Variants largely differ on how cards are dealt and the methods by which players can improve a hand.

Variants of the five-card draw are often considered to be the most difficult poker games to master psychologically, due to the fact that no cards are open and that bluffs ( or semibluffs ) occur naturally at the draw of new cards.

Variants of both of the M16 and AK-47 are still in wide international use today, though other automatic rifle designs have since been introduced.

Variants of the Hun name are recorded in the Caucasus until the early 8th century.

Variants of the kumquat are grown specially in India.

Variants of leet have been used for censorship purposes for many years ; for instance "@$$" and "$#!+" are frequently seen to make a word appear censored to the untrained eye but obvious to a person familiar with leet.

Variants of the French semi-presidential system, developed at the beginning of the Fifth Republic by Charles de Gaulle, are used in France, Finland, Romania, Russia, Sri Lanka and several post-colonial countries which have emulated the French model.

Variants of the Sten and modern-day Heckler & Koch MP5 have been manufactured with integral suppressors, and such weapons are on occasion used by special forces and police units.

Variants with similar functionality are also available, such as on Linux installations.

Variants of the recipe, called Four Thieves Vinegar, have been passed down for hundreds of years and are a staple of New Orleans hoodoo practices.

Confining the number to published variants, D. B. Pritchard, author of The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants, estimates there are well over 2000.

Variants which include spin and curved spaces are known.

Variants of the generic style are found in a number of Maya region sites, including Tikal, Kaminaljuyu, Copan, Becan, and Oxkintok, and particularly in the Petén Basin and the central Guatemalan highlands.

Variants to the story are found in later poets: for example, in a tragedy by Sophocles, Odysseus Acanthoplex ( which also does not survive ), Odysseus finds out from an oracle that he is doomed to be killed by his son.

Variants of both types of matrices are used to detect sequences with differing levels of divergence, thus allowing users of BLAST or FASTA to restrict searches to more closely related matches or expand to detect more divergent sequences.

Variants of the SmarTruck II are designed to carry water or additional communications equipment.

Variants of this pastry are also popular in other places in Spain where it is known as roscón de Reyes, sometimes with other stuffing like whipped cream.

Variants using different physical connections, essentially a consumer version of AES3 for use within the domestic “ Hi-Fi ” environment using connectors more commonly found in the consumer market are specified in IEC 60958.

Variants of the debt profile method are employed or have been proposed.

Variants of this thesis are found almost everywhere in his earlier letters.

Pritchard, in The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants, acknowledges that the term is sometimes used for games although it is more usually applied to problems where the board, pieces or rules are changed to express an idea or theme impossible in orthochess.

), and even more so in the second movement of the String Quartet in E flat, as well as in the Cello Concerto, in which fragments of Irish music, in particular " The star of County Down " ( also used by Vaughan Williams in his Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus ), are evident.

Variants of the bumper sticker have developed in recent years, including vinyl decals meant to be applied to a car's rear windshield, and chrome emblems to be affixed to the body of the car itself, generally on the rear ( the " Jesus fish " and its " Darwin fish " counterpart are popular examples ).

Variants known as " candle matches " were made by Savaresse and Merckel in 1836.

Variants include, in order of migration, Havaii, the old name for Raiatea in French Polynesia ; the far better known Hawaii in the United States, Avaiki in the Cook Islands and Niue and Hawaiki in Aotearoa, New Zealand.

Variants using British pattern turrets were known as " General Grant ", named after U. S. General Ulysses S. Grant.

Although he wrote for many instruments, Smith Brindle was perhaps best known for his solo guitar music, especially El Polifemo de Oro ( 1956 ), written for Julian Bream, as well as five sonatas ( 1948, 1976, 1978, 1979 ), Variants on two themes of J. S. Bach ( 1970 ), Memento in two movements ( 1973 ), Do not go gentle ... ( 1974 ), November Memories ( 1974 ), Four Poems of Garcia Lorca ( 1975 ), Preludes and Fantasies ( 1980 ) and The Prince of Venosa ( 1994 ).

Variants are known from the USA in the 1880s and Australia in the 1850s.

Variants of Puppy Linux are known as puplets.

Variants of this deity were known as Tláloc to the Aztecs and Chaac to the Mayas.

Variants are often known by the localities in which they are found.

Variants of this game are played both wider afield in Europe, for example Spain where it is known as juego de la rana, the Basque Country where it is known as igel jokoa or the jeu de la grenouille in France.

Variants of the following event have occurred in Europe from time to time:

In addition to the Passat hatchbacks and Variants ( estate / wagon ), there was also a conventional three-box saloon, which until the 1985 facelift was sold as the Volkswagen Santana in Europe.

Variants of mincemeat are found in Australia, Brittany, Canada, northern Europe, Ireland, South Africa, the UK and the United States.

Variants of the name include: Alfonso ( Italian and Spanish ), Alfons ( Catalan, Dutch, German, Polish and Scandinavian ), Afonso ( Portuguese and Galician ), Affonso ( Ancient Portuguese ), Alphonse, Alfonse ( Italian, French and English ), Αλφόνσος Alphonsos ( Greek ), Alphonsus ( Latin ), Alphons ( Dutch ), Alfonsu in ( Leonese ), Alfonsas ( Lithuanian ).

Variants include Alexis with the Russian Aleksey and its Ukrainian counterpart Oleksa / Oleksiy deriving from this form.

Variants of TKS and TK-3 Polish tankettes up-armed with 20 mm ( 23 – 26 vehicles ) were operationally deployed in the invasion of Poland.

A Rolls-Royce Armoured Car # Variants | Fordson armoured car waits outside Baghdad while negotiations for an armistice take place between British officials and representatives of the Iraqi rebel government.

Variants of the song exist to accommodate the zed pronunciation.

Variants commonly alter the starting position, restrict certain moves, or assign special value to certain dice rolls, but in some geographic regions even the rules and directions of the checkers movement change, rendering the game fundamentally different.

Variants include half-revolution ( and other fractional-revolution ) types.

Variants of football have been codified for reduced-sized teams ( i. e. Five-a-side football ) play in non-field environments ( i. e. Beach soccer, Indoor soccer, and Futsal ) and for teams with disabilities ( i. e. Paralympic association football ).

Variants of the 8088 with more than 5 MHz maximum clock frequency include the 8088-2, which was fabricated using Intel's new enhanced nMOS process called HMOS and specified for a maximum frequency of 8 MHz.

Variants include the Double Lindy and Triple Lindy.

Variants include withdrawing the weapon while pointing it downwards, then bringing it up towards the target ; the same method but pointing the weapon upwards, and bringing it down towards the target ; and the cross-body draw.

Variants of existing floating-point instructions for arithmetic, compare and conditional move were added to operate on this data type in a SIMD fashion.

Variants and hybrids include the freeform-like Jack FM ( mentioned below under Freeform Rock ) and the " Mix " formats mentioned below under Oldies.

Variants of Nim have been played since ancient times.