I’ve heard it said about Stone Age (a game some feel is too dependent upon luck), but could apply to any game with a random factor. Looking at the gaming apps on my phone, I use probability management on Ganz Schon Clever, Carcassonne, and Cartographers.
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It was a terrible day when I was explaining to a workmate what I enjoyed about boardgames, and it came down to applying the same thought processes used in work to a more fun process. 
On the bright side, the office thinks I’m a goddamn genius for using the FFG rule book + reference book format in our standard operating protocols.
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I must admit that I love the word play, because of its happy childhood connotations, but also because in English, it includes acting. Which it doesn’t in Spanish, for example.
I would love a slang term like “boarding” or "dicing’ to settle in. It would totally change my concept for boarding schools. They would be way more attractive that way.
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“Gaming” has been used for a long time in my area. Still extremely vague.
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Dicing also means “slicing up”
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Yes, but into cubes. I knew that… years of cooking Jamie Oliver recipes and working in the food industry to blame there.
Ghost Stories?
Nope.
The “probability management” aspect doesn’t come from dice or cards.
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It’s not Kingdomino is it?
Nope! Not Kingdomino
Quacks of Quedlinburg?
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Bingo! 10 points to you 
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Wahoo!! I’ll look forward to frittering these points away on frivolous nonsense.
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I usually use the verb “losing”, since that seems to be the result when I play, especially againt the holy terror that is my wife. 
But no, I think it’s gotta be play. I can’t think of a more fitting verb for what you do with a game.
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