| BACCARAT | A card game in which two or more punters gamble against the banker |
| POWERSTRUGGLE | A situation in which two or more people or groups compete for control in a given sphere (5,8) |
| DEADHEAT | A race in which two or more competitors finish at the same time (4,4) |
| DEADHEATS | Races or contests in which two or more participants tie for first place (4,5) |
| NANNYSHARE | Arrangement in which two or more families employ the same caregiver for their children |
| RESEMBLANCE | A way in which two or more things are alike |
| FARO | A card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box. |
| RUMMY | A card game in which players try to collect sets of three or more cards of the same kind (5) |
| CHEMINDEFER | Card game, gambling against the banker (6,2,3) |
| PALIMPSEST | A manuscript on which two or more successive texts have been written |
| UNIFICATION | The process by which two or more countries join together and become one (11) |
| TUGOFWAR | Sport and former Olympic Game in which two teams compete or battle with a rope in a test of strength (3,2,3) |
| SCRABBLE | Board-and-tile game in which two to four players compete in forming words with lettered tiles on a 225-square board, like words in a crossword puzzle. (8) |
| POKER | A card game in which bets are made on the hands dealt (5) |
| CANASTA | A card game in which players amass points by collecting sets of cards (7) |
| IGLOO | A soldier rejected a card game in this frozen dwelling (5) |
| NIM | A game in which two players take turns to remove coins, matchsticks, stones etc from piles or rows (3) |
| BACKGAMMON | Game in which two players move counters around points, trying to remove them from the board |
| CONKERS | Game in which two people engage in combat with horse chestnuts (7) |
| MONKEYINTHEMIDDLE | Kids' game in which two players toss an object to keep it away from a third |
