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¿Question #3489?
ssmooth: Do the games you like tend to involve a lot of guesswork?

ocdspectrum: No. It’s just normal analysis paralysis.
willyum: Ummm.... lemme think... hmmmm.... nope. I think.
draight: No, guesswork undermines a games integrity
imyourskribe: I dunno. Maybe?
Hendal: yep, I am guessing weather she will sleep with me or not
javapuzzles: its not guesswork it is educated guesses
Woelf: Some of them do, some of them don't.
DasViktor: No, Mystery Express has so much guesswork, I consider it painful.
LauraTheLabRabbit: Randomness no, chaos yes.
aleo09: no
CraftyShafty: Define "a lot".
shumby: negative, I'm too analytical
pwilz: I guess so. (lame, I know)
tankexmortis: No.
Polgara: no
cturnitsa: Not at all, except for bidding games. I think that guessing what the other players are doing is good, but guessing what is going on in the game is frustrating. I suppose a mystery game (like Baker St. or Ellery Queen) is different, but there the guessing is almost the metagame.
LazarusDarkeyes: No
Spud: No.
Blott: No
Hector Vortac: no
atrium: Not really
boldot: No, wait, maybe? Hmm... I know this... Yes? Damn, it was no.
ZeroZilla: Not 'a lot', but some.
DHEK: Not really. I prefer strategy-type games over guesswork / luck ones.
Elf__Man: guesswork, no; analytics, yes.
BengalBoy1980: no
monkeyrobot: Not really. I mean, I play Mystery of the Abbey, Cluedo and block games every now and then, but that´s it. Although I guess in a wide sense, auction games are about guessing to.
dsmeyer: hmm, let me think. Yes, no, I'm not sure. No, I'll guess no
AKARed: Not really.
Boomer: no
Chris Page: Some, for some amount of some.
e.c.r.: no
Sigisgrim: No
bigbadsteve: some do, some dont
vampywife: not usually, i like strategy, but i also like word games, like outburst and password, which i guess require soem guesswork, but the easy answer, i guess, is not usually.
l7productions: Yes
Avatar_69: Yes
mlanza: No, but they do involve statistical analysis
ct_cruiser: hm, not usually
Platinum Dragon: No.
rawdawg: no
Great Dane: I guess so
korppu: No
Kazin: No, not really.
skrutsch: I need an example, but I'd say no.
_Kael_: Guess not
puffinge: Guesswork is something I like in a game, but I like lots of games that don't include it too.
tipigi: no
Loquutus: yes
ssmooth: Maybe not a lot, but just about any game involves a bit of guesswork at a key juncture. (Though admittedly, in an open-information game, the main thing you have to guess at is what your opponent is thinking!) For example, in Euphrat & Tigris you have to guess what your opponents' tile holdings might be as you approach a conflict. Or in a game with a lot of dice rolls, you do things based on a guess about what the future dice rolls will be -- knowing probabilities helps here, of course.
ZombyDawg: no
Tushratta: I guess.
javelin98: No.
tranzducer: Nope. Keep it in the CASINOS.
tragicpoet: sometimes
Cerebus: Sometimes.
pmartel60: No, more like mind-reading.
Legend Dan: Nope.
Randy Cox: Maybe so
Mikebegeta: yes
erli: Some of them
rdmasters: No. Except about the players...
Lord_Prussian: Yes
ValJor: I think every game involves quite a bit of guesswork, don't they?
2amp: no
melissa: No
chrisesko: no
djlg: Not particularly. Other factors matter more.
jttm: Not particularly
skelebone: There is some guesswork involved.
chaddyboy_2000: Sometimes.
heli: What game doesn't feature this quality though?
Spielfreak: no
sos1: No
CDRodeffer: Not usually, although I do like some games with hidden information.
CortexBomb: Guesswork? No, not really