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(uncountable) A game of chance for two or more players, who mark off numbers on a grid as they are announced by the caller; the game is won by the first person to call out "bingo!" or "house!" after crossing off all numbers on the grid or in one line of the grid.
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Alternative form of bingo bango bongo [A golf game, in which each round of play consists of points being awarded to the first player to land their ball on the green, the player whose ball is closest to the hole (after all of the balls are on the green), and the first player to hit their ball into the hole.]
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(figuratively, by extension) A list of events considered possible to occur in the context of a larger event, especially when referring to an event considered unlikely.
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A codebreaking game in which each player attempts to deduce the other's secret number or word.
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(vulgar) Synonym of buzzword bingo
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A humorous bingo-style game where participants prepare bingo cards with buzzwords and tick them off as they are uttered during an event, such as a meeting or speech. The goal of the game is to tick off a predetermined number of words in a row and then yell "Bingo!".
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(bingo) The person who stands at the front of the hall and announces the numbers.
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A game in which each player acts out a word or phrase, usually based on puns of each syllable and without speaking, for the others to guess.
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An outdoor game where players attempt to predict the square of a numbered grid on which a wandering chicken will defecate.
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(bingo) A traditional call for the number sixty-six.
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(uncountable) A guessing game in which players guess words that rhyme with a clue word, seeking a word that is kept secret or concealed.
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(dice games) Alternative form of d100 [(dice games) A die roll used for example in some role-playing games and wargames to generate a random number between 1 and 100. The most common method is to roll 2 differently colored d10s, where each color has been designated to represent one of the two digits. (Rolls of 10 are treated as the digit 0. Double-0 can be treated as zero or 100, depending on the context.)]
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(dice games) A die roll used for example in some role-playing games and wargames to generate a random number between 1 and 1000. The most common method is to roll 3 differently colored d10s, where each color has been designated to represent one of the three digits.
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(dice games) A die with six sides.
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(countable, proscribed by some; standard in British English) A die.
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(games) A guessing game, similar to charades, in which players act out, or silently pantomime, words that rhyme with a clue word. The objective is to guess a concealed word that rhymes with the clue.
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(uncountable) The game of duplicate Scrabble.
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A counting game in which players take turns speaking the next number in sequence, but having to replace certain multiples with the words "fizz" and "buzz".
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A hasty game of cards or similar.
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(backgammon) To beat by a gammon (without the opponent bearing off a stone).
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(bingo) The number eight.
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(poker slang) A gut-shot straight.
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(uncountable, games) A guessing game where one has to guess the word an opponent is thinking of by guessing one letter at a time, and involving the gradual drawing of a stick figure hanging from the gallows.
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(obsolete, games) The game of blind man's buff.
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(Britain, games, obsolete, uncountable) The game of blind man's buff.
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(games) A game where players have to guess what one can see, based on the initial letter of the object.
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A logic-based word game in which players attempt to deduce each other's secret words.
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(bingo) A traditional call for the number one.
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A number puzzle involving linked pairs of numbers
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a game of chance similar to bingo
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(bingo) A traditional call for the number ten.
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An activity that benefits from having many things to work with or on.
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(historical, uncountable) A game in which players compete to pull an object from out of a roll of writing.
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(poker, chiefly of a flop) Composed entirely of different suits.
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(cartomancy) The twenty-fifth Lenormand card.
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(uncountable) A game of chance, in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered red and black spaces, the one on which it stops indicating the result of a variety of wagers permitted by the game.
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A board game in which players draw letter tiles and take turns to make interlocking words like a crossword, scoring points according to the letters played and their positions on the board.
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(gambling, dice games) in the game of craps, to roll a seven after having established the "point".
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(games) A children's game where players must carry out only those commands that are preceded by the utterance "Simon says".
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(games) A children's game in which players take turns to place S's and O's on a grid, collecting points by creating an "SOS" sequence.
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A spoken parlour game in which one player chooses an object or concept and the others have twenty yes-no questions to identify what it is.
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(dated) A word game in which the players are given a set of letters and must form as many words as possible from subsets of those letters.
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(bridge) A squeeze in which a trick is offered to the defenders but whichever wins the trick is then endplayed.
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