Acted desperately on "Jeopardy!," perhaps

Usage examples of guessed.

Scanning the gantry, he guessed that when pushed he could reel off the names of over two dozen malts, straight from memory.

The Emergents were masters of fabric and ceramics, though Ezr guessed that bio-arts were nonexistent.

Several other commissioners whom Sanglier guessed held him in the same disdain frowned, too.

Lean-bodied, which she guessed to be from a natural metabolism, not any fixation on diet or exercise.

The response from the second man, whom Sanglier introduced as Superintendent Bruno Siemen, seconded from the organized crime bureau of the Bundeskriminalamt, was almost as obsequious and Claudine guessed Poulard had briefed the German while they waited outside.

There was no official reason why he couldn't see them, but Claudine guessed Sanglier, along with every other Europol psychologist, would hear of her sharing files and of Burrows' opinion within fifteen minutes of her making them available to the American.

Siobhan guessed that Cynthia Bessant had bought her warehouse conversion in the hope of being one of the early settlers in what would become Edinburgh’s equivalent of London’s Docklands.

Now they were on the move, heading for a doorway at the back where Siobhan guessed their clothes were hanging up.

The window itself could slide open, and she guessed that outside office hours, if anyone came to the site looking for a cab they had to stand at the window and offer details through the opening.

Finally Captain Park said, “You’ve probably guessed we have an impasse here, Apprentice Vinh.

Ezr suddenly guessed that Captain Park must be one of the supporters of sneak attack.

Some, like Jimmy, guessed that in fact the senior officers might occasionally be brought out, secretly, for interrogations and brief service.

You saw almost everything in the military, and everybody guessed straightaway.

I know, you’ve learned some things that enemies might make use of—clearly you’ve guessed my present job.

But his stupidity had betrayed a secret the enemy had never guessed, a secret that Ezr himself had never known, a secret that others must have taken to their deaths rather than give to Tomas Nau and Ritser Brughel.