What is "blind man's bluff"

n. (context chiefly US games English) (alternative form of blind man's buff English)

Blind man's bluff may refer to:

• Blind man's buff, a children's game related to tag
• Blind man's bluff (poker), a version of poker
• Blind Man's Bluff (1936 film), a British film
• Blind Man's Bluff (1952 film), a 1952 British film directed by Charles Saunders
• Blind Man's Bluff (1977 film)
• Blind Man's Bluff (1992 film), a 1992 American film starring Robert Urich
• "Blind Man's Bluff", an episode of the TV series All Grown Up!
• Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage, a 1998 nonfiction book
• One of seven paintings
  • Blind Man's Buff (Beckmann)
  • Blind Man's Bluff (Fragonard)
  • Blind Man's Bluff (Giraud)
  • Blind Man's Bluff (Goya)
  • Blind Man's Bluff (Kleehaas)
  • Blind Man's Bluff (Lisse)
  • Blind Man's Bluff (Saunier)

Blind man's bluff (also called Indian poker, or squaw poker or Oklahoma forehead or Indian head) is a version of poker that is unconventional in that each person sees the cards of all players except his own.

The standard version is simply high card wins. Each player is dealt one card that he displays to all other players (traditionally stuck to the forehead facing outwards- supposedly like an Indian feather). This is followed by a round of betting. Players attempt to guess if they have the highest card based on the distribution of visible cards and how other players are betting.

Other versions (forehead stud) are variations on stud poker, in which one or more of the hole cards is hidden from its owner, but shown to all other players, as above. During its coverage of the 2004 World Series of Poker, ESPN showed a Blind Man's Bluff version of Texas hold'em. Blind Man's Bluff is commonly referred to as "Oklahoma forehead" throughout the central United States.

The First Blind Man's Bluff World Championship took place at the paddypowerpoker.com Irish Winter Festival in October 2010.

Blind Man's Bluff (Spanish: La gallina ciega) is one of the Rococo oil-on-linen cartoons produced by the Spanish artist Francisco de Goya for tapestries for the Royal Palace of El Pardo. The work shows boys and girls playing the popular pastime " blind man's buff" with one figure in the middle blindfolded and holding a large spoon while trying to entice others dancing around him in a circle.

The children are dressed in the attire of Spanish aristocrats. Some wear velvet jackets and feather headdresses.

The picture is an example of Goya's Rococo period, and is typically lively and with a soft color scheme of pink and yellow in the skirts of women and luminous background scenery. As with many of his tapestry cartoons, it captures a charming moment of life.

Blind Man's Bluff (French: Le collin maillard) is a painting by the French Rococo painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard, produced around 1769 in oil on canvas. It is full of deceptions – the girl is looking out from under her blindfold and the game seems to be a pretext leading to seduction; the two figures are in pastoral costume, but may be noble or bourgeois figures playing at being pastoral figures; the background seems to be a wood but could be a stage set. In short, it seems to abolish the boundary between truth and lies, reality and fiction.

The Toledo Museum of Art describes the work "Playfully erotic and sensuously painted, Jean-Honoré Fragonard's scene of youthful flirtation fulfils the eighteenth-century aristocratic French taste for romantic pastoral themes. The figures are beautifully dressed in rustic but improbably clean and fashionable clothes; the woman's shoes even have elegant bows on them."

The painting was intended to accompany The See-Saw (1750) 1, currently, held by the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, in Madrid. Both are painted in the style and spirit of Fragonard's master François Boucher. Boucher's training can be seen in the ornamental flourishes of flowers and trees. But Fragonard's own skill may be seen in the brilliant composition. Blindman's bluff can be seen as a metaphor for courtship, while the rocking of the see-saw would clearly be a metaphor for the act of lovemaking itself.

Another painting of the same name was completed by Fragonard, after the artist’s second journey to Italy in 1773–74, between about 1775 and 1780. In this more expansive version well-dressed men, women and children play the familiar game in a picturesque overgrown garden. Fragonard’s favorite subject, he may have viewed the games as symbolizing the game of courtship. The painting is held by the Timken Museum of Art, in San Diego, California.

According to eighteenth-century engravings of the two paintings, both may have originally been as much as a foot higher at the top. Blind Man's Bluff was purchased by the Toledo Museum of Art with funds from the Libbey Endowment, a gift of the glass manufacturer Edward Libbey who founded the museum in 1901.

Blind Man's Bluff is a 1952 British crime film directed by Charles Saunders and starring Zena Marshall, Sydney Tafler and Anthony Pendrell.

Blind Man's Bluff is a 1936 British drama film directed by Albert Parker and starring Basil Sydney, Enid Stamp-Taylor and James Mason. The film was a quota quickie made at Wembley Studios by the Hollywood studio Fox's British subsidiary.