How to Use guessing game in a Sentence

guessing game

noun
Definition of guessing gamenext
  • Say goodbye to the guessing game and make an informed choice.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The first two episodes have already given us plenty of clues to start the guessing game.
    — Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Shine the spotlight on the graduate with a guessing game on who truly knows them the most amongst the guests.
    — Angela Belt, House Beautiful, 29 Mar. 2023
  • In the high-stakes two-person guessing game, players aim to be the first to sink the other’s ships and crash the other’s planes.
    — Cheryl Fenton, Parents, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Book Flights Now Knowing when to book your flights has always been a bit of a guessing game.
    — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 2 Nov. 2023
  • In any case, my guessing game was only okay today, but this was a tricky word.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • As a result, lining up beard trims or side burns is no longer a guessing game.
    — Tom Price, Popular Mechanics, 23 June 2023
  • The guessing game of the inactive list The first inactive list of the season is a puzzle.
    — Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, 8 Sep. 2023
  • So the guessing game is on: Who would best capture the essence of the mercurial, meme-loving tech mogul on the big screen?
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The coming weeks will bring a winnowing of the large field and a guessing game about whether anyone new will enter the field.
    — Susan Page, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The coming weeks will bring a winnowing of the large field and a guessing game about whether anyone new will enter the fray.
    — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The other two spots are a guessing game, but the Emmy voters’ love for The Crown suggests Staunton has a decent shot.
    — Vulture, 11 July 2023
  • Fairbanks has a guessing game where folks bet the day and hour of the first official goose landing at Creamer’s Field.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Apr. 2023
  • In 1988, the guessing game Barbarossa debuted in stores.
    — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The guessing game didn’t last long, as many pinpointed Danielle’s silhouette in the comments.
    — Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 3 May 2023
  • Each spring for more than 100 years, residents have organized a high-stakes guessing game over when the ice will break up on the Tanana River.
    — Erin Donaghue, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Before the official announcement, Vulture decided to get in on the fun and play a bit of a guessing game.
    — Vulture, 7 Nov. 2023
  • But predicting exactly when the changing leaves will peak has always been a bit of a guessing game.
    — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Hamaguchi and Kitase worked to create a sort of guessing game with Rebirth, designed to keep players on their toes.
    — Ash Parrish, The Verge, 29 Feb. 2024
  • However, that doesn’t mean business is a guessing game.
    — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 8 Feb. 2024
  • One of the best parts of the reality TV show in my opinion is the guessing game that kicks off before the competition has even begun.
    — Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 6 Mar. 2023
  • While 2024 is likely to feature a Wall Street guessing game over when the Fed will cut rates, most experts seem to agree on one thing: the days of near-zero interest rates are over.
    — Will Daniel, Fortune, 23 Dec. 2023
  • When to tap is an annual guessing game for sugar makers.
    — Ashley Stimpson, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Played in three rounds, Celebrity is a guessing game that requires only pens, paper, a bowl and a timer, which everyone already has on their phone.
    — Contributing Writer Emily Farris, Kansas City Star, 30 Jan. 2024
  • That guessing game will continue for a while—only a few pages of the report were released, with the rest now in the hands of Fani Willis, the Fulton County district attorney.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2023
  • After days of a public guessing game over who the mystery man behind the alleged crime could be, Huw Edwards released a statement via his wife, Vicky Flind.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2023
  • But the guessing game has already begun in Milwaukee's Catholic circles.
    — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Selecting which strains to target is a guessing game—one that scientists can’t always win.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 9 Oct. 2023
  • My research team demonstrated a quantum speed-up for a random number guessing game.
    — Daniel Lidar, Discover Magazine, 23 Nov. 2023
  • During the guessing game phenomenon of 2022, travel lovers got their own game spreading its green and yellow squares across the internet.
    — Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 7 June 2023

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