blind man's bluff

[keannu]

Do you happen to know the origin of the term "blind man's bluff "? Why is it called bluff? "bluff" is something like "making exaggeration", which seems unrelated to it.

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ex)One afternoon recently my eighty-year-old mother was walking home and noticed several young children playing blind man's bluff on the lawn next door...

 

[JMurray]

The game was originally called "blind man's buff", with "buff" meaning a small push. This makes sense when one pictures the blind-folded person stumbling around bumping into the other players.
See: Blind man's buff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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