blindman's buff

1. 1.

   a children's game in which a blindfolded player tries to catch and identify other players

   Synonymsblindman's bluff

   Broaderchild's game

Questions about blindman's buff

What does blindman's buff mean?

blindman's buff means "a children's game in which a blindfolded player tries to catch and identify other players".

What is another word for blindman's buff?

Close synonyms include blindman's bluff. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blindman's buff a common word?

blindman's buff is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.