Trying to pin everything down is a fool's errand. From the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Wittgenstein.
"So different is this new perspective that Wittgenstein repeats: 'Don’t think, but look!' (PI 66); and such
looking is done vis a vis particular cases, not
generalizations. In giving the meaning of a word, any explanatory
generalization should be replaced by a description of use. The
traditional idea that a proposition houses a content and has a
restricted number of Fregean forces (such as assertion, question and
command), gives way to an emphasis on the diversity of uses. In order
to address the countless multiplicity of uses, their un-fixedness, and
their being part of an activity, Wittgenstein introduces the key
concept of ‘language-game’. He never explicitly defines it
since, as opposed to the earlier ‘picture’, for instance,
this new concept is made to do work for a more fluid, more
diversified, and more activity-oriented perspective on language."
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