‘Word Match’ is an installation that took place at Mediamatic Amsterdam, as part of the group show ‘disclosing discomforts’. It was a work in progress on my research on multilingualism and the politics of language. Like a public square or classroom, backgammon is a tool for social negotiation. It is a format of the public sphere that has been common in Arabia, Persia, and Mesopotamia for centuries, played in coffee houses, on the sidewalks by the sea, with or without an audience. With an intention to explore intuitive formats and tools of collective social negotiation, I invited guests to engage with my research on the communal transformative aspect of language and the different glossary-related projects I am involved in, through a word debate and discussion over a match of backgammon. The backgammon board itself was wood-crafted and screen-printed by hand by myself.