单词 | parlour game |
释义 | parlour game (once / 184677 pages) n WORD FAMILY parlour game: parlour games USAGE EXAMPLESIT HAS become something of a parlour game among Australian politicians. Economist(Nov 03, 2016) Hence the popular parlour game among scientists: speculating on who will get the Nobel prize for impressive discoveries. Nature(Jul 19, 2016) Unmasking the true identity of the pseudonymous author Elena Ferrante has become Italy’s favourite – and increasingly farcical – literary parlour game. The Guardian(Mar 13, 2016) n a game suitable for playing in a parlor Syn|Hypo|Hyper parlor game word game any game involving the formation or alteration or discovery of words board gamea game played on a specially designed board anagramsa game whose object is to form words from a group of randomly chosen letters Scrabblea board game in which words are formed from letters in patterns similar to a crossword puzzle; each letter has a value and those values are used to score the game backgammona board game for two players; pieces move according to throws of the dice checkers, draughtsa checkerboard game for two players who each have 12 pieces; the object is to jump over and so capture the opponent's pieces chess, chess gamea board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king Chinese checkers, Chinese chequersa board game in which each player tries to move a set of marbles through a set of holes from one point of a six-pointed star to the opposite point dartsa game in which small pointed missiles are thrown at a dartboard go, go gamea board game for two players who place counters on a grid; the object is to surround and so capture the opponent's counters halmaa board game in which players try to move their pieces into their opponent's bases beano, bingo, keno, lottoa game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards ludoa simple board game in which players move counters according to the throw of dice Mah-Jongg, mahjongChinese game played by 4 people with 144 tiles Monopolya board game in which players try to gain a monopoly on real estate as pieces advance around the board according to the throw of a die pachisi, parchesi, parchisian ancient board game resembling backgammon; played on a cross-shaped board shove-ha'penny, shove-halfpenny, shovel boarda game in which coins or discs are slid by hand across a board toward a mark snakes and laddersa board game for children who use dice to move counters up ladders and down snakes noughts and crosses, tic-tac-toe, tick-tack-toe, ticktacktoe, ticktacktoo, tit-tat-toea game in which two players alternately put crosses and circles in one of the compartments of a square grid of nine spaces; the object is to get a row of three crosses or three circles before the opponent does game a contest with rules to determine a winner |
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