kingmaking
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]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.
Verb
[edit]kingmaking
- present participle and gerund of kingmake