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Hoodwinked: (Verb) Tricked or deceived.

  • Concealed one's true motives from, especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end.
  • To cause to accept what is false, especially by trickery or misrepresentation.
  • Beguile, betray, bluff, cozen, deceive, delude, double-cross, dupe, fool, humbug, mislead, take in, trick, bamboozle, have. Idioms: lead astray, play false, pull the wool over someone's eyes, put something over on, take for a ride.

Hoodwinked - The Live Game Show

Hoodwinked is a game of bluff, deception & hilarity, hosted by Marcus Jones and played by an all-star rotating panel of comedians & other comically inclined personalities.

Hoodwinked is a cross between Blankety Blanks, Spicks & Specks, Whose Line is it Anyway? and nothing else you’ve ever seen (!!!).Using the same bluffing principle as board game "Balderdash" and the old "Dictionary" parlour game, Hoodwinked is NOT a test of knowledge. Players are NOT expected to know the real answers to any of the questions. Many of the real answers will seem unbelievable. The main objective is to concoct answers that will fool other players. The real battle is not over who wins, but who wins the biggest laughs.

Sample Questions & Answers


One of each of these answers is real. The rest have been penned to hoodwink and deceive (real answers revealed at bottom).

Q1. The collective noun for a group of Cobras?

  1. a Wink of Cobras.
  2. a Screw of Cobras.
  3. a Sly of Cobras.
  4. a Quiver of Cobras.
  5. a Salute of Cobras.
  6. a Slint of Cobras.
  7. a Snare of Cobras.

Q2. The definition of the word "Jumentous".

  1. A legal term, meaning guilt by folly (inadvertent guilt).
  2. Pompous and boring.
  3. Anticipation of a disappointing situation.
  4. To be fantastically Jewish.
  5. Smelling like horse urine.
  6. Unintentionally provocative.
  7. A dyslexic Italian soccer club.

Q3. Name the horse sired by DRACULA (father), out of SANTA'S VIXEN (Dam/Mother), born 6 December 2002.

  1. Count on Santa.
  2. Neck the Halls.
  3. Donna the Vampire Sleigher.
  4. Foxy Vlad.
  5. Christmas Claret.
  6. Blood on the Snow.
  7. Silent Bite.

Q4. Name the film from this TV Guide description: "A NANNY MASTERMINDS THE KIDNAPPPING OF A MAFIA DON".

  1. Making An Offer.
  2. Gangster's Lullaby.
  3. The Goatfather.
  4. Don of Daycare.
  5. The Godmother Plan.
  6. Every Little Crook and Nanny.
  7. Past Luigi's Bedtime.

Q5. What is AULOPHOBIA a fear of?

  1. Fear of flutes.
  2. Fear of gloves.
  3. Fear of having foreign objects in one's ears.
  4. Fear of greeting people.
  5. Fear of going deaf,
  6. Fear of deaf people.
  7. Fear of dwarves.

Q6. What does BOANTHROPY mean?

  1. The study of constrictor snakes.
  2. A type of insanity in which a man thinks he’s an ox.
  3. Illness or disease caused by doctors or a prescribed treatment.
  4. To watch people silently while they are eating, hoping they will ask you to join them.
  5. The forensic science focussing on skeletal remains.
  6. A reptilian disease that reduces flexibility of a snake's scales, and also its mobility.
  7. A disease that affects the lungs and throat.

Q7. Which band released the album “Reeled and skinned”?

  1. Hook, Line & Sinker.
  2. Shrill Mermaid.
  3. Catch a Banshee.
  4. Red Snapper.
  5. Fish Fingers.
  6. Street Trawler.
  7. Big Ass Shark.

Q8. What was the film "The Fifth Monkey" about?

  1. A zookeeper’s life turns upside down soon after taking delivery of a rare primate.
  2. A newly married man attempts to sell four monkeys so he can buy a gift for his bride.
  3. A foreign aid worker unwittingly unleashes a lethal virus on his home town.
  4. A mentally handicapped boy is befriended by a circus monkey.
  5. Biopic about Daniel Sutherland, mastermind of 60's Television & Music phenomenom, "The Monkeys".
  6. An archaeologist's discovery triggers a dangerous sequence of events.
  7. Dramatises the life of Charles Darwin.

 

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THE ACTUAL ANSWERS

Q1. The collective noun for a group of Cobras?

4. a Quiver of Cobras.

Q2. The definition of the word "Jumentous".

5. Smelling like horse urine.

Q3. Name the horse sired by DRACULA (father), out of SANTA'S VIXEN (Dam/Mother) on 6 December 2002.

2. Neck the Halls.

Q4. Name the film with this TV Guide description:
"A NANNY MASTERMINDS THE KIDNAPPPING OF A MAFIA DON".

6. Every Little Crook and Nanny.

Q5. What is AULOPHOBIA a fear of?

1. Fear of Flutes.

Q6. What does BOANTHROPY mean?

2. A type of insanity in which a man thinks he’s an ox.

Q7. Which band released the album “Reeled and skinned”?

4. Red Snapper.

Q8. What was the film "The Fifth Monkey" about?

2. A newly married man attempts to sell four monkeys so he can buy a gift for his bride.


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