charades

And they came to the beautiful house and made merry, played "guessing words" -- what we call charades, quite a new thing then -- and it made no end of merriment.

A Little Girl in Old Salem

When we appear to be no more than holodeck characters, it will be very difficult to maintain charades like dualism.

The Memory Hole

If I don’t get the language right away, it’s okay, charades is cross-cultural

Jenni's life at the moment

Hollywood types play a variation called running charades, which is like a charades relay race, running from room to room.

The Swell Dressed Party

One of the best actors in the charades was our father.

Memorials of a southern planter,

Try charades, which is a real eye opener about children's personalities.

Cayman Net News Daily Headlines

What we have to figure out how to do is to have a system that offers enough encouragement and assistance in real terms, not the kind of charades that we've seen over the last 12 years.

'We Are All In This Together'

But Julie is no less dismissive of what she calls the "charades" of the likes of T.E. Lawrence and Hester Stanhope.

Awakening

Some of these "charades" have been collected and printed for private circulation.

Jane Austen: Her Homes and Her Friends

Well, I don't go there because even the simplest question is met with a blank stare and you have to go into a "charades" mode to get an answer.

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