parlor game

noun

: a game suitable for playing indoors

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Austin American-Statesman 0:00 0:41 One of the parlor games heading to the 2024 presidential election is, who has more to lose — Joe Biden or Donald Trump — if Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gets a place on the Texas ballot? —

John C. Moritz, Austin American-Statesman, 5 May 2024 What lies beyond the Wall is death itself; what happens down south, by comparison, is parlor games. —

Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 16 June 2024 Ellison killed the most egregious psychopath among a clan of murderous brothers, who are now galloping across entire prairies to get revenge; there could be a fun parlor game counting up the Westerns based on this configuration. —

Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 7 Sep. 2024 The eponymous parlor game ensues… until one character winds up really, truly dead. —

Dennis Perkins and Chris Bellamy, EW.com, 5 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for parlor game