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Kim's game|kɪmz geɪm|
Also Kim game.
[Developed from the ‘Jewel Game’ in ch. ix of Kipling's Kim (1901); as Kim's Game introduced by R. S. S. Baden-Powell in the Scouting movement.]
A memory-testing game (see quots.).
1908Baden-Powell Scouting for Boys i. i. 54 Kim's Game. Place about twenty or thirty small articles on a tray..and cover them over... Then uncover the articles for one minute... The boy who remembers the greatest numbers wins the game. 1948‘J. Tey’ Franchise Affair vii. 73 She has a photographic memory... When we played the Kim game—you know? the objects on the tray—we had to put Betty out of the game because she invariably won... She would remember what she saw. 1972‘M. Innes’ Open House ii. viii. 74 Kim's Game consists in enumerating as many as possible of a miscellaneous assemblage of objects briefly glimpsed shortly before. 1973Times 1 Oct. 13/1 We can, for example, play Kim's game, looking at a collection of objects on a table for 30 seconds before covering them up. |