different between playfield vs playboard

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play +? field

playfield (plural playfields)

A playing field.
- 1974, Comprehensive Plan for Covington, Kentucky, and Environs
  It has been recommended by some recreational specialists that there should be one such playfield for each 500 children of high school age.
The area within which a game (especially a video game) is played.
- 1977, Popular Science magazine
  The game has a tilt feature — tilt Fireball and a tilt sign glows and the scoring stops. The full-sized, full-color commercial playfield even has a special friction silk-screened surface so the ball will roll and not slide.
- 2007, Friedrich von Borries et al, Space Time Play: Computer Games, Architecture and Urbanism
  In this case, the playfield is more disorienting and feels more like the maze that it is.

play +? board

playboard (plural playboards)

A ledge or shelf used in puppetry for balancing props.
- 2005, Carol R. Exner, Practical Puppetry A-Z: A Guide for Librarians and Teachers (page 106)
  Professional puppeteers hang their puppets upside down from a ring on the playboard shelf inside the puppet theater and slip the puppets on like gloves. […] When the puppet is removed, it is hung back in its place on the playboard.
The playfield of a pinball table or similar game.
- 1983, Heinz R. Pagels, The cosmic code: quantum physics as the language of nature
  Playing pinball requires total concentration, the right combination of skill and chance, a mastery of indeterminacy as the ball moves across the playboard and interacts with bumpers and cushions.

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