* In the roleplaying game Splicers by Palladium Books, humanity has succumbed to a " nanobot plague " that causes any object made of a non-precious metal to twist and change shape ( sometimes into a type of robot ) moments after being touched by a human.

One can replace any round of ( or add a round to ) a stud poker game with a twist round, in which each player is offered the option to replace exactly one card in his hand with a new one from the remaining deck stub.

The Fighting Fantasy gamebooks were created by British writers Steve Jackson ( not to be confused with the US-based game designer of the same name ) and Ian Livingstone, co-founders of Games Workshop, and provide an original twist on traditional fiction in that the reader takes control of the story's protagonist, being required to make choices that will affect the outcome.

It was a surprising twist on the game show genre.

Graphically the game was very simple with a humorous twist.

In a twist of fate, Marion was Fosse's hometown, the same man who Rose bowled over during the All-Star game nearly 20 years prior which resulted in injuries that plagued Fosse for the rest of his career.

In order to enlarge that element of uncertainty variants increase the number of hole cards, add a high-low split, play with a stripped deck, introduce a twist round, enable the player to do a ' roll your own ' game or even create new and interesting hand rankings.

Fans of the twist praise the fact that their favorite players get a second chance and it adds a new layer of strategy to the game.

This twist first appeared during the game in Survivor: Thailand and for a brief while in Survivor: Palau.

Another twist to the game comes from the various window-like openings below the penthouse roofs that, in some cases, offer the player a chance to win the point instantly by hitting the ball into the opening ( in other cases, these windows create a " chase ").

In 1995, Human Entertainment's Clock Tower: The First Fear was a survival horror game that employed point-and-click graphic adventure gameplay and added a unique twist of its own: a deadly stalker known as Scissorman that chased players throughout the game.

In yet another twist, the two then appear on a stage, together with the main players from the game.

Upon arrival at their next challenge, the tribes found they faced another twist, as the six voted-off players were returned to the game as an " Outcast tribe ".

As the official description states, " A twist on the old " rescue the princess " plot, this game has you entering a mysterious land of fantasy to save your beloved from evil.

It was formally released October 31, 2007 as an action role-playing game ( RPG ) in the same vein as the Diablo games, but with the twist of being played in 3D, primarily from a first-person perspective.

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The gameplay is very similar to that of Galaga but with an added twist: the game is presented in a forced 3D perspective, with the player's ship facing ' into ' the screen and able to move around the perimeter of an implicit circle-essentially, Gyruss was Galaga mapped onto a Tempest-like cylinder.

" The artistic influence of Metal Gear Solid 2 can be seen in later video games such as Goichi Suda's similarly postmodern game Killer7, the similarly metanarrative game Portal, the survival horror title Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, and particularly the first-person shooter BioShock, which featured a similar plot twist to Metal Gear Solid 2.

Whereas the first game saw the player following a fairly linear path through the adventure, with the completion of each flat level marked by a staircase leading down onto a new slightly harder level below, Chaos Strikes Back features a choice of paths which twist back and forth over all levels.

*-" Refraction Games creates an FPS that stands out among the many that are already on the shelf, offering a unique twist in its game play.

Lisa engaged in a romance with fellow contestant Eric during the show, but she surprised her houseguests when in a later game twist, chose not to bring him back into the house when given the chance.

He praised the inclusion of extra characters, calling them a " nice twist ", but concluded his review by calling the game a " poorly-conceived port " that should be played on the original system.

By a strange twist of fate, his first ejection happened when manager of the Braves in a game against the Mets, on May 1, 1978.

The word ' torture ' comes from the French torture, originating in the Late Latin tortura and ultimately deriving the past participle of torquere meaning ' to twist '.

The word comes from Latin torquis ( or torques ), from torqueo, " to twist ", because of the twisted shape of the collar.

The film employs a twist, though, when a handsome prince comes knocking.

The uncommonness of the twist ending comes from playing with the basic whodunnit formula, where the cliché is that the detective solves the crime and expose the remaining plot secrets.

The twist comes when he arrives in an abattoir and shows detailed footage of cows being slaughtered to complete the dish.

The twist comes when her

PGmc * wenđanan comes from Proto-Indo-European *- ‘ to wind, twist ’, which also gave Umbrian preuenda ‘ turn !’ ( imperative ), Tocharian A / B wänt / wänträ ‘ covers, envelops ’, Greek ( Hesychius ) áthras ‘ wagon ’, Armenian gind ‘ ring ’, and Sanskrit vandhúra ‘ carriage framework ’.

The song begins with E ( I dominant ) chord (" He's a real ") and then involves a 5-4-3-2-1 pitch descent between the B ( V dominant ) chord (" nowhere man ") and A ( IV subdominant ) chord (" sitting in "); but the entrancing twist comes where Am ( iv minor ) replaces A in the final verse (" nowhere plans ") and the simultaneous G # note melody creates a dissonant Am / major 7.

The final twist to the mystery comes from science fiction: the theft of the bird stump itself was committed as part of an even grander design, relating to a time and a place both far removed and intimately connected with the events in 2057.

Homer comes over as a reasonable man who wants to live his last day in style, and the closing twist is easily as good as the farewells leading up to it.

The climax is an unexpected twist that comes as Much Afraid despairs of ever reaching the High Places.

The twist to the story comes when Anurag throws Anand, Sangeeta and Radhika out of his house without any share in the family assets.

The twist comes when O ' Rourke is sold to a slave trader who is very savvy and intent on taking him down south to make a profit.

In the story's final twist, the woman comes into non-consensual contact with her violating member, and makes allusions to the Ancient Mariner's Tale.

Once, then -- for how many years or how few does not matter -- my world was bound round by fences, when I was too small to reach the apple tree bough, to twist my knee over it and pull myself up.

The Santa Cruz mountains sprawl over three counties, and the roads twist through sky-tapping redwoods down whose furrowed columns ripple streams of rain, even when heat bakes the Santa Clara valley below at the left.

Earthquakes result when movements in the earth twist rocks until they break.

There was another twist on 28 July, however, when FMF Chairman Hari Punja called the lifting of the ban a fabrication.

And suppose a gladiator has been brought to the ground, when do you ever see one twist his neck away after he has been ordered to extend it for the death blow?

A properly made kilt, when buckled on the tightest holes of the straps, is not so loose that the wearer can easily twist the kilt around their body, nor so tight that it causes " scalloping " of the fabric where it is buckled.

2008 saw a new twist to Lebanese politics when the Doha Agreement set a new trend where the opposition is allowed a veto power in the Lebanese Council of Ministers and confirmed religious Confessionalism in the distribution of political power.

The tiger shark must be able to twist and turn in the water easily when hunting to support its varied diet, whereas the porbeagle shark, which hunts schooling fish such as mackerel and herring, has a large lower lobe to help it keep pace with its fast-swimming prey.

An example of when this is necessary is measuring the diameter of 3-flute endmills and twist drills.

In a twist of fate, Stalin himself was edited out of some propaganda films when Nikita Khrushchev became the leader of the Soviet Union, and the city of Tsaritsyn that had earlier been named Stalingrad was renamed Volgograd in 1961.

Line twist in spinning reels can occur from the spin of an attached lure, the action of the wire bail against the line when engaged by the crank handle, or even retrieval of line that is under load ( spinning reel users normally pump the rod up and down, then retrieve the slack line to avoid line twist and stress on internal components ).

She cannot create, but only copy, twist and change things from the real world when constructing her version of it.

The Top of the gaff rigged sail tends to twist away from the wind reducing its efficiency when close-hauled.

* 4-speed manual transmission, ( when three speeds were common ) with an unusual dashboard push / pull / twist linkage

This method does not give an easy understanding if a twist rate is relatively slow or fast when bores of different diameters are compared.

The last two methods have the advantage that they express the twist rate as a ratio and give an easy understanding if a twist rate is relatively slow or fast even when comparing bores of differing diameters.

The original value of C was 150, which yields a twist rate in inches per turn, when given the diameter D and the length L of the bullet in inches.

The story takes a fantastical twist on Joshua's miracles as well: he learns to multiply food from one of the Wise Men and learns to become invisible from another ; however, his ability to resurrect the dead figures strongly into his first meeting with Biff when both boys are six years old.

In a comic twist Oscar is mistaken for a gay man when meeting with Charles Newman ( made even more humorous by the fact that Peter is genuinely gay, with Oscar's comments leading Newman to think that Peter's the straight one ).

And the slight twist of tension which tightens around the principal character is lost in the middle of the picture when he is shelved for a dull stretch of plot.

In the Lovecraft story, body-switching also takes place, and has an added twist when a third party gets involved without the narrator's knowledge.

Star Trek: Voyager introduced another twist, when " surplus " EMHs, such sophisticated expert systems as to be almost indistinguishable from human, being effectively reduced to slavery, while other, similar systems were turned into sentient prey.

In a bizarre twist a few weeks later, the supporter's club was threatened with a lawsuit in the multi-million class by former coach Trond Sollied, who was briefly mentioned in a by-sentence of the letter as having been in charge when the bad habits of the team had begun.