kingmaking
English
Etymology
king + making
Noun
kingmaking (usually uncountable, plural kingmakings)
- The ceremony of crowning a king, or any similar ceremony of endowing a person with high office.
- In games, a strategy or design where one player (often the losing one) essentially gets to pick who wins.
- 2008 February 5, ben...@gmail.com, “New final ranking system is crap”, in rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad, Usenet:
- I think that V:TES is a multiplayer game, and multiplayer games have the kingmaking problem no matter much you try to tweak the rules.
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Verb
kingmaking
- present participle of kingmake
Related terms
- kingmaker