Materials
Synonyms for patina
The synonym for patina recorded in this bank is sheen, in the sense "a sheen or coloring that develops on a surface with age and handling". 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 patina
- sheennoun, in the sense "a sheen or coloring that develops on a surface with age and handling"
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 patina is audited in a second meaning.
a sheen or coloring that develops on a surface with age and handling
Decades of handling had given the leather bag a warm patina that collectors prized.
The true synonym
sheen
Same sentence, swapped: Decades of handling had given the leather bag a warm sheen that collectors prized.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- grime
- dye
- residue
Where patina turns up in the game
patina is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play patina
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so patina reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other materials words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. patina carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.