Oh man… my family was playing a rousing game of Balderdash last night… a game which I am astoundingly good at, by the way… and my brother… well, my brother Henry, to be more precise… and I came up with an awesome idea… People, we are all going to play Balderdash right here on this blog!
For those of you who do not know about this game, the idea is very simple. The game comes with a bunch of cards. On one side of the cards are written obscure and seldom used words… In fact, some of these words are so obscure that maybe only one or two people ever used them in all of history, or else they are foreign words, or maybe the people who made the game just made some of these words up. Anyway, the definitions are written on the other sides of the cards.
You take turns being the person who picks a card and reads one of these obscure words. Everybody else has little pieces of paper on which to write a fake, made up definition of the word. The person whose turn it is to read the word also writes the real definition on a small piece of paper. (You do this so people who are watching the reader read the definitions can’t spot the card and know that is the real answer)…
You get points in two ways. If you guess the correct definition, you get a point. But you also get points for every person that you can fool into believing that your fake definition is the actual definition of the word.
Can you see how this might be fun to play here?
But the thing is… Oh, come on, you knew I would have a thing sooner or later… I am going to look up obscure real words… but I am also going to make up some fake words.
Then, you will all give your definitions… they can sound like actual definitions… or you can just be as silly as you want.
Then after a while, we can all decide who gave the best answers, or which were the funniest. We will give points for the best answers… and if you pick the actual definitions of actual words, I will give you bonus points… And feel free to guess whether or not the words are real or if I made them up.
But no cheating… no using a dictionary… no Goggeling…
Okay, who is with me on this???
Pouring My Art Out 
Very late, but I’m in – I have a very big vocabulary!
uh oh
btw we also have a new version of this game, which includes the words, but it also has film titles, acronyms, peculiar people, and ridiculous laws. I like it better than the original because of the variety. We also have a similar game that involves wise old sayings, that’s awesome too.
I will have to look into those..;
definitely
wait… what was I supposed to look into?
sigh…how many memory brain cells do you think are left between us?
I forget
2.37
Sigh
and the extra .01 is on my end
I am sure that is clever, but I forget why it would be
our 2.37 brain cells that we have left between us, the extra .01 is on my end 😛
fine… because we have been killing off the weak ones… so the more you have…
no, I’m just breeding stronger ones, we’re at 5.25 now
cool
57.1
Not a good score for a dismount
but for a discount you can get an addition 48.2 brain cells
That I need
sold
boom
Sounds like fun.
yay
Ok, let’s try that – and maybe I’ll figure out what I’m supposed to do.
Well let me know
OK, someone else just wrote about this earlier today…this must be a popular holiday game.
it is family friendly
Sounds like fun. I’m willing to contesticate.
yay… I am going to do the first word soon…
Points are OK, but what does the winner get for them? You should make it just a little more enticing for those of us who are self-serving blog whores.
well, I still have that thing I do where, if you get me a picture of your head, I can Photoshop it and make your dreams come true… for examples of this, do a search on my blog for ‘making your dreams come true’… I could do that for the winner
No dice. I don’t like pictures of me, and somehow getting a promise from a man I’ve never actually met that he’ll make my dreams come true, just doesn’t work. 🙂
but did you look at some of the posts in that series?
I have now. Maybe I could send you a picture of someone I’m not happy with (like the boss who failed to give out Christmas bonuses this year). I’d sure like to see his head Photoshopped into some “unlikely” places, since I don’t have a Cousin Ed who could have “helped” me on Christmas Eve.
oooooh…. you just invented a whole new way to play ‘making your dreams come true’…
Tempting, isn’t it?
yeah it is
Sure I’ll play, if I’m here and if I remember which I might, if I’m here
That sounds like a commitment to me
Geez. Three days since your last post and you didn’t give us any warning. We all thought you got sent to Guantanamo or something.
It was only two days wasn’t it???
27 minus 24 is 3. 🙂
are you sure
Is Dick Cheney a Scribbney?
no free hints
Okay. I’ll let you pay me thousand dollars to listen to a hint. Is that better?
better than what?
a free hint
oh, right
Well, Dick Cheney loves you anyway.
Oh boy
He likely fed the crack squirrels turkey and it was downhill from there
yeah… they eat meat now… oh boy…
Didn’t you watch oliver? Never feed them meat
I didn’t do it… they did
It’s gonna be a wild new year fo sho
If I have anything to do with it, it will.
I have no idea where my next year is headed but I do know it’s gonna be awesome!!
I wish I had that attitude
Mine seem to just keep getting better so I’m expecting this one to fall in line
That is pretty awesome.