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单词 parlour game
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Definition of parlour game in English:

parlour game

noun
  • An indoor game, especially a word game.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Common parlor games, like chess or poker, have well-specified rules and are generally zero-sum games, making cooperation with the other player unproductive.
    • Goose is much more accessible as a parlor game than Labyrinth, and it lends itself to being a gambling game as much as family entertainment.
    • Adam and his wife invite the narrator to a party to play Mafia, a complicated parlor game, one followed by a more dangerous game emotionally called ‘I Never,’ a kind of truth-or-dare.
    • She is constantly studying and she plays games - word games, parlour games and card games, to keep her mind sharp.
    • Composing a Borgesian alternative biography for those forfeited years would make for the perfect parlour game if parlours, like Scottish writers of genius, still survived.
    • Parts of the pantomime come directly from the parlour games which the Victorians, who have given us so much of our current-day celebration, absolutely loved.
    • Some have inevitably questioned why a serious publication should be dabbling in such parlour games and the list's oversights have drawn comment - for instance, it features only 12 women.
    • Began as a parlour game in the 1880s, and the first UK Table Tennis Association was founded in 1901.
    • The book opens with another of its themes, the parlor game Sincerity, in which players go around the table telling precisely three lies and one truth and points are earned for distinguishing between them.
    • But where would Christmas be without parlour games - and so this year, in the light, or indeed the gloom, of the previous conversation, we invent one called Mad Cow Escape.
    • We play these parlour games, we play at make believe
    • There are a handful of games for children, a seemingly endless series of rehashes of Victorian parlor games, war games, and that's it.
    • The last couple of series has been all table tipping, bells and whistles and all those Victorian parlour games made popular by the kind of mediums the late Harry Houdini made it his life's work to discredit.
    • There was fine food, parlour games and plenty of drink to beef up the party when an East Yorkshire farmer threw a birthday bash… for his beloved cow's 21st.
    • The exhibit features revised versions of classic board and parlour games which address the needs of people with disabilities.
    • We studied all the successful parlour games from the last century to see what attributes a compulsive game needed and we came up with Cranium.
    • The parlour game would be called ‘Musical persons in charge of meetings’.
    • Naming a British team has been a parlour game for years among the sort of football supporters who only part with their anoraks at bath time.
    • Do you remember last summer, when this site indulged in a parlour game called Consequences?
    • In Central Australia it's either too hot or too cold to do anything else and I'm far too tired and grumpy for parlour games.
 
 
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