Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

balbo's game

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: bal-bo's game
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A variant of the game of chess, with a novel board shape with 70 squares, and each player commanding a full chess army minus one pawn. There is no castling, and promotion squares are specially defined.

Etymology

Invented by G. Balbo in 1974.

Questions

What does balbo's game mean?: A variant of the game of chess, with a novel board shape with 70 squares, and each player commanding a full chess army minus one pawn. There is no castling, and promotion squares are specially defined.
Where does balbo's game come from?: Invented by G. Balbo in 1974.

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