guessing game

collocation in English

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guess
noun[C]
uk
/ɡes/us
/ɡes/
an attempt to give the right answer when you are not certain if you ...
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game
noun
uk
/ɡeɪm/us
/ɡeɪm/
an entertaining activity or sport, especially one played by children, or the equipment needed for such ...
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(Definition ofguessandgamefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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To some degree, therefore, the managers are involved in little more than aguessinggame.
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Thus, there's just no way to win this vocabularyguessinggame.
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Why ask them to indulge in a costlyguessinggame?
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This is, to some degree, aguessinggame.
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At the same time we are drawn into theguessinggameof when and how the secret will be revealed and what will follow.
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If so, theguessinggamethat lorry drivers usually play will have to end.
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Those who operate on a cash basis will face a difficultguessinggame.
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I am afraid that there are no prizes in thisguessinggame.
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Shape dance andguessinggame3.
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Tiring of theguessinggame, some newspapers descended to satire.
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I do not, however, intend to enter the lists of theguessinggameas regards his successor.
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I venture to suggest it is time judges were relieved of the need to enter into this particularguessinggame.
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Looking to the future, one might almost rename the debate after the oldguessinggame: animal, vegetable or mineral.
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Politicians are indulging in a humourlessguessinggameas to what the price may be that he has in mind.
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The apparent naturalism of the language and the clear allusion to representation can make the unattributed dashes appear gratuitous or pretentious - why turn normal dialogue into a pointlessguessinggame?
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That the balance sheet of a statutory company should be made the subject of a frivolousguessinggameis really going too far.
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It is clear that the nationalguessinggamecontinues and that we may be down to 43 or, in a bad week, to 28.
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We have already entered into an interestingguessinggameas to how many authorities south of the border will fall victim to that ploy.
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Then they play aguessinggameof how many spots on the butterfly.
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The rocks were mismatched and pitted which reduced shotmaking to aguessinggame.
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One hopes that they will be able to project what their tax liability might be in the current year, but it is an enormousguessinggame.
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One important part of the custom was aguessinggameto determine the identity of the visitors.
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He is not very knowledgeable about popular music, failing to name more than four bands in a musicalguessinggame.
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