Quantity
Synonyms for jack
The synonym for jack recorded in this bank is squat, in the sense "a small worthless amount". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for jack
- squatnoun, in the sense "a small worthless amount"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day jack is audited in a second meaning.
a small worthless amount
You don't know jack.
The true synonym
squat
Same sentence, swapped: You don't know squat.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot jack is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- tar
- knave
- hair
Where jack turns up in the game
jack is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where jack is the trap
- piecenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is man, in the sense "game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games", with jack sitting one tile away.
Play jack
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so jack reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from quantity at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. jack carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.