Basic card game
The crossword clue "Basic card game" is answered by WAR, a 3-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
WAR
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the WAR answer page.
Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for WAR
Every other clue in this collection answered by WAR, most used first.
- Simple card game - used 118 times, most recently in 2026
- Armed conflict - used 106 times, most recently in 2026
- Kids' card game - used 88 times, most recently in 2026
- Conflict - used 37 times, most recently in 2017
- Card game for two - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
- Combat - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
- Fighting - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Major conflict - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Series of battles - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- "This means ___!" - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- General activity - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
- Tug of ___ - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Card game - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
- Cold ___. - used 15 times, most recently in 2018
- -- of 1812 - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Mindless card game - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Two-player card game - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
- "___ and Peace" - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Children's card game - used 10 times, most recently in 2010
- Hell, to Sherman - used 10 times, most recently in 2006
- Hostilities - used 10 times, most recently in 2015
- Serious conflict - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
- Wouk's "The Winds of ___" - used 10 times, most recently in 2013
- Cabinet department until 1947 - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
- Military conflict - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- One of the Four Horsemen - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Open hostilities - used 8 times, most recently in 2001
- Realm of Ares - used 8 times, most recently in 2008
- Tolstoy title word - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
- "Avengers: Infinity ___" - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Kid's card game - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- One of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Part of WWII - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Series of skirmishes - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
- Card game with a belligerent name - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Former Cabinet department - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
- Old Maid alternative - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
- "Saving Private Ryan" backdrop - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Sherman's "hell" - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- Tolstoy topic - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
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