brain teaser
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a difficult question or problem that you try to solve for fun
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used by players in a television or radio quiz programme to show that they know the answer to a question
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a game in which you can use only actions or movements to help the other players to guess a word or phrase
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a word game on paper, in which the answers to questions called clues are written in rows of squares that cross each other so that some letters are shared
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a word game in which one player has a limited number of chances to guess the other player’s word
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a game for two players in which they take turns placing an X or an O in one of nine boxes until one player gets three Xs or three Os in a row
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a number game in which you fill a square of 81 smaller squares with the numbers 1 to 9 so that each row, column, and square of 9 squares contains each number only once
another spelling of tic-tac-toe
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an extra question asked at the end of a quiz to decide who will win when two players have the same number of points
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a news article that consists of a chart … and only has a small amount of text
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