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Cards vs Checkers - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between cards and checkers

is that cards is while checkers is (board games|us|canada|in the singular) a game for two players played on a chessboard; the players have 12 pieces each, and the object is to capture all the opponent’s pieces by jumping over them other european varieties have larger boards and more playing pieces.

As a verb checkers is

(checker).

cards

English

Noun

(head)
  • card game
    • He's a fan of cards.

    Derived terms

    * play one's cards right

    checkers

    English

    (wikipedia checkers)

    Etymology

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (-)
  • (board games, US, Canada, in the singular) A game for two players played on a chessboard; the players have 12 pieces each, and the object is to capture all the opponent’s pieces by jumping over them. Other European varieties have larger boards and more playing pieces.
  • English plurals
  • (board games, US, Canada, in the plural) the playing pieces in the game of checkers.

    • Synonyms

    * draughts (UK)

    Verb

    (head)
  • (checker)

    • Anagrams

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