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Several games may be confused with tafl games, due to the inclusion of the word tafl in their names or other similarities. Halatafl is the Old Norse name for Fox and Geese, a game dating from at least the 14th century. It is still known and played in Europe. Kvatrutafl is the Old Norse name for Tables (the medieval forerunner of Backgammon).
A language-game (‹See Tfd› German: Sprachspiel) is a philosophical concept developed by Ludwig Wittgenstein, referring to simple examples of language use and the actions into which the language is woven. Wittgenstein argued that a word or even a sentence has meaning only as a result of the "rule" of the "game" being played.
Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by placing tiles, each bearing a single letter, onto a game board divided into a 15×15 grid of squares. The tiles must form words that, in crossword fashion, read left to right in rows or downward in columns and are included in a standard dictionary or lexicon.
Pig Latin. Pig Latin (Igpay Atinlay) is a language game, argot, or cant in which words in English are altered, usually by adding a fabricated suffix or by moving the onset or initial consonant or consonant cluster of a word to the end of the word and adding a vocalic syllable (usually -ay or /eɪ/) to create such a suffix. [1]
Bezique (/ b ə ˈ z iː k /) or bésigue (French:) is a 19th-century French melding and trick-taking card game for two players that came to Britain and is still played today. The game is derived from piquet, [1] possibly via marriage (sixty-six) and briscan, with additional scoring features, notably the peculiar liaison of the Q ♠ and J ♦ that is also a feature of pinochle, Binokel, and ...
Ludus Anglicorum. Ludus Anglicorum, also called the English Game, is an historical English tables game for two players using a board similar to that used today for Backgammon and other games. It is a "strategic game for serious game-players" and was well known in the Middle Ages. [1] At one time it was considered the most popular tables game in ...
Bocce (/ ˈbɒtʃi / ⓘ, [1][2] or / ˈbɒtʃeɪ /, [3] Italian: [ˈbɔttʃe]), sometimes anglicized as bocce ball, [4] bocci, [5] or boccie, [1] is a ball sport belonging to the boules family. Developed into its present form in Italy, it is closely related to English bowls and French pétanque, with a common ancestry from ancient games played ...
Trivia is information and data that are considered to be of little value. Modern usage of the term trivia dates to the 1960s, when college students introduced question-and-answer contests to their universities. A board game, Trivial Pursuit, was released in 1982 in the same vein as these contests. Since the beginning of its modern usage, trivia ...