(card games, dice games) A single point or spot on a playing card or die normally indicating it as the prime, i.e. first and forefront. (in playing cards, of that series)
Alternative form of baccarat (“French card game”) [(card games) A card game resembling chemin de fer with many forms - usually entailing the player(s) betting against two or three hands dealt - also bearing some similarities to blackjack.]
A board game for two players in which each has 15 stones which move between 24 triangular points according to the roll of a pair of dice; the object is to move all of one's pieces around, and bear them off the board.
(uncountable) A parlour game played in teams with three dice, originating in England but popular among suburban women in the United States at the beginning of the 21st century.
An old-fashioned parlour game describing the meeting of a lady and gentleman and the ensuing events, each player in turn writing a part of the story, not knowing what the others have written.
(games) A simple children's game using a rhyme (the counting rhyme) to select a person from a group, more or less at random. The selected person then takes a particular role in another game that follows.
(uncountable) A mathematical board game in which players take turns placing dominoes horizontally or vertically until no more can be placed, the loser being the player who cannot continue.
A variety of the dice game craps, differing in placing the shooter at a disadvantage and in allowing players to bet on rolling a 2, 3, 11 or 12 before a 7 is thrown.
(card games) A point-counting card game for two players, with variants for three or four players; the cribbage board used for scoring to 61 or 121 points in numerous small increments is characteristic.
A Chinese gambling game in which coins or other small objects are placed upon a table, usually under a cup, and the players bet as to what remainder will be left when the sum of the counters is divided by four.
(uncountable) A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
(card games) A children's card game in which players ask each other for cards of a particular rank, requiring them to "fish" in a pool of additional cards if they do not have the requested card.
(combinatorics) A transformation that moves around the numbers in a tableau according to the jeu de taquin construction, used to determine whether tableaux are equivalent.
(uncountable) A children's game in which one player stands on top of a hill or other location atop an incline, and attempts to repel other players whose goal is to capture his position.
A game in which prizes are covered up and mixed together in a container, so that contestants can dip their hand into the container and randomly draw out a prize.
A game played with numbered dominoes, in which each player attempts to to play all of his/her dominoes onto one or more chains, or "trains", emanating from a central hub or "station".
(games) A children's game in which players circle a group of chairs. There is one chair fewer than the number of players. When someone who is not watching stops playing music, everybody sits down, and the player left without a chair is eliminated.
An ancient strategic board game for two players, each having nine pieces, and in which forming a row of three of one's own pieces earns the removal of one of the other player's pieces.
An ancient Indian board game in which players, throwing dice, shells, etc. to determine the distance of each move, attempt to be the first to take all of their counters around the board.
Alternative form of pachisi [An ancient Indian board game in which players, throwing dice, shells, etc. to determine the distance of each move, attempt to be the first to take all of their counters around the board.]
Alternative form of pachisi [An ancient Indian board game in which players, throwing dice, shells, etc. to determine the distance of each move, attempt to be the first to take all of their counters around the board.]
Alternative form of pachisi [An ancient Indian board game in which players, throwing dice, shells, etc. to determine the distance of each move, attempt to be the first to take all of their counters around the board.]
Alternative form of piquet (“card game”) [(card games) A game of cards for two people, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes being set aside.]
(card games) In piquet, a bonus of 60 points awarded to a player who scores 30 points during the declaration phase, prior to the opponent scoring anything.
A game of skill which requires the bettor to guess which of three small cups (or shells) a pea-sized object is concealed under, after the party operating the game rapidly rearranges them, providing opportunity for sleight-of-hand trickery.
A dice game in which players attempt to cover up a series of visible numbers. On each throw, the player can cover any combination of open numbers that add up to the total number of dots showing on the dice.
A children's luck-based board game of Indian origin, played on a numbered grid, the aim of which is to proceed to the end, and in which ladders aid progress and snakes impede it.
(card games) A multi-player variation of patience in which each player has their own tableau but the foundations are in a common area between all the players.
A game for one person, played on a board with pegs or balls, in which the object is, beginning with all the places filled except one, to remove all but one of the pieces by "jumping", as in draughts.
A mind game where the objective is to avoid thinking about "The Game", and by thinking about it one loses, and subsequently has to announce one's loss to the world in order to make them lose.
A party game in which players conceal a small coin or similar item in one palm as they slap it against a table, while other players attempt to identify which hand conceals the item.
One of a set of twenty-five cards, each featuring one of five symbols (circle, plus sign, square, star, wavy lines), used by researchers to test claims of ESP or remote viewing.
Note: Concept clusters like the one above are an experimental OneLook
feature. We've grouped words and phrases into thousands of clusters
based on a statistical analysis of how they are used in writing. Some
of the words and concepts may be vulgar or offensive. The names of the
clusters were written automatically and may not precisely describe
every word within the cluster; furthermore, the clusters may be
missing some entries that you'd normally associate with their
names. Click on a word to look it up on OneLook.