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F: "Only problem I see with manipulandum is no one would know what you mean."
I agree with Faldage. The word is too obscure.
JM: 'Words like missile and projectile are too broad'
They're too specific.
JM: 'So a word that means, "A manipulandum that is the focus of, or central to, play in a game"'
Ah ... I misunderstood. I don't think manipulandum is something that is central to the play in a game. It's anything that one manipulates. I'm stumped.
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JM: 'Words like missile and projectile are too broad'
They're too specific.
Well, yes, that too, it cuts both ways. JM: 'So a word that means, "A manipulandum that is the focus of, or central to, play in a game"'
Ah ... I misunderstood. I don't think manipulandum is something that is central to the play in a game. It's anything that one manipulates. I'm stumped. Yes, manipulandum is also too broad. I've broached the subject with a number of people to no avail; my suspicion is that there is no such word. I guess I'll be off to commission a new work from my local neologist.
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Yes that is much more clear. But it doesn't help. I don't think there is such a word. Not in English at least.
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I side with thingy, but if that's too broad I propose: ips
(to boldly propose what no one proposed before)
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Now I'm not so sure that thingy is too broad, but it certainly misses the target. In American football, the football is not a thingy but the thingy that hangs down off the front of the helmet and holds the mouth guard is.
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Okay, I like "thingy", but it always smacks of dangliness to me...
My contribution is "scoring device" or "scoring implement". This can be used for both games and sports. You could specificitize it by making "game scoring device/implement" or "sport scoring device/implement". Then come the acronyms: GSD (GSI) and SSD (SSI). :0)
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A pencil is a scoring implement.
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After consulting m-w about 'accoutrement', it seems that word is about ancillary equipment. However, it suggests there might be an appropriate short phrase we might use to describe what you're saying:
Essential equipment or Essential element might be close, but these would connote both, for example, a chess board and the pieces whereas I think you're looking for a phrase that would describe the pieces, but not the board (the soccer ball, but not the field).
Manipulated entity characteristic of the game. (Yuck)
Fundamental item of play.
Heck. I don't know.
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