• Sep. 18, 2009
Balderdash!
Have you ever played the game "Balderdash"? How it works is this: there is a box of cards with 5 different categories on each card. You draw a card, then roll the die to determine which category you will play from. (Weird Words, Incredible Initials, Marvelous Movies, Laughable Laws, or Peculiar People. If you roll a six, you get to choose any of them.)
Then, the person who is the "Reader" reads whatever the word, etc, is. For example: "twanke" (a weird word.).
Next, the reader flips the card over and writes down the correct answer on a piece of paper.
Then the rest of the players write down their made-up answers (which range from outrageous to mundane) and hand them to the reader.
Finally, the reader reads all of the answers, and the players vote on which one they think is right. If someone votes for your idea, you get to move one space on the board. If you guess the right idea (the one on the card) you get to move two spaces on the board. It is really fun!
Anyway, last night, my family played that game, and I decided to put the questions and answers on here as a little "test' to do for fun. You should enjoy it!
Marvelous Movies (you will need to guess what the real movie is about):
1. "Bad Jim":
a. Jim-Bob's country still is poisoned by his jealous cousin, Skip.
b. A monkey escapes his cage in a zoo and holds his keeper hostage for a six pack of beer.
c. After a cowboy buys Billy the Kid's house, he becomes Billy the Kid himself!
d. A charming family story about house pet turkey Jim, who ends up on the table for Thanksgiving-despite the children's protests-because of his bad habit of drooling.
2. "We Don't Want to Talk About it":
a. Two twin brothers marry two twin sisters and their firstborn children look identical.
b. A 1990's movie where a man cheats on his wife, they get divorced, and then the wife kills herself.
c. Story of twins who are joined at the hip who make a living working at the circus.
d. A mother refuses to accept the fact that her daughter is a dwarf.
Weird Words (guess the "real" definition of the words below):
1. kakkerlak
a. This type of bird is very cheap, found being sold in New Zealand, and is nicknamed Kakkerlack because it "lacks the Kack."
b. A technique used by Amish craftsmen to finish wood using oil and resin.
c. An albino cockroach.
d. Russian popsicle.
2. fumet
a. Deer droppings.
b. Planks that make the wall on a flume.
c. A Finlandish nickname for a clutz.
d. A French fumigator, pronounced Foo-May
3. swallet
a. A disease contracted by giraffes, which impairs their ability to swallow.
b. Male purse.
c. A new type of wallet that is catchingly named "Swallet."
d.A place where streams disappear underground.
Incredible Initials (guess what the initials really stand for):
1. I.M.F.C.
a. Independent Machinists For Christ
b. Immaculate Mary Fan Club
c. Incorporation of Macintosh Family Computers
Laughable Laws (Fill in the missing words to the sentence that will fulfill the true law in Finland):
In Finland, it is a crime to read...
a. The Torah to a Muslim during the holy month of Ramadan
b. Instruction manuals while you have been drinking
c. Donald Duck comic books, because he did not wear pants
d. Graffiti on restroom walls
If you'd like to take a guess at what you think the correct answers are to these questions, please do! You may leave your answers in the comments section here, and I'll let you know how many you guessed correctly. After a little while, I'll post the correct answers here for you. Have fun guessing!
Comments
• Oct. 5, 2009
Well...
Posted by Rebecca
I'm gonna try to guess the answers!
Marvelous Movies:
1. c
2. a
Weird Words:
1. b
2. a
3. a
Incredible Initials:
1. c
Laughable Laws:
1.b
Well, just guessing...LOL! But it was fun guessing!
Your friend,
Rebecca
