But if further tests confirm its value, the game could become a formal treatment: to help ease your mind after a trauma, try to manipulate gently falling bricks.
As of January, he said, a new American president will face substantial political pressure to deploy a missile defense system, if further testing proves the system viable.
If further tests should prove that the placental cells are a satisfactory substitute for embryonic stem cells, the company's finding could influence the political debate.
If further tests reveal a broken bone, the Red Sox would lose a major catalyst at the top of their lineup.
If further testing confirms this, it means that, as the broken bone heals, the glue will disappear naturally.
If further tests confirm its advantages, travellers in America may soon find themselves looking at unexpected and baffling slide-shows when they pass through the airport.
Mexico had reported about 2,500 suspected cases as of Friday, but the number of real cases could turn out to be less than half the suspected number if further testing follows the same pattern as the original round.
But if further tests conclude that the radiation escaped from only one tube and there are no other surprises or problems, the officials said, Con Edison may be inclined to reopen the plant and not shut it, as some local officials and residents have urged.
If further testing reveals a DNA link between the remains in the martyrs' crypt and one of the skeletons discovered at the convent of Sant'Orsola, Vinceti says the project could then move into its "most exciting" phase – the reconstruction of the woman's face.
James Morris, a pathogen geneticist at Clemson University in South Carolina, wrote in an email that if further tests bear out these preliminary results, they could prove important to disease eradication efforts.
