Take-away game
The crossword clue "Take-away game" is answered by NIM, a 3-letter entry. Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2012; first recorded in 2005. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
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3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NIM answer page.
Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2012; first recorded in 2005. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for NIM
Every other clue in this collection answered by NIM, most used first.
- Matchsticks game - used 24 times, most recently in 2024
- Game with matchsticks - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
- Matchstick-removing game - used 12 times, most recently in 2019
- Pick-up-sticks game - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Matchstick counting game - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Takeaway game - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
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.
- Take to court - SUE, used 466 times
- Take advantage of - USE, used 339 times
- Put away - ATE, used 208 times
- Stephen of "The Crying Game" - REA, used 205 times
- Away from WSW - ENE, used 155 times
- Take a load off - SIT, used 151 times
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