GAME, in general, signifies any diversion or sport, that is performed with regularity, and restrained to certain rules. See GAMING.
Games are usually distinguished into those of exercise and address, and those of hazard. To the first belong chess, tennis, billiards, &c. and to the latter those performed with cards, or dice, as back-gam-
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mon, ombre, piquet, whist, &c. See BACK-GAMMON, &c.