As I have probably mentioned before, having been introduced to this game, I have now fallen head over heels for it. The joy of Balderdash is that you don't need any general knowledge, and for once it helps to be slightly mad and overly enthusiastic.
To try and demonstrate its awesomeness, I brought back some great examples from this weekend to share:
The question at hand was to suggest the synopsis for the movie "Ooh, you are awful!"
Each person writes their idea of what the movie would involve (the 'dealer' contributes the correct answer to the mix) and then the answers are collected and read out anonymously, with the contestants having to guess which is the actual one. We came up with these to choose from:
To try and demonstrate its awesomeness, I brought back some great examples from this weekend to share:
The question at hand was to suggest the synopsis for the movie "Ooh, you are awful!"
Each person writes their idea of what the movie would involve (the 'dealer' contributes the correct answer to the mix) and then the answers are collected and read out anonymously, with the contestants having to guess which is the actual one. We came up with these to choose from:
- A kitsch drama released in 1985 about a family adapting to post WWII life in Britain.
- In which two young men fall in love with the same girl. After impregnating her with no knowledge of paternity they elope with one another to form a transvestite duo in the freak show at the circus.
- In this 1935 slapstick comedy, actress Simone Lesley discovers her shambolic husband has been cheating on her with his 18 year old secretary and seeks revenge through a series of hilarious pranks.
- 50 year old Mira Windle moves from small town Wisconsin to the bright lights of New York City. Initially ostracized, her catch phrase of "ooh you are awful!" catapults her to the forefront of society. Based on a true story.
- A con man searches for a girl who has the location of hidden bonds tattoed on her backside.
- A boy who launches a year long reign of terror over his best friend's hamster; involving poking it with a white hot stick, Chinese waterboarding, and finally killing it with a sledgehammer and a rusty nail.
After much deliberation, the votes were in. As it turns out, we all lost when it turned out to be the girl with the tattoos gracing her nether region. And people started to look at Dom a bit differently after learning he was responsible for the plot line involving the hamster... All in all, good fun, turning increasingly purile as the wine flowed. After an hour we all physically ached from laughing.
Points to anyone who can guess which was mine. Off to bed now, the combination of full working weeks and action packed weekends is really wearing me down - break out the violins...!
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