Game and Ploy

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Game noun - A competitive encounter between individuals or groups carried on for amusement, exercise, or in pursuit of a prize.

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Ploy is a synonym for game in scheme topic. In some cases you can use "Ploy" instead a noun "Game", when it comes to topics like plot.

Nearby Words: gaming, gamed, gamesome, gamesmanship, gamer

Ploy noun - A clever often underhanded means to achieve an end.

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Game is a synonym for ploy in tactic topic. Sometimes you can use "Game" instead a noun "Ploy".

Nearby Word: ployed

old	old game	old ploy
good	good game	good ploy
particular	particular game	particular ploy
better	better game	better ploy
Other adjectives: similar, typical, standard, simple, popular, little, bad, main, final, classic, last, latest, cosmic.

It is revealed in The Stinger at the end of The Fist of Mars that the entire game's plot was a ploy to get rid of his opposition within the leadership of BAHRAM.

Source: Video Game / Zone of the Enders
An early comedic example of this ploy in play is The Wrong Arm of the Law, where a gang of Australian crooks upsets the established rules of the cops and robbers game in London.

Source: Impersonating an Officer
The reality of the claim varies as well; it may just be a villainous ploy to throw the hero off his game.

Source: Plea of Personal Necessity

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