Our family loves to play games. We had a friend that had this one and just had to get it for our family. I would have to say that it is more fun for teens and adults than small children since you need to be able to read. We'll get years of use out of this one!!!

This game is one of the best games our family has ever had. Hours of fun and laughter. Great for little niece and nephew, as we all play along with mom and dad and grandma. Its a thinking game and educational. Brings everyone together for hours of unforgettable time together. Great for friendly get togethers.... Highley recomend.You will do alot of laughing.

This game is great to play as a family. I bought Balderdash for my daughter and son-in-law and we played it at Christmas. It is a very entertaining game to play with those who have creative minds. I would highly recommend this game.

My daughter is not a board game fan, but the first time we played this game she absolutely loved it! She begs to play it over and over again. It is a game that really makes you think. The more creative and silly your answers the more fun it is! If you need a good laugh, this is the game for you.

Balderdash provides enjoyable hours of fun, while learning new things. Your knowledge helps, but the strategy may also be in the manipulation of words describing things, or in how you would read out the answers. It is so much fun, you will fall of your seat laughing! The person who makes everyone believe that his or her answer is the correct answer,will reach the finish line faster and become the big winner!

We sat around and played this game for hours and laughed to the point of tears constantly. We weren't even drinking. This game will test the fabrication skills and "poker faces" of your friends and leave you in stitches. Everyone will always want to start a new game because they are certain they have figured out everyone's "system" and will win. Love this game.

This game is super fun! You get to guess the truth of the meaning of a word, or event for a date which is always insane, but it prompts others to be insane. The gam requires you to be creatively silly and so everyone has a great time!

I just played this game for the first time at a party last weekend. I've seen it around and been asked to play but I'm not much of a game person. The party was kind of boring, so I figured might as well. It is so much fun! Every player makes up a definition for a real word no one's ever heard of. One person reads the definitions and everyone else tries to guess the right meaning of the word. It's lots more fun than I'm making it sound, believe me! Play it, it's an absolute blast!

I owned the original Balderdash game many years ago and loved it. I recently ordered the game on the internet and we played it the other day for the first time. This game is a variation in that it has 5 categories where the original only had unusual words. Quite honestly, I enjoyed the original much better than this newer version and we only played the game using the first category (unusual words) rather than all 5. The other 2 players were new to the game and really enjoyed it.

We played this game after dinner on Christmas day with my family and boy we found a lot of people out of their comfort zone trying to come up with "spoof" answers. You will discover right away who the "creative minds" are. Not good for those who need parameters or right and wrong answers.

This game is difficult at first to understand which side of the cards are the answers and which is the questions. It's no fun with 2 people. A lot of writing in this game I didn't care for.

We've had a great time playing this game. I would not recommend this for anyone under the age of 14. The idea is to fool your opponent with complex definitions or believable ideas. It would be tough to keep up with the adults at the table, in this respect. Happy playing.

We have the most fun with this game and always get it out on holidays to play with large groups. It works well to pair a youngster with someone older. Playing in teams allows young children to help with ideas for clues and they can also help with the guessing for the right answer. We've sent it as present to two other families this Christmas.

Balderdash is always a lot of fun to play, and a good way to help you stretch your mind and your creative side.

Our family loves this game. It brings out the creative side of people of all ages and is very fun to play. There are 5 catigories. Movies, weird laws, initials, word meaning, dealers choice. Everyone takes a turn orchestrating the game while the rest of the players make up ficticious answers. Then that same person reads everyones made up answers along with the correct answer and you have to guess which is made up and which is the correct. We played many times over Christmas with teenagers and gramdma too! Everyone was having such a great time we didn't want the game to be over. Turn off the TV, make some popcorn and re-connect with your family with this fun, no pressure to win game.

We really enjoy playing this game. It is good for a wide range of ages and is a great mixer game.

I started playing Boulder Dash back in 1996 and since then it has become one of my favourite games. There is no limit to the number of players that can participate in the game. Actually the more that are playing the more fun it is. You DO NOT HAVE TO KNOW the meaning of the words to have fun. What you need is a wild imagination and good skills in bluffing. The game now includes more categories such as dates, initials and movie titles but still the word category I think is the best. If the cards that are provided in the box are finished no problem you can use scrap paper and honestly I have never used the board of the game while playing.
Be ready for rounds of loud laughs and why not be ready to enrich your vocabulary with words you will never use anyway!

Balderdash is a riot! It keeps my family in stitches! My entire family is so full of bull we play this easily. Playing Balderdash is a family tradition after Thanksgiving & Christmas dinners and everything in-between. Anytime there is a family gathering the Balderdash game comes out! My grown sons and their wives are full of bull, the grandkids are now joining in, but, it's tough to out bull the mother of bulls! Gotta Love It! Jane

This is the second Balderdash game our family has purchased. Always good for many laughs!

This game is a lot of fun - it is much improved from the first edition of Balderdash. There are more categories and much more room for creativity.

Balderdash is a fun game for the family and/or friends to play. This was hard to find (an older, yet popular game), but I did find it at Amazon.com.

This is a great game that is made fun by the people you play it with. While not the fastest moving game it does bring on competitiveness and alot of laughter. Great game to play with a glass of wine, some appetizers, and a group of your best friends.

This is one of my personal favorite board games of all time; so much so, in fact, that I secretly rate all games on a "How long it took me to put it down and play Balderdash instead" scale.

This game will bring out the liar, the actor and the wordsmith in you, and is most fun when played with a bunch of people. You may run out of playing slips, but pieces of scrap paper work just as well.

This game is a good one for road trips with lots of people (e.g. an "away" game, a church field trip, etc.), you don't even necessarily have to keep score, the winning is not the fun part, the PLAYING is what's fun.

There is nothing better then playing Balderdash with a crowd of innovative people. A player reads a card with the title of a movie, acronym, a date, word so forth and the other players must write down the meaning of it. For example the date may be may 4, 1978 and the players write down what they believed was memorable about this date. Then after everyone has written down an answer they are all read aloud along with the right answer and everyone guesses which one they think is right. The outcome-- some creative and utterly hilarious answers . This game is a must have for family get togethers. Its hysterical and imaginative plus there is the extra bonus of learning random facts. Most of the time you'll be laughing throughout so you wont know who wins. We have get togethers and there is never a dull moment once the game comes out.

Balderdash is such a classic game, you can't go wrong. I love board games, and so do my friends, and we play them all, all the time. Some of my other favorites are Pass the Pigs, Rigamarole, Liebrary (like Balderdash, Cranium, and Taboo.

This game is absolutely hilarious. Lots of fun to play, and you learn new definitions of words while doing it. I haven't laughed (and cried, cause we laughed so much) while playing any other game as much as this one. It was fun for all, an awesome game. A must buy if you are a game player.

The original Balderdash game challenged players to make up definitions to a given osbcure word, and then try to guess which was the actual definition of the word to move along the board. Sounds a bit complicated but after a couple of rounds the game has everyone splitting their sides from laughter - since many of the definitions actual meanings are stranger than their fictional ones.

With the new version of the game (aka Beyond Balderdash) there are 5 categories on every card, which expands the gameplay and switches it up a bit, albeit it also limits how many times you can play before running into doubles more often that you would with the original game.

A general breakdown of what you have to bluff in each category:

Movies - make up the plot to a given title
People - explain what accomplishment the person has achieved
Initials - devise a clever acronym
Laws - what does this one mean?
Words - the classic Balderdash standby.

My only other complaints with the game are you run out of answer slips quite quickly (thank god for the refill pack I got) and you need a lot of people to make the game interesting...at the very least you need four, but the more the better. I'd say 5-8 is a nice number. This is a great game for the whole family - I've been playing it since I was 8 or 9 and have only gotten better.

You have to have a sense of humor to play this game. It's not actually educational so much as fun. Most of the words on here you would never have heard of, unless of course, your major is Old Dead English Words. This game is great for drinking parties. It's also fun for just easy laughs with friends. The game is basically about how well you can bull*hit.

You make up definitions to words or you pick the actual definition of obscure words. Keep a straight face and be as creative as you can. Your own imagination makes this game fun!

Definitely try this game! It's a lot of fun once you start it. This game works best with a decent sized group of people (more than 4).

The more creative you are, the more fun you will have.

This is a great game to play at parties or take on vacation. Many of these words might be too hard for children. But, for adults it is a lot of fun. The object is to come up with a definition of some obscure word in order to fool your opponents.
I have A lot of fun with this game. I generally like to come up with some riddiculous answer

for example: One word was Throp- I gave the definition "Something a 'thrabbit' does!"

Many of the words are nouns. and many of the words are technical jargon of a specific field or profession.

Its a good vocabulary biulder. Great practice for the game of scrabble.

I just played the new version for the first time last weekend at a friends. Wo... so much better! Instead of just thinking up definitions for crazy words, you can also think of...

Film Plots: You are given the name of a movie, such as "Hot Under The Collar" and you make up a one sentence plot description.

People: You're given a name, such as "Jennifer Leland" and you makeup why she might be famous. (I don't care for this category too much... too hard to tell from a name what someone might have done.)

Initials: You're given a set of letters, such as D.H.F.C. and then you makeup something it could stand for.

Silly Laws: "In New Jersey it is against the law to bake apple pies..." and then you finish the sentence.

All players hand in their made-up definitions, descriptions, etc to someone who reads them all, along with the REAL one, and everyone tries to guess which one is legitimate.

I would personally disagree with the reviews which say this game isn't meant to be taken seriously, and the idea is to be as silly as possible. I think it's quit fun to try and concoct answers that fool people into guessing that yours is the correct answer. But however you want to pay it, there's no doubt that this is one the all-time great party games, and it's well worth the twenty-five bucks. If you try it and don't have an absolute blast, email me and (depending on my mood) I'll refund your money. :-)

Enjoy!

Truly one of the maddest games I have ever played! I am not much of a boardgame fanatic, but this one blew me away, for the sheer comedy value. Definitely one to play with a few mates on a night in with a few drinks. It really doesn't matter who wins in this- just as long as the 'bluff' definitions are as funny as possible. Not one for the competitive types then really!! In fact it's where I can see the game being a slight drawback, if one of the party takes it too seriously. IT WAS NEVER DESIGNED TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY, SO LIGHTEN UP!! All in all, an excellent purchase- you will not be disappointed.

i think that this game is great beacuse one you get to learn new words and your vocabulary expands and you get to set around and think hard for a fophny and funny but someway make it sound good as a real defintio. that is why i like thisgame the most out of all thre games i have played

"Balderdash", a game which many people have never heard of, and others THINK they have, oh, many years ago, (as they scratch their heads,and try to remember exactly when) is, in my humble opinion, one of the most enjoyable (and challenging) games around. (Actually, it isn't "around" very much, as I have gone into store after store to try and find it, without success).

Very simply put, the game challenges players to try to fool their fellow players into coming up with believable-sounding definitions for really, really obscure words. (And I mean obscure as the dickens here, folks). One person (the "runner" who is essentially "it"), has the actual definition--that person can either use the actual definition, or create one of his own. The idea in coming up with your own definition is to try to convince your fellow players that yours is the correct one. For everyone who guesses your definition, (as opposed to the real one, or another player's made-up definition), you score points. The person with the most points (the biggest "flim-flam" artist, to put it politely) wins. A good vocabulary does help here, plus an ability to keep a straight face when your definition is being read. Great game. Really tests the brain!

I went to my boyfriends families christmas party and every year they play games. This year they begged me to play but I don't like playing with new people because I don't want them to think less of me if I lose or if I don't know something. But this game was such a blast... when it was my turn to read the cards I couldn't stop laughing. Everyone said that I was more entertaining than the game. I had so much fun and laughed so hard it was hard for us all not to cry at some of the things we said.

This is the most fun game that I have ever played! I played with my family, about 12-13 people, and I have never had enough fun playing a game. I would recommend this game, Balderdash for all!!