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A later version, also known as Electronic Catch Phrase, is an electronic game (a device similar in appearance to the original version) with integrated phrase list, timer, and scoring. The game unit has a LCD screen to display the words and buttons to start the timer, advance play, and assign points to teams. Teams must guess the entire phrase ...
Hangman is a guessing game for two or more players. One player thinks of a word, phrase, or sentence and the other (s) tries to guess it by suggesting letters or numbers within a certain number of guesses. Originally a paper-and-pencil game, there are now electronic versions.
Mode (s) Single-player. Wordle is a web-based word game created and developed by Welsh software engineer Josh Wardle. Players have six attempts to guess a five-letter word, with feedback given for each guess in the form of coloured tiles indicating when letters match or occupy the correct position. Wordle has a single daily solution, with all ...
Taboo is a word, guessing, and party game published by Parker Brothers in 1989 (subsequently purchased by Hasbro ). [ 1] The objective of the game is for a player to have their partners guess the word on the player's card without using the word itself or five additional words listed on the card. The game is similar to Catch Phrase, also from ...
Charades ( UK: / ʃəˈrɑːdz /, US: / ʃəˈreɪdz /) [ 1] is a parlor or party word guessing game. Originally, the game was a dramatic form of literary charades: a single person would act out each syllable of a word or phrase in order, followed by the whole phrase together, while the rest of the group guessed. A variant was to have teams who ...
Pictionary ( / ˈpɪkʃənəri /, US: /- ɛri /) is a charades -inspired word-guessing game invented by Robert Angel with graphic design by Gary Everson and first published in 1985 by Angel Games Inc. [ 1] Angel Games licensed Pictionary to Western Publishing. Hasbro purchased the rights in 1994 after acquiring the games business of Western ...
Catchphrase. (British game show) Catchphrase is a British game show based on the short-lived American game show of the same name. It originally aired in the United Kingdom between 12 January 1986 and 23 April 2004. [ 5] A revival premiered on ITV1 on 7 April 2013 and is still running as of 2024.
Guesstimate is an informal English portmanteau of guess and estimate, first used by American statisticians in 1934 [ 1] or 1935. [ 2] It is defined as an estimate made without using adequate or complete information, [ 3][ 4] or, more strongly, as an estimate arrived at by guesswork or conjecture. [ 2][ 5][ 6] Like the words estimate and guess ...