blind man's buff

noun

1. a game in which a blindfolded person tries to catch and identify the other players

Word History and Origins

Origin of blind man's buff¹

C16: buff, perhaps from Old French buffe a blow; see buffet ²

Example Sentences

The ecclesiastical delegates who had come to investigate the report of the strange death of the birds and the sacrifice of the Wandering Jew found Father Antonio Isabel playing blind man's buff with the children, and thinking that his report was the product of a hallucination, they took him off to an asylum.

From Literature

She could hawk with a merlin, or play blind man’s buff, or pince-merille.

From Literature

While at the Pavilion, Napoleon encouraged horseplay, and threw himself into games of blind man’s buff and hide and seek, while also forming a more serious alliance with the amiable William.

From The Guardian

What begins as blind man’s buff acquires a touch of soccer before turning into a group waltz sequence, while the relationships turn into diverse facets of romantic love — with elements of role-playing and deceit, as well as conventional courtship.

From New York Times

Although his designs don’t show portraits, they do show types – the majos and majas who gave Madrid its street swagger, peasants and rich men, courting couples, singers, hunters, children, and young men and women playing blind man’s buff or tossing a mannequin into the air.

From The Guardian