kingmaking

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English

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Etymology

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From king +‎ making.

Noun

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kingmaking (usually uncountable, plural kingmakings)

  1. The ceremony of crowning a king, or any similar ceremony of endowing a person with high office.
  2. 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

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kingmaking

  1. present participle and gerund of kingmake
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