blind man's buff

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From blind man's + an obsolete sense of buff, coming from Old French buffe (“blow”). First known usage from 1854.

61 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: blindemol — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Azerbaijani: gözbağlıca — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Basque: itsumando — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Bulgarian: сляпа баба (sljapa baba) — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Catalan: gallina cega — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Chinese Mandarin: 躲猫猫 (duǒ māo māo) — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Chinese Mandarin: 捉迷藏 (zhuō mí cáng) — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Czech: slepá bába — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Czech: hra na slepou bábu — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Danish: blindebuk — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Dutch: blindemannetje — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Erzya: кончкэть (končkëť) — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Esperanto: blindludo — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Estonian: pimesikk — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Faroese: blindabukkur — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Finnish: sokkoleikki — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Finnish: sokko — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Finnish: sokkosilla olo — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• French: colin-maillard — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Galician: pitacega — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• German: Blindekuh — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• German: Blindekuhspiel — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• German: Blinde Kuh — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Greek: τυφλόμυγα (tyflómyga) — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Greek: ψηλαφίνδα (psilafínda) — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Ancient Greek: χαλκῆ μυῖα (khalkê muîa) — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Ancient Greek: μυΐνδα (muḯnda) — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Hungarian: szembekötősdi — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Icelandic: skollaleikur — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Ido: blindoludo — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Irish: cluiche púicín — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Italian: mosca cieca — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Italian: moscacieca — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Japanese: 目隠し鬼 (mekakushi oni) — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Kazakh: соқыртеке (soqyrteke) — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Korean: 까막잡기 (kkamakjapgi) — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Latin: myinda — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Macedonian: слепа баба (slepa baba) — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Western Mari: пӹрӓ (pÿrä) — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Norwegian: blindebukk — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Occitan: catòrba — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Odia: ଅନ୍ଧପୁଟୁଳି (andhapuṭuḷi) — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Polish: ciuciubabka — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Polish: ślepa babka — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Portuguese: cabra-cega — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Romanian: baba-oarba — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Romanian: de-a baba-oarba — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Russian: жму́рки (žmúrki) — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Spanish: gallina ciega — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Swedish: blindbock — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Tagalog: piring-piringan — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Tamil: கண்கட்டிப் பிடித்தல் (kaṇkaṭṭip piṭittal) — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Tatar: gör-gör — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Turkish: körebe — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Uzbek: кўз боғлаш (koʻz bogʻlash) — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Uzbek: koʻz bogʻlash — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Vietnamese: bịt mắt bắt dê — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Yiddish: שלעפּע־באָבע (shlepe-bobe) — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Yiddish: בלינדע־קו (blinde-ku) — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Yiddish: בלענדעניש (blendenish) — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others
• Yiddish: קוציבאַבע (kutsibabe) — game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others