English citations of spleef

Noun: A Minecraft game
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  • 2014 October 17, Stephen O'Brien, The Advanced Strategy Guide to Minecraft, →ISBN:
    Creating a full self-generating platform—perfect for that game of Spleef.
  • 2014 October 21, Mark Cheverton, Confronting the Dragon, →ISBN:
    They chased me . . . chased me into a corner of the spleef arena they'd constructed, then . . . then closed in.
    Well . . . ahhh . . . some of the boys in our village were gonna play a . . . play a game of spleef, you know, knocking away block of snow from under another person
  • 2015 November 18, “At Your Library”, in Community Times, volume 87, number 71, page 5, column 1:
    “Minecraft MiniGames.” For school aged children. At 1 p.m., compete against fellow Minecrafters in short minigames. Games include Pizza Spleef, The Walls, and Survival Games.
Verb: To play spleef
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  • 2015, Mark Cheverton, The Jungle Temple Oracle: The Mystery of Herobrine, page IX:
    These servers host many types of gameplay, from minigames, to spleefing (my favorite), to PvP (I'm terrible at Player-vs-Player battles), to fractions, to Survival, to Creative . . . It's amazing what people have created with Minecraft, and these many, many servers are evidence of the creative potential Minecraft offers those with imaginative minds.
  • 2015, Master Builder 50 Awesome Builds:
    It also includes everything you need to Spleef right, like observation posts and an entrance way (most Spleef games are teleported to from servers, so they need somewhere to enter), and it would work great on just about any server.
  • 2015 January 15, “The List: A Weekly Guide to Area Events & Attractions”, in The Citizens’ Voice, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., page J12, column 4:
    Minecraft Event, Jan. 24 to April 25, Jan. 24 10 a.m. Kida[sic – meaning Kids] ages 7 to 14 are invited to join in the “grinding, building, spleefing and raising of diamond swords” at this monthly Minecraft Event with instructor Rand Whipple and the Box of Light Studio staff.
  • 2017 August, “Reviews”, in Starburst, page 101, column 2:
    As parents are confused at the dinner table when their offspring talk about ‘Endermen’ and ‘spleefing []