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Definition of Guessing game
1. Noun. A game in which participants compete to identify some obscurely indicated thing.
Definition of Guessing game
1. Noun. (games) Any 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. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Guessing Game
Literary usage of Guessing game
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Songs and Music of Friedrich Froebel's Mother Play (Mutter und Kose Lieder) by Friedrich Fröbel, Susan Elizabeth Blow (1895)
"Should you tell its prop - er name, You'll have won the guessing game ; Setz mf
ritard. ^ ^= =\=S£ a tempo. ue your tasting must be alow, That the fla- vor ..."
2. Alsea Texts and Myths by Leo Joachim Frachtenberg (1920)
"Then they would begin to play the guessing game. ... During a guessing game the
players were usually singing. Only here (it ends). VI. ..."
3. Live Language Lessons: Teachers' Manual by Howard Roscoe Driggs (1921)
"A Zoo guessing game Here the pupils are given a chance to make a little description
by filling the blanks. The seat work precedes the recitation. ..."
4. Guide Books to English by Charles Benajah Gilbert (1912)
"XVII A guessing game Review Play you are some object that all know about.
One child rises and says, " Guess what I am." Other children ask questions, ..."
5. Good English, Oral and Written by William Harris Elson, Lura E. Runkel, Clara E. Lynch (1917)
"guessing game. Would you like to play "Hide-and-go-seek" the way the boy and his
grandmother played it? You may have five guesses. ..."
6. Good English, Oral and Written by William Harris Elson, Lura E. Runkel, Clara E. Lynch, George Linnaeus Marsh (1920)
"guessing game. Would you like to play "Hide-and-go-seek" the way the boy and his
grandmother played it? You may have five guesses. ..."
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