Child's Play is an American television game show in which adult contestants tried to guess words based on definitions given by children.

The object of the game was to correctly identify words based on videotaped definitions given by elementary school-age children (ages 5–9).

Champions returned until they were defeated, had played five bonus rounds, or reached the $25,000 winnings limit in force for CBS game shows at the time.

Child's Play premiered at 10:30 a.m. EST on September 20, 1982 (immediately following The New $25,000 Pyramid, which debuted the same day), replacing reruns of Alice (which had held the timeslot since June 2, 1980 as a result of the cancellation of Whew!).

Child's Play faced off against the NBC game shows Wheel of Fortune and, beginning in January 1983, Sale of the Century.

As a result, in the summer of 1983, CBS canceled Child's Play; its final episode aired on September 16 of that year.

Several celebrities appeared on Child's Play before they became famous: Suzan Stadner aka Hanala Sagal (actress/writer), Jeff Cohen, Breckin Meyer, Masi Oka, Tara Reid and Adam Richman were all featured children on the show.

Also, Sugar Ray Robinson appeared in the audience of the July 4, 1983 episode, and Bill Cullen introduced him as the boxing coach of one of the Child's Play kids participating in the Turnabout game.

Germany ran their successful version of Child's Play under the name Dingsda ("Gizmo/Whatsit") on Bayerischer Rundfunk from 1985–2000 with Fritz Egner from 1985–1994, followed by Werner Schmidbauer from 1994–2000.

Their short-lived version titled Tα παiδíα παíζεi (Children Play) originally ran on ERT2 from 1987–1988 with Lefteris Eleftheriadis as host.

The Indonesian version of Child's Play ran from 1996–1998 on antv under the name Kata Si Kecil ("The Little's Says"), hosted by Kepra.

One year later, the show was revived under the new name of Dinges ("Whatchamacallit") which had a much more successful run than its precursor from 1986-1995. the original host was Martine Bijl from 1986-1988 followed by Frank Masmeijer from 1989–1993.

Уcтaми млaденцa (Mouths of Babes/Baby Lips) hosted by Alexander Gurevich originally ran from 1992–1996 and 1999–2000 on RTR and on NTV from 1997–1998.

unlike previous international versions, when a contestant guesses a word correctly he or she earns a "Gallifantes" (a puppet like creature) and at the end of the show, whoever gets the most "Gallifantes'" was the winner of the day also unlike the other previous international versions, this one in particular had four host the first host was Amparo Soler Leal from 1988 then he was replaced by Tina Sainz from 1989 then Ignacio Salas from 1989–1990 and finally, Javier Sardá from 1991–1992 and on 2019.

On September 15, 2008, FremantleMedia, owners of the Goodson-Todman catalog of games, revived Child's Play in the Spanish-speaking market as Dame la pista ("Give Me a Clue"), hosted by Alessandra Rosaldo on Univision-owned TeleFutura.