charades

noun

1. 1.A genre of riddles where the clues to the answer are descriptions or puns on its syllables, with a final clue to the whole.
2. 2.A single round of the game charades, an acted form of the earlier riddles.
3. 3.A play resembling the game charades, particularly due to poor acting.
4. 4.A deception or pretense, originally an absurdly obvious one but now in general use.
5. 5.A game in which each player acts out a word or phrase, usually based on puns of each syllable and without speaking, for the others to guess.