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A game where confidence is the only skill that actually transfers.
means An activity or situation where you must figure out the answer through repeated trial, hunch, and inference rather than being told directly.
from A plain compound of 'guess' (from Middle English gessen, likely related to Scandinavian words for 'reckon' or 'think,' as in Swedish gissa) plus 'game' — the sense of guessing as a structured, reckoning kind of play is old, but the literal phrase 'guessing game' is a straightforward 19th-century English formation naming exactly what it is: a game built around guesses.
- origin
- Ancient divination rituals disguised as party tricks
- 20 questions
- Optimal play narrows any answer in 20 binary splits
- psychology
- Players overvalue first guesses due to anchoring bias
- irony
- Pricing is right only when you guess just under