guessing game
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3.4
- noun
- /ˈɡɛsɪŋ ɡeɪm/
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juego de adivinanzas
- The children laughed as they played a guessing game using animal sounds to identify the creatures.
- play a guessing game
What men don't want to have to deal with is playing a guessing game with their woman.
- What men don't want to have to deal with is playing a guessing game with their woman.
- He's happy that he doesn't have to play this guessing game with you.
- The good news is that you don't have to play the guessing game.
- Ask her a fun question, keep it light or playing a guessing game.
- Somehow it's come down to mere guessing game.
- So it's it's kind of me playing the guessing game and kind of trying to piece this giant puzzle along as we read this.
Examples
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Are we playing a guessing game here?
Fiction book (2002) -
Battleship (also Battleships or Sea Battle) is a guessing game for two players.
Blog text (13) -
Love is... a guessing game.
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Wanna play a guessing game?
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Do you like guessing games?
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We are still playing guessing games with matters that may actually determine the fate of the planet.
Academic text (1992) -
Riddles and guessing games are very popular with Egyptian children and adults.
Academic text (1992) -
Guess in Battleship: D-TEN Battleship is a remarkably fun guessing game that I used to play as a child.
Blog text (7) -
At the party, we enjoyed a fun guessing game where we had to figure out each other's favorite movies.
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During game night, we played a guessing game that involved hints about famous characters.
Synonyms
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3.5
A game where people draw pictures for others to guess words or phrases
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2.9
A game where players guess letters to find a hidden word
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3.4
A game where players act out words or phrases without speaking while others guess
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4.6
An online word game where you try to guess a five-letter word in six tries
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a game in which participants try to identify something' is directly and compositionally derived from 'guessing' (the act of estimating) + 'game' (a recreational contest). This noun+noun combination follows a transparent, cross-linguistically common pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Guessing game comes from simple party games where one person hides an object or gives small clues and others must guess what it is. So we now call any unclear situation where people try to 'find out' something with little information a 'guessing game'.