Matchsticks game
The crossword clue "Matchsticks game" is answered by NIM, a 3-letter entry. Used 24 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
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3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NIM answer page.
Used 24 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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