parlor-game

More in sports With the Olympic Games approaching, The Wall Street Journal set out to answer this parlor-game question: If Earth had to send one man to the Intergalactic Olympics, who should go?

The World's Greatest Athlete? 2008

As noted previously, right now -- a month after the '06 mid-terms -- it's all speculation and parlor-game guessing.

December 2006 2006

More than posing a parlor-game riddle, though, the EPR's resurgence presents big political and economic challenges.

In a Modernizing Mexico, 2007

Historians and biographers like to play the parlor-game of finding a single small action or decision which, seen in retrospect, affects the future of men and women in public life - and may thereby change the course of history.

THE MISCASTING OF CONGRESSMAN LANTOS 2007

These are not parlor-game demonstrations of human stupidity.

Daniel Kahneman - Autobiography 2003

“It would be useful to visit the island,” he said finally, knowing it would elicit another parlor-game smile from Chapeav.

Cyclops One Jim DeFelice 2003

Mafia is a parlor-game that has stolen the lives of about half the people I know.

Boing Boing: September 2, 2001 - September 8, 2001 Archives 2001

I don't know, but we met up and I guess she liked my parlor-game performance and thinks that I should be in her next incredibly incendiary play in the fall!

Off With My Arm! 2003

“It would be useful to visit the island,” he said finally, knowing it would elicit another parlor-game smile from Chapeav.

Cyclops One Jim DeFelice 2003

The field of parapsychology did not exist then; or rather, it existed only in the rappings with whispered fan­tasies and knockings of parlor-game seances.

Prayers To Broken Stones Simmons, Dan 1990