• Dutch: wild
• Ewe: adelã
• Finnish: riista
• French: gibier
• German: Wild
• Hungarian: vad
• Italian: selvaggina
• Latvian: medījums
• Polish: dziczyzna
• Russian: дичь (dič’)
• Slovene: divjačina

• Icelandic: með
• Norwegian: med

• Finnish: riistanmakuinen

Verb

1. To gamble.
2. To play games and be a gamer.
3. To use a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable.

   We'll bury them in paperwork, and game the system.

Derived terms

• game the system

Translations

to gamble See gamble

Notes and references

• Avedon, Elliot; Sutton-Smith, Brian, The Study of Games. (Philadelphia: Wiley, 1971), reprinted Krieger, 1979. ISBN 0-89874-045-2
• http://www.videobusiness.com/article.asp?articleID=10858&catID=0
• http://www.historicgames.com/gamestimeline.html - (N.T.)

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