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Cricket is a bat-and-ball sport contested by two teams, usually of 11 players each. A cricket match is played on a grass field, roughly oval in shape, at the center of which is a flat strip of ground 22 yards (20.12 m) long, called a cricket pitch. Cricket has drawn many comparisons to the American pastime of baseball. While a home run is the best hit in baseball, the "sixer" in cricket gives six runs on one hit.

Checkers, also called English draughts, American checkers, or straight checkers, is a board game played on an eight-by-eight board with 12 pieces on each side that may only move and capture diagonally. Computer programs, first developed in the 1950s, have proven stronger checkers players than their human counterparts. It has now been proven mathematically that if neither player makes a mistake, the game will always end in a draw.