What happens if a game ends on extra innings and a player coming home to end the game, doesn’t step on home plate?
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Scenario: No one on base. 2 outs. Batter hits a homerun. However, while rounding the bases, completely misses stepping on second base. Now, I understand that being a home run, it's a dead ball, and the runner can run without liability. But say he misses second, touches third, hits home, and goes to the dugout. What happens in this case?
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Suppose that there is a man standing on the origin of the real line and plays heads or tails. Everytime he gets a head, he moves $1$ unit right and everytime he gets a tail, he moves $1$ unit left. What is the expected value of the number of his steps when he reached to $-7$ or $10$ for the first time? A friend of mine asked me this question today and my approach to solve it was quite complex. So any help is appreciated.
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I've read the rules for determining Wins, Losses and Saves for pitchers, and I've never been able to make heads or tails of it.  Is there an easier way to explain it?
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I've had a couple of encounters so far where I stumbled into enemies that were higher level than expected and gotten wiped out. At the game over screen, I chose the option "Continue". After doing so, I didn't notice any negative consequences. I was plopped back just a few metres from the area I died, and was free to continue on as if nothing had happened. Am I missing something? Is there some negative effect from a party wipe?
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In Sorry, if you are 7 spaces away from your Home and you draw a 12 (and your other pawns are in Start or Home), do you have to move past your safety zone like you're going around the board a second time or do you forfeit your turn?
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If you construct a path from a ladder to an end card with a blue or green door in the path, the end card is flipped. If the card is the gold, all dwarves on that colored team (blue or green) win, as does the boss and profiteer.  What happens if you construct a path from a ladder to an end card while both doors are in the path?
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Today in a match the setter set the ball too low for me to spike it, so I just dinked it over.  The bottom of the ball was lower than the top of the net at the point where I made contact.  When the defender made contact, again, the bottom of the ball was lower than the top of the net (the top of the ball was over the top of the net though).  I felt that this wasn't technically a block and that he shouldn't have been allowed to hit it a second time, but I wasn't sure so I just let it go.  Was this a legal block or should it have been our point when he hit it a second time in a row?  Edit:  I don't think I was clear about the part where, after I hit the ball, the ball travelled over the net onto the other team's side of the court.  The other player did not reach over the net so there is no issue there.  It's just an issue of whether or not their first contact was a block or a hit.  I believe it was not a block but I can't find a specific ruling to address it.
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The game can only end when the Snitch has been caught, or by mutual agreement of the two teams' Captains; the latter is very rare, however, as one team would have to lose. (source: HP Wikia on Golden Snitch)   Is there an example from canon of this resolution to the game ever happening?
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I had a player who wanted to help someone else stand up before his turn starts so he can reach the enemy. Is this written in the D&amp;D 5e rules? If not, how would you rule this?  I am thinking of using the helping character's movement instead.
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Edit: I originally asked this question in 2016. This was before the scandals of the Astros and Red Sox came to light, where the teams allegedly used devices such as cameras, smartwatches, and trash can lids. As well as coordinating efforts with non-players. My question never pertained to such methods of sign-stealing, as I believe it should be obvious why this is wrong.      The question was more about what made it unethical for a player to attempt to manually analyze and decipher an opposing team's signs, using nothing more than his IQ of the game, skill, and experience.   My question pertains mostly to baseball, but I imagine it is just as relevant in other sports as well. Every so often I hear about a disgruntled team, accusing the other team of stealing signs. I don't get it. What actually makes it wrong?  This just seems like any other aspect of the competition that is fair game. For example, if a pitcher inadvertently "tips" his pitches, and the other team is smart enough to pick up on it and use that knowledge to their advantage, then it is generally considered a flaw of the pitcher. It is now his responsibility to correct the problem, and improve his skills by becoming more deceptive and unpredictable. I wouldn't blame the opposing team for cheating; I would say they played smart baseball. I'm having a hard time understanding how "decrypting" signals is any different?  Additionally, the coach who creates the signals does so with the intention to obfuscate them as much as possible. Obviously this is to maximize competitive advantage. So does that not imply competition even within this narrow aspect of the game?  Someone help me out please. What makes stealing signs wrong that teams rightfully take exception and feel cheated?
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I have seen the terms on scoreboard like: "retired out" or "retired not out". What does it mean and what is the different between there?  Reference:   Mohammad Hafeez was retired out in ICC Champions Trophy Warm-up Matches, 2013 vs  Gordon Greenidge was retired not out in 5th Test vs .   Also I have seen "retired out" only on practice matches. Is there any case of "retired out" in international matches?
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According to the PHB (p 182) after a 10 foot movement the player is able to make a long jump whose length is equal to their strength score.  Each foot jumped costs 1 foot of movement.  I have a character with a speed of 25 who can jump 30 (due to the jump spell tripling their normal jump distance of 10).  What happens when he runs out of movement?   The player moves the full distance of the jump The player stops moving when they run out of movement and fall The player moves up to their movement speed, then finishes the jump on their next turn
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We had an incident during a recent game where a player was tackled causing him to loose his boot. The referee deemed the tackle fair and failed to award a free kick. Our player indicated to the referee that he had lost his boot by waving it in the air. The referee indicated to our player that the play should continue. The opposing player continued, clear on goal and scored with our player chasing the opponent with only 1 boot on.  This does not seem fair. Can somebody indicated if any laws of the game have been broken? I have looked at law 4, but can only find mention of a goal being allowable if a boot has been immediately lost.
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Down to the last two rounds in rubber bridge.  Declarer claims remaining tricks only to discover that he has miscounted.  He claims the two tricks with Q-10; however, opponent holds the J and depending on how he plays the cards could lose one trick.  How is this handled?  Is scoring affected?  Consider the same scenario only opponent holds the Q.  Do opponents just get the one trick and game is scored as usual?
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I had a little conversation one of my football friends and we had this interesting situation come up during the conversation.   As I understand the , the offending player should not be closer to the goal than the second-to-last defender.   But, what if at the point of the player receiving the ball, one of the defenders go out of play? Like for example, the goal keeper or the other defender is injured or goes out of the field. Would it still be considered an offside because there is only a single defender between the offending player and the goal? If yes, why can't this rule be exploited to effectively nullify the goal scored, if any?
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Why do players sometimes run after the ball after they score a goal?
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If a batsman hits the ball inside the ground and begins running between the wickets and now the ball is thrown back to the Fielder/Bowler/WK(FBWK)    If the FBWK catches the ball in one hand and hits the stumps with other hand before the batsman gets reached, is this a run out? If the FBWK catches the ball in hands and hits the stumps with leg or any other part of his body before the batsman gets reached, is this a run out?   This scenario can occur, when the ball was thrown far away from stumps.