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nountruel (plural truels)
plural truels
- computingA duel fought between three people.
To effect a yet more complex and challenging truel, we can void the simplification that each player knows his order of firing ab initio.
2014, Richard A. Epstein, The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic, Gulf Professional Publishing, →ISBN, page 324 - neologismA conflict between three contending groups or ideas.
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