rulebook

US/ˌɹulˌbʊk/

nounB2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechleans written

Other forms: rulebooks

A rulebook is the booklet setting out how a game is played. Read the rulebook, check the rulebook, a thick rulebook.

Arguments are settled by it, which is why a good one is indexed. Going by the rulebook is also a figure for following procedure exactly, and throwing it out is the opposite.

Definitions of rulebook

1nounrulebookThe booklet setting out how a game is played.B2
“Nobody had opened the rulebook in fifteen years of playing.”

rulebook is a book.

Where it comes from

From rule + book.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Games & Toys

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rulebook in the wild

Although there are different rulebooks present for all countries that participate in the national level, the awarding of an assist point is universal.
Assist (ice hockey)
Based on the Hockey Canada rulebook, Rule 6.6 Goals and Assists Hockey Canada; "Each goal and assist will count one point in the scoring records.
Assist (ice hockey)
The fictional background for the game was developed in rulebooks, White Dwarf magazine, Inferno! magazine, and more than 150 novels set in the Warhammer universe.
Warhammer (game)
Complete Arcane is a supplemental rulebook for the 3.5 edition of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.
Complete Arcane
Complete Warrior is a supplemental rulebook for the 3.5 edition of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, published by Wizards of the Coast.
Complete Warrior

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