When the player surrenders, the house takes half the player's bet and return the other half to the player ; this terminates the player's interest in the hand.

A player who completes the fourth side of a 1 × 1 box earns one point and takes another turn.

A novice player faced with a situation like position 1 in the diagram on the left, in which some boxes can be captured, takes all the boxes in the chain, resulting in position 2.

When a cut leaves a coin with no strings, the player pockets the coin and takes another turn.

The object of a trick-taking game is based on the play of multiple rounds, or tricks, in each of which each player plays a single card from their hand, and based on the values of played cards one player wins or " takes " the trick.

The player takes on the role of the ruler of a civilization, starting with only one settler unit, and attempts to build an empire in competition with two to six other civilizations.

Each player takes a stroke in turn, each trying to hit a ball through the same hoop.

Extreme versions include a drink for every touch a player takes of the ball.

The player takes the role of an unnamed space marine who has been punitively posted to Mars after assaulting his commanding officer, who ordered his unit to fire upon civilians.

Both the victory point and the trade privilege are lost if another player takes control of the merchant.

A retail edition, distributed by GT Interactive, was titled Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders and features two additional episodes: The Ossuary, which takes the player to the shattered remains of a world conquered by the Serpent Riders many centuries ago, and The Stagnant Demesne, where the player enters D ' Sparil's birthplace.

However, if the player uses the " all weapons " cheat code from Doom, a message appears warning the player against cheating and takes away all of his weapons, leaving him with only a quarterstaff.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has a level named Mind the Gap where most of the level takes place between the dockyards and Westminster while the player and a team of SAS attempt to take down cargo being shipped using London Underground.

* 1929 – Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th first-class wicket during a performance of 9 for 39 at Leyton ; he is the only player in history to have reached that plateau.

In the game Supreme Commander, the player takes control of a mecha known as the Armoured Command Unit ( ACU ).

The player takes the part of a dungeon-delving character in search of the Amulet of Yendor.

* Basic scoring: Each player scores 1 point for each trick he / she takes.

* Variant basic scoring: As with Basic Scoring each player scores 1 point for each trick he / she takes however a player that wins the exact number of tricks bid receives an additional 5 points for making the contract.

For example, if a player who has bid four takes exactly 4 tricks, he scores 14.

For example, a player bids 4: If he takes exactly 4 tricks, he scores 14.

Since a player cannot control another player's bids, and since all bids are non-refundable, the auction involves a considerable amount of strategizing and prioritization by players.

Each player may control one or more game pieces.

The player whose bet is at the front of the betting box is deemed to have control over the position, and the dealer will consult the controlling player for playing decisions regarding the hand ; the other players of that box are said to " play behind ".

Any player is usually allowed to control or bet in as many boxes as desired at a single table, but it is prohibited for an individual to play on more than one table at a time or to place multiple bets within a single box.

Therefore, when played by experts, Dots and Boxes becomes a battle for control: An expert player tries to force their opponent to start the first long chain.

Limitations with mp3-player DJing equipment has meant that only second generation equipment such as the IDJ2 or the Cortex Dmix-300 have the pitch control that alters tempo and allows for beatmatching on a digital music player.

Any young player who has good control will become a successful curve pitcher long before the pitcher who is endeavoring to master both curves and control at the same time.

Despite its many ( serious ) limitations, including extremely low volume, it has considerable expressive power, the player being able to control attack, duration, volume, and even provide certain subtle effects of swelling of tone and a type of vibrato unique to the clavichord.

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.

Some players use the more nimble tips of the fingers to play fast-moving solo passages or to pluck lightly for quiet tunes. The use of amplification allows the player to have more control over the tone of the instrument, because amplifiers have equalization controls that allow the bassist to accentuate certain frequencies ( often the bass frequencies ) while de-accentuating some frequencies ( often the high frequencies, so that there is less finger noise ).

While Duck Hunt does not have a traditional multiplayer mode, the manual states that a second player may plug in a standard NES controller in the other controller port and control the duck that appears.

The player with the control of the merchant can trade the resource ( not commodity ) of that type at a two-to-one rate, as if the player had a control of a corresponding two-to-one harbor.

The player with the control of the merchant also earns a victory point.

If a player is dribbling the ball and either loses control and kicks the ball or another player interferes that player is not permitted to gain control and continue dribbling.

In Spore, the Grox refer to the player and to other alien empires as " slow thinking carbon-based lifeforms " and " carbon wads ", implying that the Grox ( which are at least partly machine life ) are not carbon-based.

In the single-player game, the player assumes the role of a Marine named Bitterman taking part in " Operation Alien Overlord ", a desperate attempt to protect Earth from an alien invasion by launching a counter-attack on the home planet of the hostile cybernetic Strogg civilization.

The player controls a space fighter named R-9a " Arrowhead " to defend humanity against a mysterious but powerful alien life-form known as " Bydo ", which was later discovered to be not entirely alien in origin.

The player usually first discovers the alphabet in the first Commander Keen game, Marooned on Mars, where Keen telepathically hears an alien inside a shrine say: " It is too bad you cannot understand the Standard Galactic Alphabet, human ".

Throughout the game, the player attempts to defend the ship ( and its crew and colonists ) from a race of alien slavers called the Pfhor.

Gravity is fairly low on some levels, and the correct application of the flamethrower or alien weapon allows the player to hover.

The motion sensor displays alien creatures as red triangles and friendly humans or robots as green squares ; it tracks their motion relative to the player, represented by a square in the middle whenever the player moves.

The player defeats an alien, and earns points, by shooting it with the laser cannon.

in which the player controls an alien scout in order to destroy and eventually become the President of the United States, as well as annihilate humans in their path.

* In the video game Resistance 2, the player must activate anti-aircraft towers in Twin Falls in order to stop an alien invasion.

The game begins with a briefing between a bald anonymous executive ( in later games named Dravis ) of the Post Terran Minerals Corporation ( PTMC ) and the player, a " Material Defender " ( revealed as MD1032 in the briefings, also using the callsign " Vertigo-1 ") hired on a mercenary basis to eliminate the threat of an alien computer virus infecting the robots used for off-world mining operations.

He keeps a baseball on the desk in his office ( given to him by an alien impersonating Buck Bokai, Sisko's favorite historical baseball player ) halfway through the first season ), and often picks it up and tosses it around when deep in thought.

The player takes control of the lone soldier who has infiltrated the alien invaded military base.

With the illusion broken, the player would find his or her way onto the alien ship and out of the holo-world upon which he or she was previously trapped.

Now armed with high tech equipment and making allies of certain alien factions sympathetic to the player's cause, the player could take the fight to his or her captors.

The player never actually gets to see the alien city, as it is located outside the playable map, but must instead rely on espionage to find out what the aliens and their city look like.

* Cielo robado ( stolen heaven ): if the player gets the exact value to capture a piece on alien arrival boxes, he can win the game from there, as if they were his own arrival point.

The game features vehicles, ranging from armored jeeps and tanks to alien hovercraft and aircraft, many of which can be controlled by the player.

The story places the player in the role of a human pilot in the Galactic Terran Alliance, as it engages in war with the alien Parliamentary Vasudan Empire.

The player is thrust into the game during the fourteenth year of war between the GTA and the alien Parliamentary Vasudan Empire.

Aliens may be cautious, friendly, or hostile ; the player can influence alien reactions by arming weapons and shields or hailing the aliens with varying communication styles.

However, the story behind the games remained the same: Tamagotchis are a small alien species that deposited an egg on Earth to see what life was like, and it is up to the player to raise the egg into an adult creature.