twenty questions
Noun
Meaning
twenty questions (uncountable)
A spoken parlour game in which one player chooses an object or concept and the others have twenty yes-no questions to identify what it is.
Examples
Six questions respects it. Twenty questions doesn't.
Another interview type section, entitled "20Q" (a play on the game of Twenty Questions ), was added in October 1978.
Guesses can be chosen for trial strategically, for their caution (for which Peirce gave as example the game of Twenty Questions ), breadth, and incomplexity.
Guesses can be selected for trial strategically, for their caution (for which Peirce gave as example the game of Twenty Questions ), breadth, or incomplexity.
On Twenty Questions, p. 109: Thus, twenty skillful hypotheses will ascertain what 200,000 stupid ones might fail to do.