Each player starts the game with a board that includes cartoon images of 24 people and their first names with all the images standing up. Each player selects a card of their choice from a separate pile of cards containing the … See more

Special editions which have different faces have been released, including Star Wars (released 2008 with 24 characters, and 2014 with 15 characters), Batman (released 2019), Animal Crossing (2019), Marvel Comics (released 2022, 24 characters), See more

Popular belief is that a binary search is the most efficient approach to the game, with which each question halves the number of possible identities. This can be applied by asking complex questions - such as "Does your character have red hair, or glasses, or a big nose?" - … See more

Modern commentators have noted a bias toward white and male characters in Guess Who?. In 2012, a freelance journalist wrote to … See more

In the United States, advertisements for the board game often showed the characters on the cards coming to life and making witty comments to each other. This caused later editions of such ads to carry the spoken disclaimer line "game cards do not actually talk" to … See more

Guess Who? has found use in an educational context, including the development of deductive reasoning skills. In addition, the game can be used for a wide range of speech … See more

On April 19, 2021, Deadline Hollywood announced that a planned unscripted television adaptation of the board game was in early … See more