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.

*" Dear Esther " is a 2012 video game by thechineseroom that allows the player to traverse an uninhabitated Hebridean island ; as the player does so letters and diary excerpts are recalled audibly by the narrator to reveal the story and encourage progression towards certain areas.

** Enemy corridor planets, in which the player must traverse through a fast-paced corridor.

A player uses his Free Peoples cards to attempt to traverse the site-path and destroy the One Ring by reaching the ninth site.

Throughout much of the game, the player must attempt to traverse the palace by running across walls, ascending or descending chasms by jumping back and forth between walls, avoiding traps, climbing structures and jumping from platform to platform, making other types of well-timed leaps, solving puzzles, and using discovered objects to progress.

The player ( as Mega Man ) and his bird companion List of Mega Man characters # Beat | Beat traverse Star Man's stage.

Ability souls give the player innate abilities, which are often required to traverse certain areas of the castle.

The game allows a player to traverse through 13 mythical dungeons to gather seven crowns to defeat the evil cleric " Wistrik ".

The end of each level contains a " training course ", with unique music, which the player can traverse within an allotted time for bonus points.

There, the player must traverse the maze, from the first-person perspective, and escape through the exit without being eaten.

The player must traverse the University grounds in an attempt to recover the term paper's data.

The player must traverse the levels and reach the end goal, a signpost with an exclamation mark on it.

Elvin's stronghold also grew in size, now divided into a number of towers which the player had to traverse, all the while picking up pieces of the password ( an aural one this time around ).

The goal of Larn is for the player to traverse a dungeon in search of a potion that will cure his ailing daughter of ' dianthroritis '.

The player tries to traverse the levels by sneaking by, impersonating and sometimes killing opponents.

The player then starts from a specific room inside the castle, and must use his wits and skill to traverse through a vast network of interconnected rooms to find the exit.

In addition, on vehicle maps every player is equipped with a personal hover board, a skateboard-like device that allows players to quickly traverse large maps and grapple onto other team-mates ' vehicles.

The player takes on the role of the titular character X, who must traverse and clear a series of eight, side-scrolling stages in the order of the player's choosing.

As the adventurer, the player must traverse Fire Island, battling Lizard Men and various other monsters.

The new challenges include a set of new creatures: rabid bats, which fly in a more erratic pattern and reverse directions upon reaching the end of the screen ( they also do not appear for several seconds after reaching the screen, thereby " surprising " the player ); frogs that traverse the entire horizontal screen and follow Harry, rather than simply jumping over a pit ; fire ants and piranha fish, both of which move very fast and are very hard to avoid.

Special devices called " Tools " unique to each character allow the player to traverse otherwise impassable situations while not in battle.

Among other convention-flouting novelties that the game offers are a series of fake title screens that the player must pass through at the start, and the allowance of the main character to traverse the background at times to bypass pits of spikes that otherwise appear impossible to cross.