playfield

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playfield

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From play + field.

noun playfields

A playing field. The position of the playfield is here identified as lying north of this open space between it and the burn, and occupying the haugh which extended west […]
The onscreen area within which a game (especially a video game) is played. The game has a tilt feature — tilt Fireball and a tilt sign glows and the scoring stops. The full-sized, full-color commercial playfield even has a special friction silk-screened surface so the ball will roll and not slide.
The main surface inside the machine where the ball moves and the game takes place.

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@misc{playfield_2026,
  title = {playfield},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/playfield},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}