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Efforts have tried to reduce selective exposure online by serving diversified news content, but their effectiveness has been limited by users' lack of motivation to engage with the diverse content offered. To address this, we design the NewsGuesser system, which leverages the insight that curiosity can prompt motivation and engagement, by asking readers to guess the source of their news. In interviews with 40 participants, balanced for partisan affiliation, we use NewsGuesser as a probe tool to explore how guessing affects their perceptions of selective exposure. Participants struggled with the guessing game, which revealed a misalignment between users' expectations of different news sources and reality. Faced with the visualizations of the (often inaccurate) guessing results, participants were able to reflect on their own biases and selective exposure. In a number of cases, the guessing process changed participants' impressions of news organizations and some expressed an interest in engaging with more diverse news sources. 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