinct plays like many other fighting games, in which the player controls a character in order to beat an opponent in a one-on-one encounter.

Survival horror games, like many action-adventure games, are structured around the boss encounter where the player must confront a formidable opponent in order to advance to the next area.

There are a total of nine gangs in the original NES version ( which are distinguished by the color of their t-shirts ) whom the player will encounter during the course of the game, each with their own characteristics and attacking patterns.

In Mexico City, two of El Jefe's personal henchmen, a pair of business-suit clad dispassionate hitmen, Sappensly ( Robert Webber ) and Quill ( Gig Young ), enter a saloon and encounter Bennie ( Warren Oates ), a retired United States Army officer who makes a meager living as a piano player and bar manager.

* In the PC game Fallout 2, there is a chance that the player may encounter the Guardian of Forever of Star Trek fame in an Easter egg.

A famous poem by Bai Juyi's Pipa xing ( 琵琶行 ), describes a chance encounter with a female pipa player on the Yangtze River:

The game also offers several subplots which the player may or may not encounter, depending on their actions within the game.

Little is known about how the DM determines which type a player may encounter, but the development staff have stated there is an attempt to balance a player's experience between good and bad.

While visiting the region's cities, the player will encounter special establishments called Gyms.

The first puzzles most players encounter is either one where players must select the right interconnected letters inside the lens of a telescope to form a coherent sentence ; or a relatively simple cake puzzle, where the player has to divide the cake evenly into six pieces, each containing the same number of decorations.

For instance, a player who unilaterally describes his character as doing something with ( or to ) another character that would usually require the other to play along — such as having a fight or a sexual encounter — is considered to be powergaming.