Guide and Play

Guide

Guide verb - To give advice and instruction to (someone) regarding the course or process to be followed.

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Play and guide are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Play" instead a verb "Guide".

Nearby Words: guidance, guided, guideline, guiding

Play verb - To deal with (something) usually skillfully or efficiently.

Usage example: this is how we're going to play the situation

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Guide and play are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Guide" instead a verb "Play".

Nearby Words: played, playful, player, playfulness, playing

old	old guide	old play
good	good guide	good play
full	full guide	full play
short	short guide	short play
Other adjectives: original, popular, actual, entire, real, big, great, serious, little, lost, main, famous, ancient, new, general, final, titular, basic, said, online.

character	guide character	play character
hero	guide hero	play hero
man	guide man	play man
hand	guide hand	play hand
Other words: way, characters, world, bit, ball.

No wonder you can't find the water sound on the radio periscope device that tells you which order to play the sounds in, so you end up resorting to a guide or trial and error to find the solution.

Source: Guide Dang It / Adventure
After each play session, you play a minigame where you guide your Q-pro through maps to fight monsters and unlock new charts.

Source: Video Game / beatmania
What the condition is, or what battle qualifies as the branching point, are never explained in-game, so a guide is almost necessary to play these paths.

Source: Guide Dang It / Fighting

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