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That's actually one of my favorite party games: Get out a volume of an encyclopedia ( I know, right!), find a word whose meaning is likely unknown to the circle
by yoo1I 11y ago
That's actually one of my favorite party games: Get out a volume of an encyclopedia ( I know, right!), find a word whose meaning is likely unknown to the circle of people eagerly sitting around the room with a scrap of paper and a pencil, announce it, and have everyone make up fake definitions of the word. Mix them in a hat along with your copied down correct definition, read them aloud and then everyone votes on the most likely to be correct. The person who collects the most votes wins.
So glad this tedious procedure finally got automated! Well... almost, we still need the bots to vote for the most plausible one.
- mgraczyk 11y agoYour game is called Balderdash or Fictionary. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balderdash https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balderdash
- Phemist 11y agoIt's also available in a video game called - Jackbox Party Pack under the name Fibbage 2. It's absolutely hilarious to play with a party of 5 or 6
- yoo1I 11y agoBalderdash![0] I'll be the judge of what's called "The Dictionary Game"! [0] https://youtu.be/mFlCnohRzJ0 https://youtu.be/mFlCnohRzJ0
- maaarghk 11y agoWhen bored on a remote Scottish island, with no internet and a storm raging on outside, we played some variant of this game. We took a Gaelic dictionary, looked up words and used them in context in an English sentence; the others would then try to guess the meaning. It's a good laugh, you should get a dictionary and try it. I particularly loved finding the following word and definition: Teurmnasg (lit. thumb binding). a bandage on the toes and thumbs of a dead person, to prevent his ghost from hurting foes.