draw game

American  

noun

Dominoes.

1. a game in which a player must keep drawing pieces from the boneyard until a playable one is drawn.

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Etymology

Origin of draw game

First recorded in 1815–25

Example Sentences

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draw game

And he noted that in 2021, a $86,000 ticket for a state draw game expired.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 12, 2023

EuroMillions is a draw game of the National Lottery, organised in coordination with lotteries from France, Britain, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Austria, Switzerland and Luxemburg.

From Reuters ● Dec. 9, 2022

Even before the pioneering voyage of the cuscus, the authors write, humans burned tropical rain forests to encourage the growth of useful plants and draw game into the open.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 6, 2016

Any man who has followed these generals of both sides, in the pages of that magazine, must conclude that the war was a draw game, and that both sides were whipped.

From How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion or, The Funny Experiences of a Raw Recruit - 1887 by Peck, George W. (George Wilbur)

The friends of both sides drew their stake money, and the Umpire, drawin' a long breath, declared the match a draw game.

From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 23, September 3, 1870 by Various