Words are very powerful — so become empowered by enhancing your vocabulary! Check out this week’s word ‘Meeple’, a new entrant to the Oxford Dictionary

Meeple

Noun (plural: meeples or meeple)

Definition: A small figure used as a playing piece in certain board games, having a stylised human form.

Examples:

• “You can’t move a meeple over a bridge unless a meeple is on the bridge.”

• “Each player is given eight wooden meeples.”

• “At least two big meeple were stuck in that city for almost the entire game.”

• “You can place a tile, and then a meeple, so that you get in on his hard earned points just at the last second.”

• “While you can’t place a meeple onto a city (or road) already claimed by another player, you can place a tile that links two claimed areas together.”

• “You don’t get your lounging meeple back until the end of the game, when you get 3 points for every completed city connected by grassland to him.

Published in Dawn, Young World, February 20th, 2015