Synonyms and antonyms of Quizzes, puzzles and guessing games in British Thesaurus

brain teaser (noun)

a difficult question or problem that you try to solve for fun

buzzer (noun)

used by players in a television or radio quiz programme to show that they know the answer to a question

charades (noun)

a game in which you can use only actions or movements to help the other players to guess a word or phrase

clue (noun)

a word or phrase provided to help you find an answer in a crossword

crossword (noun)

a word game on paper, in which the answers to questions called clues are written in rows of squares that cross each other so that some letters are shared

hangman (noun)

a word game in which one player has a limited number of chances to guess the other player’s word

jigsaw (noun)

a picture made of a lot of small pieces that you have to fit together

noughts and crosses (noun)

British a game for two players in which they take turns placing an X or an O in one of nine boxes until one player gets three Xs or three Os in a row

puzzle (noun)

a game consisting of many pieces that you have to fit together correctly

puzzle (noun)

a game consisting of a set of questions that you have to answer by thinking carefully

question master (noun)

British the person who asks players or teams questions in a quiz

quiz (noun)

a competition in which you answer questions

quizmaster (noun)

mainly American a question master

solution (noun)

the answer to a question in a puzzle, crossword etc

solve (verb)

to find the answer to a question in a puzzle, crossword etc

sudoku (noun)

a number game in which you fill a square of 81 smaller squares with the numbers 1 to 9 so that each row, column, and square of 9 squares contains each number only once

tick-tack-toe ()

another spelling of tic-tac-toe

tic-tac-toe (noun)

American the game of noughts and crosses

tiebreaker (noun)

an extra question asked at the end of a quiz to decide who will win when two players have the same number of points