guessing game
noun
: a game in which the player has to correctly guess the answer
—often used figuratively
Making a diagnosis in such cases can be a real guessing game.
Reporters continue to play a guessing game as they wait to hear her final decision.
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Jackie Calmes: The Trump veep guessing game is silly.
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Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2024
There was a guessing game in the Quickfire and a blank canvas waiting for the chefs’ creative expression in the Elimination Challenge.
—Rachel Bernhard, Journal Sentinel, 29 May 2024
With scandal swirling around him, the 82-year-old former monarch went missing, unleashing a guessing game in the Spanish media regarding his whereabouts.
—Omar G. Encarnación, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2020
The top of the stretch became a seven-wide guessing game, keeping outcomes of all sizes, stripes and degrees of unlikelihood alive exhiliratingly late in a race that sits on mothballs for 364 days.
—Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 May 2024
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Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2024
There was a guessing game in the Quickfire and a blank canvas waiting for the chefs’ creative expression in the Elimination Challenge.
—Rachel Bernhard, Journal Sentinel, 29 May 2024
With scandal swirling around him, the 82-year-old former monarch went missing, unleashing a guessing game in the Spanish media regarding his whereabouts.
—Omar G. Encarnación, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2020
The top of the stretch became a seven-wide guessing game, keeping outcomes of all sizes, stripes and degrees of unlikelihood alive exhiliratingly late in a race that sits on mothballs for 364 days.
—Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 May 2024
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“Guessing game.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/guessing%20game. Accessed 4 Jul. 2024.
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