Checkers or chess
The crossword clue "Checkers or chess" is answered by GAME, a 4-letter entry. Used 12 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
GAME
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the GAME answer page.
Used 12 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for GAME
Every other clue in this collection answered by GAME, most used first.
- Willing - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
- Plucky - used 28 times, most recently in 2022
- Up for it - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
- Ready and willing - used 21 times, most recently in 2024
- Hunter's quarry - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Ready for anything - used 14 times, most recently in 2022
- Stadium event - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Chess or checkers - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Hunter's prey - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Ready for action - used 10 times, most recently in 2015
- Willing to try - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Monopoly, e.g. - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Go or Go Fish - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Sports event - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Pool or polo - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Willing to take part - used 6 times, most recently in 2009
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Chess piece - ROOK, used 109 times
- Chess piece - PAWN, used 40 times
- Corner chess piece - ROOK, used 30 times
- Lowly chess piece - PAWN, used 23 times
- Chess castle - ROOK, used 22 times
- Chess turn - MOVE, used 19 times
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