The phrase "a game of hints" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an activity or situation where participants provide or interpret clues to solve a puzzle or achieve a goal.
Example: "During the scavenger hunt, it felt like a game of hints as we deciphered the clues left behind."
Alternatives: "a clue-based game" or "a hint-driven activity."
This a game of excess and spectacle, where rare hints at understatement merely contrast with and hence emphasise its knack for sensory mauling.
The hints are right there to help you: Want to play a GAME OF CHESS?
Behind the embassy's high wall, a perpetual game of badminton hints at a relentless rhythm of conquest and submission, the "pock, smash" of the shuttlecock threading through the story.
But the notion of audience participation is scarcely new: here it becomes a consensual game, with hints of horror to gratify those of who have elected to take part.
The company says that, starting today, developers in the U.S. will be able to take advantage of this new feature to sell products to Alexa device owners, which can be purchased, used, then purchased again — for example, a pack of "hints" for a voice game, or extra points that allow a game to continue.
In-game hints: When you start a level, you will be given a number of hints (depending on the size of the level, they can be from 10-25).
We're playing against the Cincinnati Reds, and we've got to find a way to win a game". There was a hint of desperation in his remarks.
We saw Sansa and Jon Snow finally reunite in Season 6, and a new video from "Game of Thrones" seems to hint that another Stark reunion is on the way.
However, there are a limited amount of hint coins, and the game recommends they be used wisely.
And then along came Federer, with his dreamy touch, his array of spins, his sense of always having a hundred options, his style that was a mash-up of Rosewall, Borg and Sampras with just a hint of Lendl – a game that shouldn't have been world-beating but was, and then some.
