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{{short description|Word guessing game}}
{{for multi|the 1998 film|Charades (film)|other uses|Charade (disambiguation)}}
[[File:Game of Charades - 01.jpg|thumb|right|Man acting out a word
'''Charades''' ({{IPAc-en|UK|ʃ|ə|ˈ|r|ɑː|d|z}}, {{IPAc-en|US|ʃ|ə|ˈ|r|eɪ|d|z}})<ref name=oed>{{citation |contribution=charade, ''n.'' |title=Oxford English Dictionary, ''3rd ed.'' |date=2014 |location=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |contribution-url=http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/30661}}.</ref> is a [[parlor game|parlor]] or [[party game|party]] [[word game|word]] [[guessing game]]. Originally, the game was a dramatic form of literary charades: a single person would act out each syllable of a word or phrase in order, followed by the whole phrase together, while the rest of the group guessed. A variant was to have teams who acted scenes out together while the others guessed. Today, it is common to require the actors to [[mime]] their hints without using any spoken words, which requires some conventional [[gesture]]s. [[Pun]]s and [[visual pun]]s were and remain common.
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