Small rooms, probably for cards, opened off on either side.

The operand need not extend across the entire operand column of either the header card or continuation cards but may end with the comma following any parameter.

Number-cards count as their natural value ; the jack, queen, and king ( also known as " face cards " or " pictures ") count as 10 ; aces are valued as either 1 or 11 according to the player's choice.

After the contract has been established, the play of the cards proceeds as in most trick-taking card games until all thirteen tricks have been played with the result that the declaring side has either succeeded or failed in fulfilling their part of the contract.

The cards may be dealt one at a time, or in batches of more than one card ; and either the entire pack or a determined number of cards are dealt out.

Most games begin with a specific layout of cards, called a tableau, and the object is then either to construct a more elaborate final layout, or to clear the tableau and / or the draw pile or stock by moving all cards to one or more " discard " or " foundation " piles.

Drinking card games are, true to their name, a subset of drinking games using cards, in which the object in playing the game is either to drink or to force others to drink.

All Italian-Canadians were denied RAI programming by RAI International's removal of its programming from the Canadian marketplace, a move intended to create a public outcry and a threat that Canadians would resort to using satellite viewing cards obtained via the US in order to watch RAI, even though these cards were either grey market or black market, according to different analyses ( see below ).

Most EISA cards produced were either SCSI or network cards.

) have cards that allow guests to earn either points ( redeemable for discounts, future stays or other prizes ) or airline miles ( Hilton's HHonors program allows guests to earn both points and miles on the same stay, the only program to date that does so ).

Games of the DOS and early Windows eras typically required compatibility with either Ad Lib or SoundBlaster audio cards.

They can either be forced to arrange the order of their cards before any betting begins (" choose before "), or they can also be allowed to choose cards in later rounds based on information found in earlier rounds (" choose after ").

Before modern computing, researchers requiring random numbers would either generate them through various means ( dice, cards, roulette wheels, etc.

If the player fouls his hand, meaning that the low hand outranks his high hand, or that there are an incorrect number of cards in each hand, there will be a penalty: either re-arrangement of the hand according to house rules or forfeiture of the hand.

A player can either play high pair behind and small pair in front, or else two pair behind and high cards in front.

The objective of the partner is either to add to the total points in meld or to pass trick-winning cards.

Some virtual cards offer PIN < nowiki > less </ nowiki > Dialing, either by dialling a number unique to the customer, or by recognising the telephone number which originated the call by Caller ID and relating it to the appropriate account.

* 2 ( 3 ) denies four or more cards headed by a Queen in either major suit.

In either case, a responder who rebids notrump over a response in a major suit promises four cards of the other major suit.

This conventional bid shows a weak hand with at least four cards in each major suit, asking the Notrump bidder to choose between the major suits at the cheapest level by either passing the 2 bid or correcting to 2.

The cards were then processed using standard IBM punch card equipment, including an IBM 650 computer.

The Elektronika MK-52 calculator ( using the extended B3-34 command set, and featuring internal EEPROM memory for storing programs and external interface for EEPROM cards and other periphery ) was used in Soviet spacecraft program ( for Soyuz TM-7 flight ) as a backup of the board computer.

Some tracks were composed using Eno and Peter Schmidt's Oblique Strategies cards: " Boys Keep Swinging " entailed band members swapping instruments, " Move On " used the chords from Bowie's early composition " All the Young Dudes " played backwards, and " Red Money " took backing tracks from " Sister Midnight ", a piece previously composed with Iggy Pop.

Players win resources if they are able to fend off the pirate attack ( which depends on the number rolled by the dice, as well as the number of warships in the defending player's possession ; warships are created from using Knight cards on existing ships ), but lose resources if they are unsuccessful.

Players move using transportation cards.

Three passes were required to translate source code to the " IT " language, then to compile the IT statements into SOAP assembly language, and finally to produce the object program, which could then be loaded into the machine to run the program ( using punched cards for data input, and outputting results onto punched cards ).

In the early days of graphical web browsers, graphics cards with 8-bit buffers ( allowing only 256 colors ) were common and it was fairly common to make GIF images using the websafe palette.

It was a general-purpose programmable computer, employing punch cards for input and a steam engine for power, using the positions of gears and shafts to represent numbers.

Eckert's publication of Punched Card Methods in Scientific Computation in 1940, described punch card techniques sufficiently advanced to solve some differential equations or perform multiplication and division using floating point representations, all on punched cards and unit record machines.

Machines such as the Z3, the Atanasoff – Berry Computer, the Colossus computers, and the ENIAC were built by hand using circuits containing relays or valves ( vacuum tubes ), and often used punched cards or punched paper tape for input and as the main ( non-volatile ) storage medium.

*: 1880s: Herman Hollerith invents an electro-mechanical data tabulator using punch cards as a machine readable medium.

Early systems could not support one, since programs were prepared using flowcharts, entering programs with punched cards ( or paper tape, etc.

Drastically more accurate timings could be achieved by using dedicated hardware extensions and control-loop cards.

LTTE had cloned credit cards using PIN and card numbers obtained from unsuspecting card holders in the United Kingdom, and funds were transferred out of their accounts later.

Amenities offered have also changed, with motels that once touted color television as a luxury now emphasising wireless internet, flatscreen television, pay-per-view or in-room movies, microwave ovens and minibar fridges in rooms which may be reserved online using credit cards and secured against intruders with key cards which expire as soon as a client checks out.

The Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1279 ) scholar Ouyang Xiu ( 1007 – 1072 ) asserted that playing cards and card games existed at least since the mid-Tang Dynasty and associated their invention with the simultaneous development of using sheets or pages instead of paper rolls as a writing medium.

Omaha hold ' em ( also known as Omaha holdem or simply Omaha ) is a community card poker game similar to Texas hold ' em, where each player is dealt four cards and must make his or her best hand using exactly two of them, plus exactly three of the five community cards.

For example, a player may have both a draw to a flush and a full house using different combinations of cards.

For example, with a board of, a player with cannot play a flush using the ace as would be possible in Texas hold ' em ; the player must play two cards from in-hand and only three from the board ( so instead, this player's best hand is two pair: ).

Robinson asked Herford to escort him to the club's lavatory before they sat down for a highball and a game of cards.

Another woman, addressing Christmas cards, said to her husband: `` We sent them one last year but they didn't send us one, so they probably won't send us one this year because they'll think we won't send them one because they didn't last year, don't you think, or shall we ''??

Different cards are used for males and females, and a corner is clipped from the cards of adults, and of children when they reach puberty.

In that case they must choose which hand to play behind before the second cards are drawn.

It also means that in the case of an irregularity or dispute over a hand before the cards are returned to the board, they can be reviewed and it can be determined who played which cards in what order.

Blocks (" records " in IBM's terminology ) of 88, 96, 880 and 960 were often used because they related to the fixed block size of punch cards.

Consequently, Bahá ' ís were unable to obtain government identification documents ( such as national identification cards, birth certificates, death certificates, marriage or divorce certificates, or passports ) necessary to exercise their rights in their country unless they lied about their religion, which conflicts with Bahá ' í religious principle.

The dealer takes all of the cards in the pack, arranges them so that they are in a uniform stack, and shuffles them.

The dealer holds the pack, face down, in one hand, and removes cards from the top of it with his or her other hand to distribute to the players, placing them face down on the table in front of the players to whom they are dealt.

It is also dishonest to try to see cards as they are dealt, or to take advantage of having seen a card.

It is helpful to fan one's cards out so that if they have corner indices all their values can be seen at once.

In fishing games, cards from the hand are played against cards in a layout on the table, capturing table cards if they match.

As an alternative to a school-sponsored Day of Silence opposing bullying of LGBT students, conservative Christians organized a Golden Rule Initiative, where they passed out cards saying " As a follower of Christ, I believe that all people are created in the image of God and therefore deserve love and respect.

However, the referendum was again marred by reports of vote rigging on the part of the French authorities, with some 10, 000 Somalis deported under the pretext that they did not have valid identity cards.

Progress cards, unlike the development cards they replace, can be played on the turn that they are drawn, and more than one progress card can be played per turn.

Players may not expand into the outlying islands, but by building ships so that they border the outlying islands, players may be awarded with victory points, development cards, or harbors that players may place on the coast of the main island at a later time.