number game
Math-based brain teaser
Number game most often refers to the manipulation of statistics or figures to support a predetermined conclusion or create a misleading impression: Politicians play number games with unemployment figures.
It can also mean any activity focused primarily on quantitative metrics rather than substance: Dating apps turn romance into a number game.
In gambling, numbers game (with the s) is an illegal lottery based on arbitrary published numbers.
- playing the oddsActing on statistical likelihood
- roll the diceAccept uncertain outcome
- bingoNumber-matching game of chance
- sudokuLogic grid puzzle
- kenoNumber-matching gambling game
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- educational gamesbrain teaser, flash cards, Scrabble, crossword, word search
- puzzle gamessudoku, matching, jigsaw puzzle, tetris, tiles
- brain teasersriddle, brain teaser, logic puzzles, puzzle, brainteasers
- minigamesshooting gallery, tapper, clicker, endless runner, bonus round
- number puzzlessudoku, magic square, arithmetic puzzle, magic squares, multiplication table
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Language-based entertainment
word puzzle · letter game · crossword puzzle · word search · Scrabble
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