Meanings
nounguessing game (plural guessing games)
plural guessing games
- gamesAny game the object of which is for a player or players to guess a word, etc, for which the other player or players provide clues.
Similar to The Masked Singer, I Can See Your Voice makes viewers and judges play a guessing game as to who are good and bad singers based only on sight, while Lotto Singer (or All Together Now, as the UK version is known) makes an almost bingo-like game with a judging panel of 100 people.
2021 September 15, Laura Martin, “How talent shows became TV's most bizarre programmes”, in BBC - broadlyA situation in which there is insufficient information, requiring participants to rely on conjecture.
Translations
Finnish arvausleikki
- arvausleikkigame the object of which is for a player or players to guess a word, etc
German Ratespiel
- Ratespielgame the object of which is for a player or players to guess a word, etc
Italian indovinello, quiz
- indovinellogame the object of which is for a player or players to guess a word, etc
- quizgame the object of which is for a player or players to guess a word, etc
Polish zgadywanka
- zgadywankagame the object of which is for a player or players to guess a word, etc
Spanish adivinanzas
- adivinanzasgame the object of which is for a player or players to guess a word, etc
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APA
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Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “guessing game,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/guessing%20game.
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