guessing games
Deduction-based entertainment activities
Guessing games are activities where players try to identify something unknown—a word, person, object, or concept—from clues or limited information.
Common examples include charades, twenty questions, and riddles.
Figuratively, the phrase describes situations requiring speculation without adequate information: I'm tired of playing guessing games—just tell me what you want.
- charadesWordless guessing game
- riddlesPuzzling questions or teasers
- party gamesStructured group entertainment activities
- party trickAmusing skill for guests
- hangmanOne who kills condemned
word association · I spy · parlor games · deduction · process of elimination · clumps · true or false · pub quizzes · lateral thinking · games · clue · chance · deductive reasoning · jeopardy · wild card · hints · wordplay · hypothetical scenarios
- riddlesriddles, riddle, conundrums, conundrum, enigmas
- gamesboard games, card games, video games, chess, party games
- party gamescharades, musical statues, musical chairs, truth or dare, spin the bottle
- word gamescrossword, Scrabble, crossword puzzle, anagram, anagrams
- probabilityprobability, chance, random, randomness, odds
- guessingprediction, hypothesis, conjecture, speculation, hunch
guessing gamestrivia
Unimportant miscellaneous facts
factual knowledge · known quantities · certainties · trivia games · expertise
guessing gamesstrategy games
Games requiring deliberate planning
games of skill · chess · strategy · planning
guessing gamesstraight talk
Honest, direct communication
full disclosure · transparency · candor · laying cards on the table · cutting to the chase
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