h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

My version of this game goes like this:

One player looks for an interesting word, reads it out loud and writes down the correct definition. Everybody else has to invent adefinition and write it down. They all give their papers to the first player, who reads them all out. Then everybody else gives a guess about which is the correct definition. If you guess right: one point. If somebody else has believed your definition: one point. If you are the first player, and nobody has guessed right: one point )although it might be agood idea to give more than one for that: maybe you get one for every player who has guessed wrong). Then the next person gets the dictionary and you start anew...

Another great game is this: everybody gets a piece of paper and writes asentence on top of it (i.e.: "last night the dj saved my life", or whatever you please). Then everybody hands the paper on to their right neighbours. They read the sentence and try to draw what they see. Then you fold the paper and hand it on to the next person, so this person can see your drawing, but not read the sentence. Now you have to transform the drawing back into a sentence. Fold, pass, the paper on and so on until all papers are full. No winners, but extremely funny results, especially if you are a bad drawer.

We used to play this version of the dictionary game on our email system at work. Sort of broke the day up. A word per day, cumulative scores totalled up over the week.

wow, we should start a live version on h2g2! perhapse we could get a site account on the OED? i too know the above version over the one in the entry, maybe its a regional thing, were did you guys learn it? i play the other game outalked about too, only wep lay it with the names of pubs and illustrations of possiblepub sighns. is there anything better than a good word or paper game? (except cheese obviously)

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We use to play this, but in a commercial version. ( I played it yesterday). There is a game called 'kokelimonke', in Norway that is. With cards with different very difficult words on them (or strange words in strange accents) Veery funny!

The commercial version in Britain is called "Balderdash" - I believe.

But fun it is! Er have begun to call each other obscure names that we learned when playing the game, making our conversations impossible to understand... balderdash... what does that mean? (I need to find my dictionary)