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Regency Gambits and Parlor Stratagems is a hard crossword puzzle with 12 clues covering . Play it online for free below, or create your own crossword with our free crossword maker.
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Regency Gambits and Parlor Stratagems
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- 2. Adjective describing the pattern of boards crucial for draughts and chess initiation
- 4. Traditional alignment game involving three-in-a-row, also revived in Victorian parlors
- 7. Nonsense term famously attached to Victorian children's toy adapted into board play
- 9. Elaborate, inlaid boards named for famed oriental artistry, used for strategic play
- 11. Clever maneuver essential to Victorian board game victors' secret arsenals
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- 1. Ancient race game enjoying revival among Victorian elites with doubling cube tactics
- 3. University lending its name to complex Victorian intellectual games and puzzles
- 5. Figurines arrayed in black and white combat on checkered battlegrounds
- 6. Victorian audience often joining parlour matches as equal-nobled participants
- 8. Name borrowed for strategic game involving artful capture, akin to chess’s elegance
- 10. Expert in Victorian card games, master of sleights and subtle deceit
- 12. Metaphor for the competitive skirmish embodied in Victorian board confrontations
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