outguess


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Synonyms for outguess

attempt to anticipate or predict

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You don't want him to anticipate anything, trying to outguess you.
The conundrum is: Do you vote for the film or actor or writer you think should win or do you try to outguess the Academy?
businesses in the fall of 2014 were left to simply outguess what Congress might do with this provision.
On the other side, quick disclosure of good news assures that no other sources in news will outguess the news.
In this book, the prolific William Poundstone presents strategies gleaned from numbers theory, statistics, probability and human behavior that his further research indicates can improve your chances of more accurately predicting situations such as whether a pitcher will throw consecutive fastballs, the frequency of a card player's bluff; how to outwit the stock market and outguess office football pools, and, of course, how to win at rock-paper-scissors.
ROBERT GIBBONS, GAME THEORY FOR APPLIED ECONOMISTS 30 (1992) ("In any game in which each player would like to outguess the other(s), there is no Nash equilibrium [with pure strategies] because the solution to such a game necessarily involves uncertainty about what the players will do.").
If you have enough cash flow and are not trying to outguess the market, you must invest regularly," says Jaya Prakash.
Mazuy, 1966, "Can Mutual Funds Outguess the Market?" Harvard Business Review, 44, 131-136.