1.   Punters throw coins, trying to score a hit in the tin trays.

2.   On the second round half the squadron scored hits, and by the end of the third only Finlayson, Delaforce and Rogers had failed.

3.   Director Kathleen Conlin scores a hit with her casting of Victoria Adams as the romantically disappointed Polly Browne.

4.   E-mail Battleship comes with explosive noises and digitized fireballs that appear on the game-board grid when you score a hit on the enemy fleet.

5.   Even DNA fingerprinting scored no hits in the databases.

6.   If you scored a hit, the plane might crash into some nearby landmark, like the Hay Adams Hotel or the Treasury Department.

7.   Lyons, who moved from the Valley when he got the job but recently has moved back, scored a hit and became a pre-game analyst.

8.   Nyro, alas, never scored a hit with her own versions, but kept writing hits for others.

9.   Occasionally, the industry has scored big hits like Herceptin for breast cancer and Gleevec for chronic myeloid leukemia and GIST, for a rare form of intestinal cancer.

10.   Rootsy groups like Blues Traveler and the Dave Matthews Band scored hits.