Entertaining game played by several children or adults for the purpose of pastime or amusement.
Group game played indoors.
1 They keep me in the room, a parlour game : come watch this ur-adult.
2 In this simple parlour game players are presented with several piles of matches.
3 As he spoke, the so-called parlour game was in full swing.
4 There is a kind of parlour game one can play here.
5 Quite a little parlour game - sort of three-cardtrick, is it not?
6 The Six Nations is gone, which means the grand parlour game can now begin.
7 Once a traditional parlour game , bridge has been hit by two separate cheating scandals.
8 THE search for the Great American Novel is an amusing if aimless literary parlour game .
9 Still, the speculation makes for a fine parlour game .
10 Here's a traditional parlour game that might help.
11 In another parlour game of a rather interesting kind the youngest in the room begins by saying-
12 It would make a good parlour game .
13 There is an exciting new parlour game .
14 Table turning as a parlour game is about as stupid and aimless an amusement as I know.
15 It has become a parlour game to try and spot modern trends that Tocqueville foresaw 160 years ago.
16 Condemning welfare is a popular parlour game among those who don't have to worry about their next meal.
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