kingmaking

English

Etymology

king +‎ making

Noun

kingmaking (usually uncountable, plural kingmakings)

1. The ceremony of crowning a king, or any similar ceremony of endowing a person with high office.
2. 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.

Verb

kingmaking

1. present participle and gerund of kingmake

Related terms

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