Balderdash!!!!

E, LoR · 01-14-2006, 10:11 PM

okay, heres how this is going to work:
I'm going to pick a word from the dictionary and then you guys are going to PM me with your definitions. Then I'm going to post the definitions. 1 pt if you guess the correct def. 2 pts if your def gets picked. I'll post the scores. Oh, and I get 1 pt if no one guesses the correct answer. If you want to be the dasher just PM me.

Please don't use the dictionary.

word: incogitant

Bombadillo · 01-14-2006, 10:18 PM

OMG this is the best game thread ever. My family and I play the board game almost every time we get together. In person esspecially, it gets hilarious. I'm about to PM you.

E, LoR · 01-14-2006, 10:26 PM

thanks

Lotesse · 01-14-2006, 10:43 PM

Hey, this sounds like a REALLY fun game! Right up my alley - I love etymology, and I love games. My only suggestion to you is, how about play the whole game here in your thread? PMing is no fun, because - well, it's just no fun. Can't you have people put their guessed definitions here, and then after a prescribed amount of time, you give them their pointage? And what's a dasher? I'm VERY interested in this game!

**Nurvingiel** · 01-14-2006, 11:25 PM

This sounds a lot like Dictionary, that my family and I play. Fun!

Eowyn, I love that you turned your name into an acronym! You are awesome.

Curubethion · 01-15-2006, 12:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lotesse

My only suggestion to you is, how about play the whole game here in your thread? PMing is no fun, because - well, it's just no fun. Can't you have people put their guessed definitions here, and then after a prescribed amount of time, you give them their pointage? And what's a dasher?

I think a "dasher" would be what Eowyn is right now: someone who runs this thing. (from "balderdash")
The whole key of the game is secrecy. Once a certain amount of definitions are PM'd, then she'll post and we'll guess which one is correct. PMing makes it flow better...

Lotesse · 01-15-2006, 01:05 AM

O.K., I'll give it a go - PMing now...

Spock · 01-15-2006, 11:19 AM

hmmm, like the "sorting hat" I must place this in the proper location......I know, Entertainment................POOF!

E, LoR · 01-15-2006, 09:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lotesse

Hey, this sounds like a REALLY fun game! Right up my alley - I love etymology, and I love games. My only suggestion to you is, how about play the whole game here in your thread? PMing is no fun, because - well, it's just no fun. Can't you have people put their guessed definitions here, and then after a prescribed amount of time, you give them their pointage? And what's a dasher? I'm VERY interested in this game!

Thanks!!!

the reason why you cant just post the definition is because after all the defs are in you have to guess which one is the correct one, and if every one just post theirs you'll know which ones are fake and which one is real
hope that explains stuff

Sorry, spock, didnt realize this would go under entertainment

thanx nurvingiel!!!!

oh, i think I'll post the definitions tomorrow...we might get more, then it'll be harder

E, LoR · 01-16-2006, 01:39 PM

okay, here are the long anticipated definitions:
Incogitant

1: Immune to mind-reading
2: with out deliberation or though
3: inconsiderate
4: incapable of thinking
5: Unable to be aware
6: Unthinking
7: not understandable by a reasonable person

you can post your guesses and as soon as everyone's guessed I'll post up the score.

E, LoR

Curubethion · 01-16-2006, 01:40 PM

Number 5. BTW just checking here...you can't guess your own definition, right?

E, LoR · 01-16-2006, 01:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Curubethion

Number 5. BTW just checking here...you can't guess your own definition, right?

right

Count Comfect · 01-16-2006, 01:56 PM

I'll guess 4

The Gaffer · 01-16-2006, 02:38 PM

I guess 2.

Mercutio · 01-16-2006, 02:51 PM

I guess #4.

Telcontar_Dunedain · 01-16-2006, 03:42 PM

I'll guess 4.

Last Child of Ungoliant · 01-16-2006, 05:39 PM

I guess 4

(this looks like a fun game

)

Bombadillo · 01-17-2006, 11:30 PM

I'll say #5, unable to be aware, mainly because I don't want the writer of #4 to get any more points in one turn.

rohirrim TR · 01-17-2006, 11:41 PM

can I play even though I didn't send you a definition? if yes I'll say #6 for the sake of arguement.

Lief Erikson · 01-18-2006, 12:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by E, LoR

Thanks!!!

the reason why you cant just post the definition is because after all the defs are in you have to guess which one is the correct one, and if every one just post theirs you'll know which ones are fake and which one is real
hope that explains stuff

You could have players put their definition ideas in spoiler bars, if we're all willing to trust one another not to peak. If I posted here (I might; it's been a long time since I played this game, but I know it's fun), I certainly would trust others not to peak what's in the spoiler bars.

01-14-2006, 10:11 PM	#1
E, LoR Elven Warrior Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: somewhere else. Posts: 368	Balderdash!!!! okay, heres how this is going to work: I'm going to pick a word from the dictionary and then you guys are going to PM me with your definitions. Then I'm going to post the definitions. 1 pt if you guess the correct def. 2 pts if your def gets picked. I'll post the scores. Oh, and I get 1 pt if no one guesses the correct answer. If you want to be the dasher just PM me. Please don't use the dictionary. word: incogitant __________________ NEWS FLASH 1. I have a signature 2. I am ready to join forces with Elanor's Angel to kill the rule. Special Let's pant the world in magic in 90 seconds! avatar courtesy of Twista THATS RIGHT FOLK! E, LoR's BACK!

01-14-2006, 10:18 PM	#2
Bombadillo "The Bomb" Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: all over the place Posts: 1,601	OMG this is the best game thread ever. My family and I play the board game almost every time we get together. In person esspecially, it gets hilarious. I'm about to PM you. __________________ Could it be that one path to enlightenment leads through insanity?

01-14-2006, 10:26 PM	#3
E, LoR Elven Warrior Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: somewhere else. Posts: 368	thanks __________________ NEWS FLASH 1. I have a signature 2. I am ready to join forces with Elanor's Angel to kill the rule. Special Let's pant the world in magic in 90 seconds! avatar courtesy of Twista THATS RIGHT FOLK! E, LoR's BACK!

01-15-2006, 01:05 AM	#7
Lotesse of the House of Fëanor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 6,150	O.K., I'll give it a go - PMing now... __________________ Few people have the imagination for reality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

01-15-2006, 11:19 AM	#8
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	hmmm, like the "sorting hat" I must place this in the proper location......I know, Entertainment................POOF! __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

01-14-2006, 10:43 PM	#4
Lotesse of the House of Fëanor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 6,150	Hey, this sounds like a REALLY fun game! Right up my alley - I love etymology, and I love games. My only suggestion to you is, how about play the whole game here in your thread? PMing is no fun, because - well, it's just no fun. Can't you have people put their guessed definitions here, and then after a prescribed amount of time, you give them their pointage? And what's a dasher? I'm VERY interested in this game! __________________ Few people have the imagination for reality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

01-16-2006, 01:39 PM	#10
E, LoR Elven Warrior Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: somewhere else. Posts: 368	okay, here are the long anticipated definitions: Incogitant 1: Immune to mind-reading 2: with out deliberation or though 3: inconsiderate 4: incapable of thinking 5: Unable to be aware 6: Unthinking 7: not understandable by a reasonable person you can post your guesses and as soon as everyone's guessed I'll post up the score. E, LoR __________________ NEWS FLASH 1. I have a signature 2. I am ready to join forces with Elanor's Angel to kill the rule. Special Let's pant the world in magic in 90 seconds! avatar courtesy of Twista THATS RIGHT FOLK! E, LoR's BACK!

01-16-2006, 01:40 PM	#11
Curubethion Fenway Ranger, Lord of Red Sox Nation Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College! Posts: 1,976	Number 5. BTW just checking here...you can't guess your own definition, right? __________________ Adventure...betrayal...heroism... Atharon: where heroes are born. My wife once said to me—when I'd been writing for ten or fifteen years—that I could always go back to being a nuclear engineer. And I said to her, 'Harriet, would you let someone who quit his job to go write fantasy anywhere near your nuclear reactor? I wouldn't!' (Robert Jordan)

01-16-2006, 01:56 PM	#13
Count Comfect Word Santa Claus Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 2,922	I'll guess 4 __________________ Sufficient to have stood, yet free to fall.

01-16-2006, 02:38 PM	#14
The Gaffer Elf Lord Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: In me taters Posts: 3,288	I guess 2.

01-16-2006, 02:51 PM	#15
Mercutio Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Narnia Posts: 1,656	I guess #4. __________________ Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow, eh?". Interested in C.S. Lewis? Visit the forum dedicated to one of Tolkien's greatest contemporaries.

01-16-2006, 03:42 PM	#16
Telcontar_Dunedain Warrior of the House of Hador Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 4,651	I'll guess 4. __________________ Then Huor spoke and said: "Yet if it stands but a little while, then out of your house shall come the hope of Elves and Men. This I say to you, lord, with the eyes of death: though we part here for ever, and I shall not look on your white walls again, from you and me a new star shall arise. Farewell!" The Silmarillion, Nirnaeth Arnoediad, Page 230

01-16-2006, 05:39 PM	#17
Last Child of Ungoliant The Intermittent One Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: here and there Posts: 4,671	I guess 4 (this looks like a fun game )

01-17-2006, 11:30 PM	#18
Bombadillo "The Bomb" Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: all over the place Posts: 1,601	I'll say #5, unable to be aware, mainly because I don't want the writer of #4 to get any more points in one turn. __________________ Could it be that one path to enlightenment leads through insanity?