outguess

Synonyms for outguess

verb get the better of; figure out before another

The German will outguess him, and it's up to him to outguess the German in turn.

He was always able to outguess me in a pinch and seemed to know by intuition what was coming.

So it was that each was trying his best to outguess the other.

Reddy was trying to outguess Blacky, and Blacky was trying to outguess Reddy, and both were enjoying it.

And Elliott said that you could outguess dear old Mother Nature herself!

You can outguess your opponent because you know his movements even as his body tenses to make them.

The extra something consisted of a talent to out-think and outguess the quarry he was running.

But just now he must depend on that nimble wit of his that had so often helped him to outguess an opponent.

The idea was that there was a pattern of thinking in sabotage, and if you could solve it, you could outguess the saboteur.

It ran counter to every principle of military thinking save one, which was that it was a good idea to outguess the enemy.