# The Atoz Game (Part 3) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [December 2, 2025, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-3/1025341 "2025-12-02T22:20:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 37
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2026, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-3/1025341/721 "2026-03-16T12:34:18Z")
**Words with a very particular etymology** Aubergine (eggplant in British English, from the Arab _Bāḏinjān_) Badminton (named for Badminton House in Gloucestershire, the estate of the Duke of Beaufort) Cantaloupe (named for the papal village of Cantalupo, Italy, where the seeds were cultivated. The name means “singing wolf”, or “place where the wolves sing”). Derrick (originally a gallows, later a hoist, crane or structure over an oil well, from the surname of a hangman at London’s Tyburn gallows in the early 1600s) Ear (“grain part of corn” from Old English æher, which means spike or head of grain) Filbert (another name for a hazelnut, may come from the nut maturing arr. St. Philibert’s feast day) Grenade (from the French _grenate_ and the Spanish _grenada_, meaning ‘pomegranate’ – which the hand-thrown bomb resembled) Husband (from the Old Norse _hūsbōndi_, literally meaning “house dweller.”) It combines _hūs_ (house) and _bōndi_ (occupier or freeholder), originally referring to the master of a household rather than a marital status. Ion (coined in 1834 by English polymath William Whewell for physicist Michael Faraday, derived from the Greek word _ion_ meaning “going,” which is the neuter present participle of _ienai_"to go".) July, named for Julius Caesar Knickerbocker (a type of clothing) Labia (from the Latin for “lip”) Macadam (a paving surface named for its developer, John Loudon McAdam) Nankeen (a yellow cotton cloth popular in the 1800s, named for Nanking, China, where it was originally made) Okay - Started with a 1830’s fad of intentionally misspelling and abbreviating phrases. “All correct” became “oll korrect” which became “ok”. Palaver - per Merriam-Webster, “originated in the early 18th century as sailors’ slang, derived from the Portuguese word _palavra_” Quinoa (a grain originally from Peru, from the Spanish spelling of Quechua (Inca) kinua) Ritzy - From Cesar Ritz and his highfalutin hotels. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2026, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-3/1025341/722 "2026-03-16T15:18:47Z")
**Words with a very particular etymology** Aubergine (eggplant in British English, from the Arab _Bāḏinjān_) Badminton (named for Badminton House in Gloucestershire, the estate of the Duke of Beaufort) Cantaloupe (named for the papal village of Cantalupo, Italy, where the seeds were cultivated. The name means “singing wolf”, or “place where the wolves sing”). Derrick (originally a gallows, later a hoist, crane or structure over an oil well, from the surname of a hangman at London’s Tyburn gallows in the early 1600s) Ear (“grain part of corn” from Old English æher, which means spike or head of grain) Filbert (another name for a hazelnut, may come from the nut maturing arr. St. Philibert’s feast day) Grenade (from the French _grenate_ and the Spanish _grenada_, meaning ‘pomegranate’ – which the hand-thrown bomb resembled) Husband (from the Old Norse _hūsbōndi_, literally meaning “house dweller.”) It combines _hūs_ (house) and _bōndi_ (occupier or freeholder), originally referring to the master of a household rather than a marital status. Ion (coined in 1834 by English polymath William Whewell for physicist Michael Faraday, derived from the Greek word _ion_ meaning “going,” which is the neuter present participle of _ienai_"to go".) July, named for Julius Caesar Knickerbocker (a type of clothing) Labia (from the Latin for “lip”) Macadam (a paving surface named for its developer, John Loudon McAdam) Nankeen (a yellow cotton cloth popular in the 1800s, named for Nanking, China, where it was originally made) Okay - Started with a 1830’s fad of intentionally misspelling and abbreviating phrases. “All correct” became “oll korrect” which became “ok”. Palaver - per Merriam-Webster, “originated in the early 18th century as sailors’ slang, derived from the Portuguese word _palavra_” Quinoa (a grain originally from Peru, from the Spanish spelling of Quechua (Inca) kinua) Ritzy - From Cesar Ritz and his highfalutin hotels. Saxophone (named by its creator, Adolphe Sax, for himself) ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2026, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-3/1025341/723 "2026-03-16T18:45:00Z")
**Words with a very particular etymology** Aubergine (eggplant in British English, from the Arab _Bāḏinjān_) Badminton (named for Badminton House in Gloucestershire, the estate of the Duke of Beaufort) Cantaloupe (named for the papal village of Cantalupo, Italy, where the seeds were cultivated. The name means “singing wolf”, or “place where the wolves sing”). Derrick (originally a gallows, later a hoist, crane or structure over an oil well, from the surname of a hangman at London’s Tyburn gallows in the early 1600s) Ear (“grain part of corn” from Old English æher, which means spike or head of grain) Filbert (another name for a hazelnut, may come from the nut maturing arr. St. Philibert’s feast day) Grenade (from the French _grenate_ and the Spanish _grenada_, meaning ‘pomegranate’ – which the hand-thrown bomb resembled) Husband (from the Old Norse _hūsbōndi_, literally meaning “house dweller.”) It combines _hūs_ (house) and _bōndi_ (occupier or freeholder), originally referring to the master of a household rather than a marital status. Ion (coined in 1834 by English polymath William Whewell for physicist Michael Faraday, derived from the Greek word _ion_ meaning “going,” which is the neuter present participle of _ienai_"to go".) July, named for Julius Caesar Knickerbocker (a type of clothing) Labia (from the Latin for “lip”) Macadam (a paving surface named for its developer, John Loudon McAdam) Nankeen (a yellow cotton cloth popular in the 1800s, named for Nanking, China, where it was originally made) Okay - Started with a 1830’s fad of intentionally misspelling and abbreviating phrases. “All correct” became “oll korrect” which became “ok”. Palaver - per Merriam-Webster, “originated in the early 18th century as sailors’ slang, derived from the Portuguese word _palavra_” Quinoa (a grain originally from Peru, from the Spanish spelling of Quechua (Inca) kinua) Ritzy - From Cesar Ritz and his highfalutin hotels. Saxophone (named by its creator, Adolphe Sax, for himself) Tycoon (from the Japanese word _taikun_, which means ‘great ruler’) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2026, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-3/1025341/724 "2026-03-16T18:53:02Z")
**Words with a very particular etymology** Aubergine (eggplant in British English, from the Arab _Bāḏinjān_) Badminton (named for Badminton House in Gloucestershire, the estate of the Duke of Beaufort) Cantaloupe (named for the papal village of Cantalupo, Italy, where the seeds were cultivated. The name means “singing wolf”, or “place where the wolves sing”). Derrick (originally a gallows, later a hoist, crane or structure over an oil well, from the surname of a hangman at London’s Tyburn gallows in the early 1600s) Ear (“grain part of corn” from Old English æher, which means spike or head of grain) Filbert (another name for a hazelnut, may come from the nut maturing arr. St. Philibert’s feast day) Grenade (from the French _grenate_ and the Spanish _grenada_, meaning ‘pomegranate’ – which the hand-thrown bomb resembled) Husband (from the Old Norse _hūsbōndi_, literally meaning “house dweller.”) It combines _hūs_ (house) and _bōndi_ (occupier or freeholder), originally referring to the master of a household rather than a marital status. Ion (coined in 1834 by English polymath William Whewell for physicist Michael Faraday, derived from the Greek word _ion_ meaning “going,” which is the neuter present participle of _ienai_"to go".) July, named for Julius Caesar Knickerbocker (a type of clothing) Labia (from the Latin for “lip”) Macadam (a paving surface named for its developer, John Loudon McAdam) Nankeen (a yellow cotton cloth popular in the 1800s, named for Nanking, China, where it was originally made) Okay - Started with a 1830’s fad of intentionally misspelling and abbreviating phrases. “All correct” became “oll korrect” which became “ok”. Palaver - per Merriam-Webster, “originated in the early 18th century as sailors’ slang, derived from the Portuguese word _palavra_” Quinoa (a grain originally from Peru, from the Spanish spelling of Quechua (Inca) kinua) Ritzy - From Cesar Ritz and his highfalutin hotels. Saxophone (named by its creator, Adolphe Sax, for himself) Tycoon (from the Japanese word _taikun_, which means ‘great ruler’) Umpire - The word was originally noumpere (from the French nonper) but the n shifted and a noumpere became an umpire. ---
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**Words with a very particular etymology** Aubergine (eggplant in British English, from the Arab _Bāḏinjān_) Badminton (named for Badminton House in Gloucestershire, the estate of the Duke of Beaufort) Cantaloupe (named for the papal village of Cantalupo, Italy, where the seeds were cultivated. The name means “singing wolf”, or “place where the wolves sing”). Derrick (originally a gallows, later a hoist, crane or structure over an oil well, from the surname of a hangman at London’s Tyburn gallows in the early 1600s) Ear (“grain part of corn” from Old English æher, which means spike or head of grain) Filbert (another name for a hazelnut, may come from the nut maturing arr. St. Philibert’s feast day) Grenade (from the French _grenate_ and the Spanish _grenada_, meaning ‘pomegranate’ – which the hand-thrown bomb resembled) Husband (from the Old Norse _hūsbōndi_, literally meaning “house dweller.”) It combines _hūs_ (house) and _bōndi_ (occupier or freeholder), originally referring to the master of a household rather than a marital status. Ion (coined in 1834 by English polymath William Whewell for physicist Michael Faraday, derived from the Greek word _ion_ meaning “going,” which is the neuter present participle of _ienai_"to go".) July, named for Julius Caesar Knickerbocker (a type of clothing) Labia (from the Latin for “lip”) Macadam (a paving surface named for its developer, John Loudon McAdam) Nankeen (a yellow cotton cloth popular in the 1800s, named for Nanking, China, where it was originally made) Okay - Started with a 1830’s fad of intentionally misspelling and abbreviating phrases. “All correct” became “oll korrect” which became “ok”. Palaver - per Merriam-Webster, “originated in the early 18th century as sailors’ slang, derived from the Portuguese word _palavra_” Quinoa (a grain originally from Peru, from the Spanish spelling of Quechua (Inca) kinua) Ritzy - From Cesar Ritz and his highfalutin hotels. Saxophone (named by its creator, Adolphe Sax, for himself) Tycoon (from the Japanese word _taikun_, which means ‘great ruler’) Umpire - The word was originally noumpere (from the French nonper) but the n shifted and a noumpere became an umpire. Valentine (from St. Valentine, a Christian saint who is the patron saint of courtly love) ---
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**Words with a very particular etymology** Aubergine (eggplant in British English, from the Arab _Bāḏinjān_) Badminton (named for Badminton House in Gloucestershire, the estate of the Duke of Beaufort) Cantaloupe (named for the papal village of Cantalupo, Italy, where the seeds were cultivated. The name means “singing wolf”, or “place where the wolves sing”). Derrick (originally a gallows, later a hoist, crane or structure over an oil well, from the surname of a hangman at London’s Tyburn gallows in the early 1600s) Ear (“grain part of corn” from Old English æher, which means spike or head of grain) Filbert (another name for a hazelnut, may come from the nut maturing arr. St. Philibert’s feast day) Grenade (from the French _grenate_ and the Spanish _grenada_, meaning ‘pomegranate’ – which the hand-thrown bomb resembled) Husband (from the Old Norse _hūsbōndi_, literally meaning “house dweller.”) It combines _hūs_ (house) and _bōndi_ (occupier or freeholder), originally referring to the master of a household rather than a marital status. Ion (coined in 1834 by English polymath William Whewell for physicist Michael Faraday, derived from the Greek word _ion_ meaning “going,” which is the neuter present participle of _ienai_"to go".) July, named for Julius Caesar Knickerbocker (a type of clothing) Labia (from the Latin for “lip”) Macadam (a paving surface named for its developer, John Loudon McAdam) Nankeen (a yellow cotton cloth popular in the 1800s, named for Nanking, China, where it was originally made) Okay - Started with a 1830’s fad of intentionally misspelling and abbreviating phrases. “All correct” became “oll korrect” which became “ok”. Palaver - per Merriam-Webster, “originated in the early 18th century as sailors’ slang, derived from the Portuguese word _palavra_” Quinoa (a grain originally from Peru, from the Spanish spelling of Quechua (Inca) kinua) Ritzy - From Cesar Ritz and his highfalutin hotels. Saxophone (named by its creator, Adolphe Sax, for himself) Tycoon (from the Japanese word _taikun_, which means ‘great ruler’) Umpire - The word was originally noumpere (from the French nonper) but the n shifted and a noumpere became an umpire. Valentine (from St. Valentine, a Christian saint who is the patron saint of courtly love) Wad (From _wadde_ , "small bunch of fibrous, soft material for padding or stuffing) The meaning “something bundled up tightly” (especially paper currency) is from 1778. To _shoot (one’s) wad_ “do all one can do” is recorded by 1860. The immediate source of the expression probably is _wad_ in the sense of “disk of cloth used to hold powder and shot in place in a gun” (1660s). _Wad_ in the slang sense of “a load of semen” is attested from 1920s, and the expression now sometimes is felt in this sense. ---
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**Words with a very particular etymology** Aubergine (eggplant in British English, from the Arab _Bāḏinjān_) Badminton (named for Badminton House in Gloucestershire, the estate of the Duke of Beaufort) Cantaloupe (named for the papal village of Cantalupo, Italy, where the seeds were cultivated. The name means “singing wolf”, or “place where the wolves sing”). Derrick (originally a gallows, later a hoist, crane or structure over an oil well, from the surname of a hangman at London’s Tyburn gallows in the early 1600s) Ear (“grain part of corn” from Old English æher, which means spike or head of grain) Filbert (another name for a hazelnut, may come from the nut maturing arr. St. Philibert’s feast day) Grenade (from the French _grenate_ and the Spanish _grenada_, meaning ‘pomegranate’ – which the hand-thrown bomb resembled) Husband (from the Old Norse _hūsbōndi_, literally meaning “house dweller.”) It combines _hūs_ (house) and _bōndi_ (occupier or freeholder), originally referring to the master of a household rather than a marital status. Ion (coined in 1834 by English polymath William Whewell for physicist Michael Faraday, derived from the Greek word _ion_ meaning “going,” which is the neuter present participle of _ienai_"to go".) July, named for Julius Caesar Knickerbocker (a type of clothing) Labia (from the Latin for “lip”) Macadam (a paving surface named for its developer, John Loudon McAdam) Nankeen (a yellow cotton cloth popular in the 1800s, named for Nanking, China, where it was originally made) Okay - Started with a 1830’s fad of intentionally misspelling and abbreviating phrases. “All correct” became “oll korrect” which became “ok”. Palaver - per Merriam-Webster, “originated in the early 18th century as sailors’ slang, derived from the Portuguese word _palavra_” Quinoa (a grain originally from Peru, from the Spanish spelling of Quechua (Inca) kinua) Ritzy - From Cesar Ritz and his highfalutin hotels. Saxophone (named by its creator, Adolphe Sax, for himself) Tycoon (from the Japanese word _taikun_, which means ‘great ruler’) Umpire - The word was originally noumpere (from the French nonper) but the n shifted and a noumpere became an umpire. Valentine (from St. Valentine, a Christian saint who is the patron saint of courtly love) Wad (From _wadde_ , "small bunch of fibrous, soft material for padding or stuffing) Xylophone - from Greek elements: _xylon_ “wood” + _phōnē_ “a sound”, 1866 Before the xylophone, children’s alphabet books (Biblically based) used Xerxes, or “X in the box” or “X is a letter that seldom is found”. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2026, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-3/1025341/728 "2026-03-19T17:09:43Z")
**Words with a very particular etymology** Aubergine (eggplant in British English, from the Arab _Bāḏinjān_) Badminton (named for Badminton House in Gloucestershire, the estate of the Duke of Beaufort) Cantaloupe (named for the papal village of Cantalupo, Italy, where the seeds were cultivated. The name means “singing wolf”, or “place where the wolves sing”). Derrick (originally a gallows, later a hoist, crane or structure over an oil well, from the surname of a hangman at London’s Tyburn gallows in the early 1600s) Ear (“grain part of corn” from Old English æher, which means spike or head of grain) Filbert (another name for a hazelnut, may come from the nut maturing arr. St. Philibert’s feast day) Grenade (from the French _grenate_ and the Spanish _grenada_, meaning ‘pomegranate’ – which the hand-thrown bomb resembled) Husband (from the Old Norse _hūsbōndi_, literally meaning “house dweller.”) It combines _hūs_ (house) and _bōndi_ (occupier or freeholder), originally referring to the master of a household rather than a marital status. Ion (coined in 1834 by English polymath William Whewell for physicist Michael Faraday, derived from the Greek word _ion_ meaning “going,” which is the neuter present participle of _ienai_"to go".) July, named for Julius Caesar Knickerbocker (a type of clothing) Labia (from the Latin for “lip”) Macadam (a paving surface named for its developer, John Loudon McAdam) Nankeen (a yellow cotton cloth popular in the 1800s, named for Nanking, China, where it was originally made) Okay - Started with a 1830’s fad of intentionally misspelling and abbreviating phrases. “All correct” became “oll korrect” which became “ok”. Palaver - per Merriam-Webster, “originated in the early 18th century as sailors’ slang, derived from the Portuguese word _palavra_” Quinoa (a grain originally from Peru, from the Spanish spelling of Quechua (Inca) kinua) Ritzy - From Cesar Ritz and his highfalutin hotels. Saxophone (named by its creator, Adolphe Sax, for himself) Tycoon (from the Japanese word _taikun_, which means ‘great ruler’) Umpire - The word was originally noumpere (from the French nonper) but the n shifted and a noumpere became an umpire. Valentine (from St. Valentine, a Christian saint who is the patron saint of courtly love) Wad (From _wadde_ , "small bunch of fibrous, soft material for padding or stuffing) Xylophone - from Greek elements: _xylon_ “wood” + _phōnē_ “a sound”, 1866 Yahoo (the name of a race of brutish humanoids in Jonathan Swift’s _Gulliver’s Travels_ (1726)) ---
**Author:** ![themapleleaf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/themapleleaf/32/14349_2.png) [@themapleleaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/themapleleaf)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2026, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-3/1025341/729 "2026-03-19T18:14:04Z")
**Words with a very particular etymology** Aubergine (eggplant in British English, from the Arab _Bāḏinjān_) Badminton (named for Badminton House in Gloucestershire, the estate of the Duke of Beaufort) Cantaloupe (named for the papal village of Cantalupo, Italy, where the seeds were cultivated. The name means “singing wolf”, or “place where the wolves sing”). Derrick (originally a gallows, later a hoist, crane or structure over an oil well, from the surname of a hangman at London’s Tyburn gallows in the early 1600s) Ear (“grain part of corn” from Old English æher, which means spike or head of grain) Filbert (another name for a hazelnut, may come from the nut maturing arr. St. Philibert’s feast day) Grenade (from the French _grenate_ and the Spanish _grenada_, meaning ‘pomegranate’ – which the hand-thrown bomb resembled) Husband (from the Old Norse _hūsbōndi_, literally meaning “house dweller.”) It combines _hūs_ (house) and _bōndi_ (occupier or freeholder), originally referring to the master of a household rather than a marital status. Ion (coined in 1834 by English polymath William Whewell for physicist Michael Faraday, derived from the Greek word _ion_ meaning “going,” which is the neuter present participle of _ienai_"to go".) July, named for Julius Caesar Knickerbocker (a type of clothing) Labia (from the Latin for “lip”) Macadam (a paving surface named for its developer, John Loudon McAdam) Nankeen (a yellow cotton cloth popular in the 1800s, named for Nanking, China, where it was originally made) Okay - Started with a 1830’s fad of intentionally misspelling and abbreviating phrases. “All correct” became “oll korrect” which became “ok”. Palaver - per Merriam-Webster, “originated in the early 18th century as sailors’ slang, derived from the Portuguese word _palavra_” Quinoa (a grain originally from Peru, from the Spanish spelling of Quechua (Inca) kinua) Ritzy - From Cesar Ritz and his highfalutin hotels. Saxophone (named by its creator, Adolphe Sax, for himself) Tycoon (from the Japanese word _taikun_, which means ‘great ruler’) Umpire - The word was originally noumpere (from the French nonper) but the n shifted and a noumpere became an umpire. Valentine (from St. Valentine, a Christian saint who is the patron saint of courtly love) Wad (From _wadde_ , "small bunch of fibrous, soft material for padding or stuffing) Xylophone - from Greek elements: _xylon_ “wood” + _phōnē_ “a sound”, 1866 Yahoo (the name of a race of brutish humanoids in Jonathan Swift’s _Gulliver’s Travels_ (1726)) Zany (from _Zanni_, a term for the servant characters in the Italian _Commedia dell’arte_ like Harlequin or Pulcinella, who could be shrewd and cocky). **=PASS=** ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2026, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-3/1025341/730 "2026-03-20T05:44:02Z")
**Games of any kind, and words associated with it** American football ---
**Author:** ![themapleleaf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/themapleleaf/32/14349_2.png) [@themapleleaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/themapleleaf)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2026, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-3/1025341/731 "2026-03-20T10:34:41Z")
**Games of any kind, and words associated with it** American football Badminton, birdie ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2026, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-3/1025341/732 "2026-03-20T11:10:26Z")
**Games of any kind, and words associated with it** American football Badminton, birdie Chess ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2026, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-3/1025341/733 "2026-03-20T12:57:18Z")
**Games of any kind, and words associated with it** American football Badminton, birdie Chess Disc golf ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2026, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-3/1025341/734 "2026-03-20T13:30:24Z")
**Games of any kind, and words associated with it** American football Badminton, birdie Chess Disc golf Elephant polo ---
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[quote=“Little\_Nemo, post:734, topic:1025341, full:true”] **Games of any kind, and words associated with it** American football Badminton, birdie Chess Disc golf Elephant polo Frankenstein chess The Doctor (king) can sacrifice a live pawn to bring back a dead piece. ---
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Note the full category description, please. **Games of any kind, and words associated with it** American football Badminton, birdie Chess, queen Disc golf Elephant polo Frankenstein chess Go, pieces Hockey, ice [Irish, tables](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_(game)) ---
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**Games of any kind, and words associated with it** American football Badminton, birdie Chess, queen Disc golf Elephant polo Frankenstein chess Go, pieces Hockey, ice [Irish, tables](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_(game)) Jai alai, cesta ---
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