parlour game

noun

1. an informal indoor game

Example Sentences

Westminster's favourite parlour game - "how many letters of no confidence have been submitted to Sir Graham Brady?" - is up and running again.

From BBC

The paper's chief theatre critic Arifa Akbar wrote that the play was "breathtaking theatre with its own arresting imagination" and "not just a clever parlour game for fans".

From BBC

And so here is my advice on the off chance this parlour game so beloved here crops up in your day-to-day conversation.

From BBC

Speaking to the Times, he said he will be holding on to his current job and accused Tory MPs of playing "political parlour games".

From BBC

Assessing celebrity bookcases is a pandemic parlour game.

From The Guardian