THE BALDERDASH BLOG!: Who wants to play?

Okay! WOOT for The Balderdash Blog!

Now... who all wants to play? What I need you to do is you need to send me an email with the email address you have on file at Blogger so that I can give you permission to post, and therefore play. Send me an email to

avaelyn@gmail.com

and I'll get you on the list of contributors.

I'll write how you play and also start a list so that we know whose turn it is in the sidebar.

So... email me everyone!

On a related note, some of my work friends, Kyle and I played Balderdash the other day. There were some awesome ones I wanted to save, but I only found the one that I did. I'm not sure if anyone has played the new Balderdash, where they have 5 categories, and one of them is "Laws" or something like that. Anyway, it will give you the first part of the law, and then you have to finish it. One round, you had to finish "In Some Place, Somewhere (I didn't write it down), it is a crime to ride..."

I wrote "... a cowboy. Only horses. It doesn't matter if it saves them, they already know Jesus."

How To Play

The order for whose turn it is to pick a word to define will be in the sidebar under the heading "Who's playing?". When it's your turn, your name will be underlined, and in bold capital letters. If it is your turn, find an obscure word for everyone to try and define and make a post with just that word and your email address on the Balderdash blog. If you have the Balderdash board game at home, that's even better, because you can just pick one from there. Everyone else will have a day or two to send you an email with their made-up definition. After the time is up, you edit your post, listing all of the definitions, including the right one. Make sure that you aren't writing names on them, and try to fix any spelling or grammatical errors so everything is consistent. And then everyone will write a comment and vote on which one they think is the right one. You get one point if someone guesses yours, and two points if you guess the right one. There will be a tally of the points in the sidebar under "Who's playing?" (I can keep a tally of the points). We'll set a date that each game goes for, and at the end of that time frame, whoever has the most points WINS!

Sounds great, right?

Don't forget how the points work:

1 point to each player for every vote of his/her definition.
2 points to a player chooses the real definition.
3 points to the reader if no one chooses the real definition
3 points if someone submits a definition similar to the real one.

3 comments:

Trav November 23, 2009 at 11:03 PM: didja get my email? didja? didja? didja? i am seriously excited about this... really i am. and nicely done on the cowboy one. i liked it.
Melanie November 24, 2009 at 9:49 AM: I like it too. E mailing you now.
Jonathan November 24, 2009 at 5:34 PM: I wouldn't mind playing. Sounds like fun.

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