A Potted Rendition Of Notion Yields Miniature Summary
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| 100% | BINGO | Biddies In Neighbourhood Gamble Openly |
Tony McCoy O'Grady - Bingo (where I live) is played mainly by older women in local community halls |
| 100% | CARD GAMES | Cheating, A Risky Deal, Gamblers Are Master Evasion Sleuths |
Robert Anonymous |
| 83% | CARDS | Clubs, Auricles, Royalty, Diamonds and Spades |
Angela Brett. WARNING, plug coming up... (And don't forget to check out my card game, Once in a Lifetime! It's at http://acronyms.co.nz/software/OIAL.html) |
| 83% | CHESS | Checkerboard, Half Empty, Sixty-four Squares |
Eric Bridgstock |
| 100% | CHESS (2) | Clocks Help Encourage Speedy Strategy |
Eric Bridgstock |
| 100% | CHESS (3) | Checkmate Hardly Ever Seems Straightforward |
Eric Bridgstock |
| 100% | CHESS (4) | Castles Have Every Square Sighted |
Eric Bridgstock |
| 100% | CHESS (5) | Can't Help Evoking Soporific Spectators |
Eric Bridgstock |
| 100% | CHESS (6) | Champions Have Every Strategy Stored |
Eric Bridgstock |
| 100% | CONNECT FOUR | Coloured Ovals Navigated Nicely Ensuring, Cleverly, The Formation Of Unmixed Rows |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | CRAPS | Could Roll A Pass... Seven! |
Roger Williams |
| 83% | CRAPS (2) | Could Roll A Pair of Sixes |
Roger Williams |
| 100% | DICE | Deals In Chance Events |
Sean Lamb Household Objects |
| 100% | GAME | Generally About Mass Entertainment |
Gavin Lambert, thinking mainly about sports games and the like rather than board games, but you could extend the parallel... Sports & Recreation |
| 100% | GAME (2) | Great Adventures, Mesmerizes Evening |
Jan Morgan |
| 100% | GAME (3) | Gives Amusement, Makes Entertainment |
Jan Morgan |
| 100% | 7 LETTERS | L Extra - That's The Emptying Rack Score |
Angela Brett (in Scrabble, when you use all seven of your letters in a single word you get a bonus 50 points - L is 50 in Roman numerals.) |
| 90% | PLAY CARDS | Perennially Likeable - And Your Computer Allows Replaying a Deal Sometimes. |
Angela Brett, who would (WARNING, plug coming up) like to point out that her card game, Once in a Lifetime (at http://acronyms.co.nz/software/OIAL.html), does allow replaying of deals. |
| 92% | PLAYING CARDS | Poor Loser Are You? It's No Good Cheating As Revolting Deceitfulness is Sinful |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | SATIRE (2) | Six Awesome Tiles In Rack? Excellent! |
Angela Brett - it's well known amongst Scrabble players that the letters in SATIRE plus almost any other alphabet letter can form at least one seven-letter word. |
| 100% | SCRABBLE | Spellings Can Roam Across Board, But Look Erratic |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | SIMON | Sole Instructor - Mustn't Obey Nameless |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | SIMON (2) | Somehow It's Misnamed Overseas - Naughty! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, who says: Over here that game is called "O'Grady says!" |