panel gamen.

1844 G. Wilkes Myst. of Tombs 54/1 I forgot to mention..that Malinda Hoag was convicted..in robbing a countryman of $54 by the panel game.

1857 Porter's Spirit of Times 5 Dec. 213/3 Females are employed as decoy-ducks to induce the yokels from the rural districts into places of unquestionable character, where they are sure to be plundered of their money by the panel-game.

1928 M. C. Sharpe Chicago May (1929) xxxi. 257 She may decide to shift to the creep or panel game.

2002 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 1 Dec. xiv. 2/5 He operated a con called ‘The Panel Game’ in which a prostitute lured a customer to a room... The victim would fall asleep, at which point Hoag would sneak in the room through sliding panels on the wall and would relieve the sleeping mark of his remaining money and valuables.

1952 Observer 21 Dec. 6/6 A new panel game from America called ‘Down You Go’.

1957 P. Wildeblood Main Chance 55 A singularly witless panel-game in which the contestants, in turn, thought of somebody whom they would like to be and their fellow-panellists had to guess the name.

1971 Morning Star 25 June 3/6 The new [radio] shows vary from current affairs, comedy, court dramas, Radio 4's answer to ‘World in Action’, and panel games.

1998 Independent (Nexis) 9 May (Features section) 4 He was never keen to fill in his gap between series with guest appearances on the sort of comedy panel-games that are spreading like a rash over the schedules.

1969 Listener 6 Sept. 308 Gilbert Harding..brought a compelling viewability to everything he did, whether as panel-gamester..or television cook and general pundit.

1996 Sunday Times (Nexis) 9 June (Features section) Willie Rushton, the panel gamester, reflecting on the state of nations: People often ask me where we would be without a sense of humour. I say, ‘Germany.’