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(UK, slang) Excellent.
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A game, popular at Halloween, in which players try to pick up apples out of a large basin of water, using only their mouths.
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boys' game of beating each other with gloves or leather while hopping
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A traditional game in which balls are thrown to break the pipe in the mouth of a figurine resembling an old woman.
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One of the projections inside a dice tower that serve to deflect the die unpredictably.
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A Native American game resembling lacrosse.
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(US, vulgar) Ball-breaker.
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(uncountable) A Welsh team sport related to hockey, hurling, shinty, and bandy.
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A safe zone in the children's games of tag and hide-and-go-seek.
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(idiomatic) A cafe or similar establishment where musical performances are given and the performers are then paid with money placed in a basket by members of the audience.
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The racket used in this game.
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A children's game similar to hide and seek in which children who have been "caught" may escape if they see another hider beckon to them.
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A children's game, a variant of prisoners' bars.
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(Yorkshire, games) A shot in marbles made with the taw held against the belly.
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A traditional children's toy consisting of a wooden cup with a handle, and a ball attached to the cup by a string.
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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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(uncountable) A game of chance played with dice; chuck-a-luck.
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A game where one tries to snap at a swinging cherry with one's mouth.
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(Australia) A children's game in which one player tosses a tennis ball at other players who vigorously try to avoid being hit, the person being hit then becoming the person with the ball.
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(games) A children's game similar to tag in which players try to run from one zone to another without being caught by the catchers.
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(games, sports) A team sport originating in Central Asia, where the players, all on horseback, try to place an animal carcass into a goal.
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From the mid 1900s, a game at a fair or party in which people walk around a numbered circle along to music. When the music is stopped, the caller draws a number from a jar and whoever is standing on or closest to that number that number wins a cake.
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(pool) A form of auction in which people invest in a player's success
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Synonym of shinty (“stick used to hit the ball in the game of shinty”)
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(historical) A curved stick used to strike the ball in the game of pall mall.
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Alternative form of cambuca [(historical) A 12th-century English game somewhat similar to golf in that it was played with a wooden ball similar to a golf ball.]
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Alternative form of cambuca [(historical) A 12th-century English game somewhat similar to golf in that it was played with a wooden ball similar to a golf ball.]
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A children's game in which one player (the "cat") attempts to break through a ring of players to catch another player (the "mouse") in the centre.
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(tic-tac-toe) A tie game. Comes from the concept that a cat cannot catch its own tail just like a player in tic-tac-toe cannot win a game that is already tied.
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tag, the children's game
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Someone who participates in chess boxing.
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A children's game in which two participants hold a string of rubber bands tied in a circle with their feet and a third participant is challenged to make a certain series of moves in relation to the string successfully.
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Alternative form of chukker [One of the six playing periods, each 7½ minutes long, of a game of polo.]
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A sport or game played by the Cherokee and other Native Americans in the Carolinas, which involved rolling stone disks across the ground and throwing spears at them in an attempt to land the spear as close to the stopped stone as possible.
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A children's prank in which a person forms a circle with their thumb and forefinger held below the waist, and anybody caught looking at the circle is subjected to some kind of penalty.
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(uncountable) A game similar to leapfrog.
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A game in which trinkets are set upon sticks, to be thrown at by the players.
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(Britain, games) A game for two players in which the participants each have a horse-chestnut (known as a "conker") suspended from a length of string, and take turns to strike their opponent's conker with their own with the object of destroying the opponent's conker before their own is destroyed.
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A children's game in which one player is enclosed by a circle of others holding a rope.
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A game played by schoolchildren in which the "robbers" have to steal "gold" and return it to their "base" without being caught by the "cops" and taken to "jail". When in "jail", "prisoners" can be "freed" by other "robbers".
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An outdoor game where players attempt to predict the square of a numbered grid on which a wandering cow will defecate.
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A children's game, with chasing and mock battles, in which the players assume the traditional roles of cowboys and American Indians.
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A game played on a trampoline, where one player (the "egg") curls into a ball with arms around their knees, and other players bounce on the trampoline in an attempt to make the "egg" lose their grip and uncurl.
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Alternative form of crokinole [A game, popular in Canada, in which wooden discs are flicked towards the centre of a circular board.]
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A Jamaican children's game resembling dodgeball.
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(dated, 19th century) A child's game, similar to jacks.
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(games) A cup inside which a dice is put to be rolled.
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(UK, dialect, uncountable) A game much like hockey, played in an open field.
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(backgammon) A cube used to record the number of points at stake in a game, bearing on its six sides the powers of two from 2 to 64.
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A marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games.
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A children's game in which one participant walks around a circle of others, designating each of them as a "duck" until selecting one as the "goose", who must then chase the selector.
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The national game of Madagascar, a board game similar to checkers/draughts
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(obsolete) A counter, used in various games.
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A game in which the players snatch raisins out of burning brandy and swallow them blazing.
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A parlour game in which players race paper fish by fanning them with air.
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An old children's game in which one player tries to catch others as they run from one goal to another.
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A children's game, a form of tag in which the player designated as the ghost attempts to catch the others before they can reach base.
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Alternative form of gilli-danda. [A game played in several Asian countries, in which a large stick is used to hit a small oval-shaped piece of wood. It is played much like tipcat, baseball, and cricket.]
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A game played in several Asian countries, in which a large stick is used to hit a small oval-shaped piece of wood. It is played much like tipcat, baseball, and cricket.
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(countable) A board for playing the game of go.
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(roller derby) The situation in which the jammer laps the opposing team's jammer, scoring five points.
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A mathematical game for two players, involving the turn-by-turn removal of line segments.
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A party game in which a player has to walk along a horizontal pole, covered in ham (normally wafer-thin ham), set above a swimming pool, and not fall off.
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(slang) A carnival game which guarantees a winner.
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(uncountable) The game of tag, or it, in which the player attempting to catch the others is called "he".
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(games) A game where the players have to hide and one has to seek them out.
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(slang, obsolete) A loaded die that yields high numbers.
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(uncountable) A game in which players guess a rhyming phrase, given definitions or synonyms of the words.
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A carnival game in which the player attempts to throw hoops around pegs.
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A child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground.
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(dated) a children's game in which a blindfolded person had to guess who was hitting them.
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A children's game in which players must traverse a room or area without stepping on the floor or ground.
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A children's game in which a blindfolded player tries to guess who hit him.
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A circle game in which the players have to pass a slipper, or other object, without the person designated "it" discovering it.
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(games, archaic) A children's game of hide and seek, so called from the cry when one is found.
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A drinking game based on correctly calling out the numbers of spots marked on one's own face and those of other players, further spots being added when a mistake is made.
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a game of strategy played with pyramidal pieces
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The person who chases and tries to catch the other players in the playground game of tag.
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A game where players take turns to remove wooden blocks from a stack formed brickwise, the loser being the player whose actions cause the tower to fall.
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(obsolete) A mediaeval sport resembling hockey.
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(South Africa, countable) One of the wooden pins thrown in the game of jukskei.
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A game played by children, similar to tag.
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(Australia, games, two-up) A piece of flat wood used to throw the coins in a game of two-up.
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(games) A children's game similar to tag, the object being for the person who is "it" to catch and kiss another of the participants, who then subsequently becomes "it".
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A variety of duck, duck, goose, in which a successful catcher can claim a kiss (in the middle of the ring of players) from the picker
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Obsolete form of lansquenet (card game) [(countable, historical) Any of a class of German mercenaries of the 15th and 16th centuries, most of whom were pikemen and foot soldiers.]
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(UK, Nottinghamshire) A variation of the kick the can game.
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(obsolete, in the plural) An old game in England, played by throwing pieces of wood at a stake set in the ground.
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A game involving throwing pieces of wood at a stake.
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A type of charm designed to bring good luck, consisting of a ball containing a mixture of herbs and other magical ingredients.
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A gambling game played by the Hadza people, in which pieces of bark are thrown to see how they will land.
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An African board game, still played regularly.
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(uncountable) A certain game of dominoes in which four dominoes (the 4-3, 5-2, 6-1, and double blank), called matadors, may be played at any time in any way.
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(obsolete, nonce word) A children's game of swinging on ropes or similar until dizzy.
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Pogs, a game that was popular with children in the 1990s, originally played with the flat circular cardboard caps from packaged milk.
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(games) A children's game in which two players keep an object away from a third player (who is in between them) by throwing it past that player.
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(UK, historical games) A children's dogpile game played in Oxfordshire and other areas of Britain.
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(archaic) A game of Scottish origin in which one person would try to guess the hand in which another person was holding an object.
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The shell game, or thimblerig.
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A children's counting game in which the fists are bumped together.
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A traditional English children's game, in which a rhyme is chanted as the players file, in pairs, through an arch formed by two other players' clasped hands. Those caught when the hands descend then form another adjacent arch.
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(uncountable) The game itself.
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A game in which players attempt to remove sticks from a scattered pile without disturbing any stick other than the one currently being removed.
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A game where one group has to keep an object, normally a ball, within their group and away from another group or individual.
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(games) A children's game involving pinning a piece of material on a specified spot while blindfolded.
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(by extension) The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.
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A game in which coins are thrown at a mark, the person who throws nearest having the right of tossing all the coins, and keeping those which come down head uppermost.
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A tag game played by children; a possible predecessor of the game of British bulldog.
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Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.
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A game in which two teams chase and capture any opponents running from their home area.
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A children's game in which someone in the centre tries to capture other players' bases as they change places.
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A children's game in which one player stands in front of a line with their eyes closed, and the other players must approach the line sneakily without being spotted when the player at the line says "red light" and opens their eyes.
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A children's game played by two lines of players, with players sent one at a time to the opposing team's line to attempt to pull apart their linked hands.
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A place where some sports or exhibitions take place; notably a circular or comparable arena, such as a boxing ring or a circus ring; hence the field of a political contest.
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Any of various children's games where participants form a ring or circle, often with hands joined.
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A game in which rings are thrown onto pegs or posts.
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(uncountable, games) A game of marbles where players attempt to knock each other's marbles out of a ring drawn on the ground.
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(US) A children's game, a variation of tag, where each side has a designated "jail" to hold captured players from the other team.
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Alternative form of ring toss [A game in which rings are thrown onto pegs or posts.]
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Alternative form of roshambo [(games) Synonym of rock paper scissors]
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To play a round of Rock–paper–scissors.
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(neologism) An extension of the children's game of rock paper scissors, with two additional handshapes: lizard and Spock.
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(obsolete, uncountable) A gambling game played with small balls on a table.
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(games) Synonym of rock paper scissors
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Synonym of Russian pyramid
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(sports, games) Ellipsis of schlockey schtick.; A playing stick used in schlockey [(sports, games) A playing stick used in schlockey]
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A children's game in which players with their eyes shut try to guess which of a group of seven people pressed down their thumbs.
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(darts, often capitalized) A kind of dart game in which players are gradually eliminated ("shanghaied"), usually either by failing to reach a certain score in 3 quick throws or during a competition to hit a certain prechosen number and then be the first to hit the prechosen numbers of the other players.
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(craps) The player throwing the dice.
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(uncountable) The game of shuffleboard.
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(uncountable, chiefly chess) An informal form of chess played without a clock.
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(UK) A children's game in which the players position themselves in a circle and each place one hand in the centre (normally on top of a table or other item of furniture). An ordinal number or another word such as "last" or "penultimate" is then called out by someone and whoever draws their hand away from the circle at that position has their hand slapped by the other players.
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(games) A children's game in which some participants lie on the floor and attempt to stay motionless, while others try to make them move without physically touching them.
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(obsolete) The game of shuffleboard.
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The ace of spades in ombre and quadrille.
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A croupier's tool for turning up cards in a casino.
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(in the plural) a game played with such pegs, pushpin.
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A game in which players attempt to remove flat, carved sticks of ivory or wood (the individual spillikins of meaning 1.) from a scattered pile without disturbing any stick other than the one currently being removed.
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(games) A party game in which the players sit in a circle and spin a bottle in the middle, having to kiss (or perform some other dare with) the person at whom the bottle points when it stops.
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A children's game in which one person, in the centre of a circle of players, points and says "SPLAT!" at another player. That player then ducks down and the two players either side of them point and say "SPLAT!". The slowest to react is and eliminated from the game. The final is settled by a Mexican standoff.
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(chiefly Australia) a car game in which players try and spot yellow cars, especially popular among Australian children
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An old parlour game in which small discs (called squails) are snapped from the edge of the table to a centre mark called the process.
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(tiddlywinks) The round disk used to play winks in the game of tiddlywinks.
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(UK, historical games) A dogpile game played in Cheshire and other areas of Britain.
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(Australia, games) A children's dogpile game.
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A game similar to mumblety peg.
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A game similar to mumblety peg
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A variant of the children's game of touch or tag in which a tagged player stands with arms and legs apart, and people crawling under such a player cannot be tagged.
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Any backgammon-like board game, played on a board with two rows of 12 vertical markings called "points".
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A children's chasing game in which one player (known as "it") attempts to touch another, who then becomes "it".
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The player who tries to catch others in the game of tag.
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(Philippines, gambling) A fish bowl or barrel-shaped container where balls used in a raffle or a lottery are placed. In the case of a raffle, tickets may also be used. Can be made out of wire, glass, clear plastic, etc. Often has a handle, which, when rotated, mixes up the balls or tickets.
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Any of several Italian ball games resembling squash or tennis, the players striking the ball with a tambourine-like implement.
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(card games, board games) To turn or flip a card or playing piece to remind players that it has already been used that turn (by analogy to "tapping," in the sense of drawing on to the point of temporary exhaustion, the resources or abilities represented by the card).
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(Manglish) to guess the answer to a multiple-choice question
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Alternative form of tennikoit [A sport resembling tennis, played with a rubber ring instead of a ball.]
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A game in which children stand in a row, joining hands, and in which the outer one, still holding his neighbour, runs between the others.
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Alternative form of tic-tac-toe [(games) A game in which two players take turns placing circles and crosses on a 3x3 grid and attempt to obtain three of the same symbols in a straight line.]
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Alternative spelling of tic-tac-toe [(games) A game in which two players take turns placing circles and crosses on a 3x3 grid and attempt to obtain three of the same symbols in a straight line.]
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Alternative spelling of tic-tac-toe [(games) A game in which two players take turns placing circles and crosses on a 3x3 grid and attempt to obtain three of the same symbols in a straight line.]
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A kind of backgammon played with both men and pegs.
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Alternative spelling of tic-tac-toe [(games) A game in which two players take turns placing circles and crosses on a 3x3 grid and attempt to obtain three of the same symbols in a straight line.]
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(games) A game played using dominoes.
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(Ireland, UK) The children's game of tag.
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(Australia, New Zealand, North Island) The children′s game tag.
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(games) A children's game similar to hide and seek, with the addition of a target such as a flag.
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(countable) The wooden piece used in this game.
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Alternative form of tic-tac-toe [(games) A game in which two players take turns placing circles and crosses on a 3x3 grid and attempt to obtain three of the same symbols in a straight line.]
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Alternative spelling of tic-tac-toe [(games) A game in which two players take turns placing circles and crosses on a 3x3 grid and attempt to obtain three of the same symbols in a straight line.]
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A lottery in which winning tickets are drawn from a revolving drum.
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(New Zealand) a carnival game in which marbles were thrown at holes or at buttons on the ends of sticks
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The children's game of tag.
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(chess) Of an opening, having many traps that can be played against opponents unfamiliar with the lines.
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Alternative form of ticktack (“kind of backgammon”) [A kind of backgammon played with both men and pegs.]
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Alternative form of ticktack (“kind of backgammon”) [A kind of backgammon played with both men and pegs.]
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The game of trucco or lawn billiards.
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(Australia, obsolete) A succession of heads thrown in a game of two-up.
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A party game that requires several players on a single mat to straddle four colored rows of dots in randomly selected positions without falling.
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Alternative form of twoccer [(Britain) A person who engages in twoccing.]
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A (modern) ball game, descended from tlachtli.
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(card games, slang) A playing card with the rank of seven.
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A children's game in which one player takes the role of the wolf and the others repeatedly ask what the time is, taking steps forward accordingly (so "three o'clock" means three steps forward); finally the wolf calls "dinner time!" and chases the other players, a player becoming the wolf for the next round if caught. Alternatively, the last player to be caught becomes the wolf.
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A traditional indigenous Australian cooperative game similar to keepie-uppie and footbag.
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A variant of the game of tag in which tagged players become "zombies" and join the pursuit.
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