Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

game of the goose

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.83 in modern English

Syllables: game of the -goose
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A board game, popular in the 16th century, in which players moved pieces around a track based on dice rolls.

Example Sentences

"Labyrinths disappeared from churches in the later Middle Ages, but exactly at the time that the game of the goose was coming into fashion in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries the creation of labyrinths in gardens became widespread."

Questions

What does game of the goose mean?: A board game, popular in the 16th century, in which players moved pieces around a track based on dice rolls.

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