Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
Looking for a small, onscreen, hard-to-find object in a graphic adventure puzzle video game.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: video-games
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noun
Pointing on a small screen control of a graphical interface with a mouse, or with a finger on a touch screen, especially when struggling to do so.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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verb
present participle and gerund of pixel hunt
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
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History
Graphic adventure puzzle video games in the 1980s and 1990s could require the player to find objects or switches that were only a few pixels in size, in some cases hidden in the scenery.
Across languages
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