Probe is a word guessing parlor game from Parker Brothers, devised by Ted Leavitt and issued in the 1960s, with the original edition dated to 1964. It resembles Hangman but allows up to four players. Each player secretly spells a word on a display rack of letter cards, and blank cards at either end can disguise its true length. On a turn a player asks another player for a letter, turns up a matching card to score the point value printed under it, and keeps asking until he hears no. Finishing a word brings a fifty point bonus, a wrong blank request costs fifty points, and a player may stake a direct guess at a whole word. Unlike Hangman, the game ends only when the last word is revealed, and its rules resemble those of Scrabble.
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as in the original Probe (1964)
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whose object is to guess a word chosen by another player by revealing specific letters
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Probe extends the number of players to a maximum of four
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