Guess Who is one of the guessing games in board games to be played as indoor party games between two players, each one of whom is provided with an identical board that contains cartoon images of 24 people titled by their first names only.

Ora and Theo Coster created the game and that is why it is also known with the name of Theora Design, taking its ending 'ra' from Ora and the beginning 'Theo' from Theo Coster. Milton Bradley from Great Britain manufactured it first in 1979. Later in 1982, it was introduced in the United States.

As the game starts, each player randomly selects a card from a separate pile of cards containing the same 24 images. Now each one of the two is supposed to guess as to which card the opponent has selected. This is done by asking various 'yes' and 'no' type questions (like, "Is your person a male? or "Is your person wearing a hat?") in order to go on eliminating the images falling 'impossible' to be the one that is there on the opponent's card.

Whoever guesses it right first, becomes the winner of that particular game. Always the winner of the third game is the winner of a series of three games instead of the winner of two out of three game.

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I Spy game is one of Guessing Word Games in categories Car Games and Family Games under Party Games to play by two or more people together.

The game is generally played among the family members especially children on the way when the family is out on an excursion in a car. The game sharpens observation as well as familiarity with the alphabets of the language, the language belonging to any part of the world.

The player who starts the game chooses an object and says - "I spy with my little eye, something beginning with ..." (whatever the letter is). The rest of the players guess through observing what the initiator might have chosen in her/his mind. The one who guesses it right first becomes the initiator for the next round.

In a speeding car, if the object that the initiator had chosen outside the car goes out of sight, the initiator is supposed to add - "I can't see it any more now" or "I can see it now" in case it again becomes visible.

At times the object to be guessed may need being described with a phrase rather than with a single word, in which case all the first letters of the words constituting the phrase are to be mentioned. Even colors and sounds can be the clue in order to guess the object framing the sentence something like - "I spy with my little eye something that is yellow" or something like - "I hear with my little ear..."

Generally no scores are kept and a win decides who to initiate next since I Spy game as one of the Guessing Word Games in the categories Car Games and Family Games under Party Games is more fun to enjoy than challenge to win.

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Hangman is one of many popular guessing word games falling in the category of indoor party games and is played with a paper and pencil along (though the computer versions are also available) by two or more players taking part in the game.

One of the players thinks of a word in her/his mind. The rest of the players are supposed to guess the same letter by letter, one letter at a time.

The one, who has decided the word, counts the letter in it and draws as many dashes on a piece of paper, each dash representing the letters of the word in order.

The guessing player/s guess a letter trying to fix 12 most commonly occurring letters e-t-a-o-i-n-s-h-r-d-l-u first, whereas the leader tries to think of words that use them the least. If the letter guessed happens to be in the word, the leader fills the same wherever it should fit in the word replacing its dash/es. But if it doesn't, the leader draws one element of the hangman-diagram known as a 'tally mark' in the game, denoting hanging the guessing players element by element.

If all the dashes are replaced by letters before all the elements of the diagram are drawn, the guessing player/s win/s the game. If not, they lose it to the player who had initially thought the word.

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Catch Phrase is famous among guessing word games widely played as one of popular indoor party games.

It is designed and commercially distributed by Hasbro.

The game package comes comprising either a timer and a plastic disc containing 72 words on each side or else as a stand-alone electronic device with a random list of words.

The timer is set and the game starts and the goal of each player in turn from both the teams is to make the team guess the displayed word through gestures or sounds not rhyming or matching with the word in question.

Once a team is over with a word whether with a successful guess or with a pass, the other team takes its turn and the game continues till the timer keeps running.

As and when the timer runs out, the team not in play gets a bonus point along with a chance to guess the current word and win a bonus point.

The first team to reach 7 points wins the game.

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Charades is one of the guessing word games standing quite popular among indoor party games throughout the world.

Players are basically supposed to act out a word or a phrase through mono acting without resorting to the use of language whether vocally or with gestures.

The target of the player is to make her/his team rightly guess what s/he was trying to convey.

In the beginning, each player of both the teams writes a word or a phrase on a piece of paper and puts it in a container from where the other team takes all of them out one by one, one by each player to act.

The guess-work is allowed only a limited duration of time after which another player from the opposing team comes forward to act out her/his piece of pantomime.

The game ends when all the players have had their turn and the winner decided by the score kept during the course of the game.

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Botticelli is quite a popular one among fun party games falling under the category guessing games, which children and adults play alike.

The players are supposed to have some knowledge about the famous persons whose names are to be guessed correctly basing on the knowledge of their first letter along with their famous biographical details.

The person to be guessed is supposed to be at least as famous as Sandro Botticelli from whose name the game adopted its own.

The chooser thinks of a famous person and reveals the first letter of her/his name.

The game starts in the indirect mode first in which each guesser asks the chooser a yes/no question in order to narrow down the guessing process before the direct mode starts.

In the direct mode a guesser asks a series of yes/no questions and keeps asking till s/he keeps getting a yes answer for her/his questions.

If no one is able to guess correctly, the chooser reveals the name and takes a second turn at selecting another name.

The game ends with a guesser correctly identifying the choosers selection, who then becomes the chooser and the game proceeds further as before.

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