NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Guessing game

A guessing game is a game in which the object is to guess some kind of information, such as a word, a phrase, a title, or the location of an object. A game is a recreational activity involving one or more players. ...

Many of the games are played co-operatively. Some player(s) know the answer, but cannot tell the other(s), instead they must help them to guess it.

Categories: Guessing games The own fleet is already damaged The game Battleship is a guessing game played by two people. ... Charades or charade is a word guessing game. ... This article is about the game Hangman. ... The I-Spy books were spotters guides written for English children, particularly successful in the 1950s and 60s. ... Mastermind is a simple code-breaking board game for two players, invented in 1970 by Mordecai Meirowitz, an Israeli postmaster. ... Name That Tune was a game show that put two contestants against each other to test their knowledge of songs. ... Pictionary is a team board game created by Rob Angel in which players try to identify specific words which their teammates drawings try to illustrate under time pressure. ... Quizbowl (or Quiz-bowl or quiz bowl) i a family of games of questions and answers on all topics of human knowledge, commonly played in high school and college. ... Seekipedia is a guessing game using articles in Wikipedia. ... Twenty Questions is a popular spoken parlour game for two or more players. ... Whos closest is a guessing game, often played at parties or on long journeys because it requires no board or other materials. ... Guess Who? is a two-player guessing game first manufactured by Milton Bradley in the 1980s. ...