Charades

Charades or charade (/ʃəˈrɑːdz/ shə-RAHDZ or /ʃəˈreɪdz/ shə-RAYDZ) is a word guessing game. A player acts out a word or phrase and the other players attempt to guess what the word or phrase is in a certain amount of time. The person who is acting usually pantomimes similar sounding words. The game has also been adapted into television shows like Acting Crazy, Party Game, Give Us a Clue, Body Language and Celebrity Charades.

Charades Media

• Game of Charades - 01.jpg

  Man acting out a word (horned animal?) in the game of charades

• The Triumph of Clytemnestra

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  Becky as a Louis-Quatorze Philomela

• Game of Charades - 02.jpg

  Group guessing the acted-out phrase in the game of charades.

• Charades, "two words".jpg

  A player using two fingers to signal to his teammates that the answer has two words

Other websites

• The rules for Charades Archived 2011-09-27 at the Wayback Machine