Home › Words › C › crazyhousecrazyhousecrazyhouse means A variant of chess, similar to bughouse chess but with only two players, allowing a player to place captured pieces back on the board as his/her own.EtymologyFrom crazy + house.nounA variant of chess, similar to bughouse chess but with only two players, allowing a player to place captured pieces back on the board as his/her own.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.bughouse 66% match — A flea-infested hotel, lodging-house etc. vs crazyhouse →checkers 60% match — A game for two players played on a chessboard; the players have 12 pieces each, and the object is to capture all the opponent’s pieces by jumping over them. Other European varieties have larger boards and more playing pieces. vs crazyhouse →chess 55% match — A board game for two players, each beginning with sixteen chess pieces moving according to fixed rules across a chessboard with the objective to checkmate the opposing king. vs crazyhouse →antichess 55% match — A misère variant of chess, in which each player attempts to lose all of their pieces or to be stalemated. vs crazyhouse →chessman 54% match — Synonym of chess piece. vs crazyhouse →hyperchess 53% match — A multidimensional form of the game of chess. vs crazyhouse →chessaholic 52% match — A person who loves chess. vs crazyhouse →chessboard 51% match — A square playing surface divided into eight rows and eight columns, forming sixty-four equal squares arranged in an alternating pattern of colors across both rows and columns. vs crazyhouse →