List of sports and recreation puzzle topics

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This is a list of sports- and recreation-related topics that have been used in puzzles in puzzle hunts.

Sports-related topics include any type of competitive physical game or activity, as well as the equipment, terminology, rules, and players involved in them

Recreation-related topics are more broad than sports-related ones, as they include non-physical competitions (such as eSports) and the rules/terminology/players involved, non-physical games, and hobbies (whether they're physical or not).

Sports

Individual sports

Team sports

Miscellaneous sports topics

  • Arenas and locales: Places that sports are played. Most professional sports teams have a home area or stadium, and many individual sports have dedicated locations for them to be played.
  • Athletes: The people who play sports.
    • Athlete nicknames: Sometimes individual athletes are given nicknames by fans or fellow players.
    • Athlete numbers: Common in team sports, where athletes are given numbers for easy identification while in uniform.
  • Mascots:
  • The Olympic Games:
  • Rules:
    • Signals: Gestures used by players and referees to indicate various types of information, including penalties, player status, and instructions.
    • Terminology: Jargon used by a particular sport.
  • Teams:

Competitions

Games

Board games

Card games

Video games

A typical Tetris game screen

Specific games

General video game topics

Other games

  • 20 Questions (Animal, Vegetable, Mineral): A game where one person picks an object or concept and answers yes-or-no questions from players, allowing them to whittle down their possibilities before guessing what the first person picked. Many version allow for a non-yes-or-no first question, as long as the question is "Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral?".
    A diagram showing which items in Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock beat which other items (arrows point from winner to loser).
  • Bingo: A gambling game played using a 5x5 grid of numbers (from 1-75) and a randomly-selected series of number (from 1-75), with the goal of being the first one to have five numbers in a row on your card (horizontally, vertically, or diagonally) picked by the caller.
  • Mornington Crescent: A fake game played on the BBC Radio 4 comedy show I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, in which participants allegedly are trying to be the first one to say 'Mornington Crescent'. Despite being a fake game (in that participants are simply trying to entertain listeners rather than play a game with clear rules), the various 'rules' made up throughout the show's run are well-documented, and can be found in full here.
  • Rock, Paper, Scissors: A 1 vs. 1 game where players reveal a hand gesture representing one of the three things in the title. Traditionally, rock crushes scissors, scissors cut paper, and paper covers rock, creating a cycle of strengths and weaknesses. The game is also called Ro-sham-bo/Rochambeau.
    • Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock: A five-way version of RPS, originating in the sitcom The Big Bang Theory.
    • RPS-101: A 101-way version of RPS developed by David Lovelace. While not commonly played in real life, it contains a staggeringly large amount of information in a single game.

Hobbies

To do TO DO

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