A letter appears in the line below to which the player must add the existing letters to find a solution.

A popular, but probably apocryphal, story is that once when an opponent laid a cigar on the table, he complained to the tournament arbiters, " He is threatening to smoke, and as an old player you must know that the threat is stronger than the execution.

To achieve a hit, the batter must reach first base before any fielder can either tag him with the ball, throw to another player protecting the base before the batter reaches it, or tag first base while carrying the ball.

The main use of the plate appearance statistic is in determining a player's eligibility for leadership in some offensive statistical categories, notably batting average ; currently, a player must have 3. 1 PAs per game scheduled to qualify for the batting title ( for the 162-game schedule, that means 502 PAs ).

Matches are best out of three: a player or pair must win two games ( of 21 points each ) to win the match.

First, the player must turn their back to their opponents, restricting their view of them and the court.

For example, if the player rolls a 6 and a 3 ( notated as " 6-3 "), that player must move one checker six points forward, and another or the same checker three points forward.

If a player rolls two of the same number, called doubles, that player must play each die twice.

For example if a player rolls a 6 and a 5, but has no checkers on the 6-point, though 2 checkers remain on the 5-point, then the 6 and the 5 must be used to bear off the 2 checkers from the 5-point.

Whether the game is worth one point or two, the trailing player must win to continue the match.

If there are any enemy discs on the board, a player must make contact, directly or indirectly, with an enemy disc during the shot.

When there are no enemy discs on the board, many ( but not all ) rules also state that a player must shoot for the centre of the board, and a shot disc must finish either completely inside the 15-point guarded ring line, or ( depending on the specifics of the rules ) be inside or touching this line.

There are no markings on the tiles to distinguish these suits ; a player must simply remember which tiles belong to which group.

While acting as the shooter, a player must have a bet on the " Pass " line or the " Don't Pass " line.

* If a player's injury causes the play-clock to stop, the player must sit out at least one play ; and

If a word is challenged, the player who played the word must then name an acceptable word that anagrams to the tiles played.

Should this player score or be sent off, a drink must be taken.

Within the circle, after putting, a player must not advance beyond the marked lie toward the pin until establishing balance and control, normally by picking up the marker disc.

Among the obstacles are demonic monsters, pits of toxic or radioactive slime, ceilings that lower and crush the player, and locked doors for which a keycard, skull-shaped key device, or remote switch must be located.

When choosing a bass with a fifth string, the player must decide between adding a higher or lower-tuned string.

When the scrolling arrows overlap the stationary ones, the player must step on the corresponding arrows on the dance platform, and the player is given a judgment for their accuracy of every streaked notes ( From highest to lowest: Marvelous, Perfect, Great, Good, Almost, Miss.

While the players were on the tour, the National League instituted new rules regarding player pay that led to a revolt of players, led by Ward, who started the Players ' League the following season ( 1890 ).

These wagers are usually avoided by experienced craps players since they pay even money ( 1: 1 ) while a player can make place bets on the 6 or the 8, which pay more ( 7: 6 ).

Typically, the more numbers a player chooses and the more numbers hit, the greater the payout, although some paytables pay for hitting a lesser number of spots.

There was no direct payout mechanism, so a pair of kings might get the player a free beer, whereas a royal flush could pay out cigars or drinks, the prizes wholly dependent on what was on offer at the local establishment.

Short pay refers to a partial payout made by a slot machine, which is less than the amount due to the player.

The remaining amount due to the player is either paid as a hand pay or an attendant will come and refill the machine.

Each machine has a table that lists the number of credits the player will receive if the symbols listed on the pay table line up on the pay line of the machine.

Most video machines display the pay table when the player presses a " pay table " button or touches " pay table " on the screen ; some have the pay table listed on the cabinet as well.

In a more traditional wagering game like craps, the player knows that certain wagers have almost a 50 / 50 chances of winning or losing, but they only pay a limited multiple of the original bet ( usually no higher than three times ).

For instance, if a player plays 1 reel on a 243 way game, they receive three symbols in the first reel which pay anywhere in the three positions, while all other reels pay in the centre only, with unused areas darkened.

On the other end of the scale, if the player plays 5 reels, symbols can appear anywhere in the window and will pay as long as there is one in each reel.

If either player turns up such a card, his opponent has to pay a penalty: four cards for an ace, three for a King, two for a Queen, or one for a Jack.

However, if the second player turns up another ace or face card in the course of paying to the original penalty card, his payment ceases and the first player must pay to this new card.

During such times, the player can be given a special button indicating the need to pay an ante to the pot ( known as " posting "; see below ) upon their return.

If played with a bring-in, the player with the lowest-ranking upcard must pay the bring in, and betting proceeds after that.

There is only one player, and he can only pay attention to one thing at a time.

Each player holding a higher card than that of the dealer receives the amount of his stake ; all below or equal pay the dealer.

Lara was also a talented football player in his youth and often played with his close friends Dwight Yorke, Shaka Hislop and Russell Latapy while growing up together in Trinidad.

The change was intended to close a loophole in the rules which allowed teams to run an A-11 offense, in which a team could legally be exempted from eligibility numbering restrictions if the player receiving the snap was at least seven yards behind the line of scrimmage.

As the 20th Century drew to a close, the NCAA and National Federation of State High School Associations extended that protection to some time after the snap, in cases where a player is positioned at least 7 yards deep to receive a thrown snap.

As it relies on gravity to close the cymbals, the drop clutch gives the player no control over the tension holding them together, and supplies only minimal tension.

Detailed computer analysis has been done to determine the ideal strategy, but this requires memorizing large tables ; a close approximation can be done with only a few rules of thumb: when playing in a casino and in doubt, a player can always ask that his hand be set house way.

In woodsball, if you were within of an opposing player and he was unaware of your presence, it is an etiquette to offer the opposing player a " mercy ", that is to offer him a chance to surrender and call himself out of the game, instead of shooting him at close range.

To the player it might appear that a winning symbol was ' so close ', whereas in fact the probability is much lower.

Fighting game is a video game genre where the player controls an on-screen character and engages in close combat with an opponent.

At one extreme users of public transport sometimes complain about the faint and tinny sounds emanating from the headphones or earbuds of somebody listening to a portable audio player ; at the other the sound of very loud music, a jet engine at close quarters, etc.

Courtney Love — a close friend and former bandmate of Bjelland when the two lived in Portland and San Francisco — had a very brief stint in the band in 1987 as a bass player, before being kicked out and forming Hole in 1989.

Llorente, however, failed to secure such a deal and remained an Athletic player at the close of the transfer window, in spite of the bad blood which had developed between him and the club management over the situation.

A player using splash-damage weapons up close may take damage from his or her own shots ( depending on the game being played ).

Play is divided into " phases " where each player moves, shoots, and / or engages in close combat with various units.

At the close of his February 1991 British tour, in the Surrey home of Ze and Dave Markee, who had been the bass player in Eric Clapton's band, Norman received prayer for his long-term health problems from Pastor John Barr ( died January 2001 ), the Senior Pastor of the Elim Way Fellowship in Canning Town, London, and the Director of Freedom Road Ministries.

whenever a player misses a shot by little or the Suns lose a very close game.

In indoor fields, where shooting generally happens at very close range, hard-shelled armor is sometimes worn to protect the player from bruising and welts from close-range hits.

* Other paint marking equipment: Normally seen in scenario play only, and disallowed at most tournaments, other forms of paint-marking equipment are sold, such as paint-grenades ( paint-filled balloons or lengths of surgical hose ), " paint throwers " ( designed to model the effect of flamethrowers, basically a large water cannon filled with paint ), and markers ( used for close range, usually a bright color, so as to see were a player got " cut " with the pen.

The act of shooting a player at close range is colloquially called " bunkering "; it happens most often when a player uses covering fire to force his opponent behind the cover of a bunker, then advances on that bunker while still shooting to eliminate the opponent point-blank.

In order to destroy the Zylon Basestar the player must hit the target at close range.

One tournament player even required fifteen stitches to close a gaping wound across the palm of his hand.

The number of shots fired by the special attack, 40 to 400, depends on how many enemy bullets are on the screen and how close the player is to them while firing.

A female basketball player, Stacey Dales ( a graduate of Thousand Islands Secondary School ), has gone on to play for the Oklahoma University Sooners, coming in a close second for the NCAA title in her graduating year.