Talk:Balderdash

Possible merge with Rappakalja

In all fairness to avoid confusion the two games should be kept apart. —Preceding unsigned comment added by AG2013 (talk • contribs) 01:08, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Rolling a "die"??!!

I admit that I'm not familiar with this game, but as far as I know, you're supposed to roll a dice, aren't you? Anyway, just wanted to help out. If my help's not appreciated.... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.178.24.23 (talk) 01:14, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

"Dice" is plural. The singular form of that word is "die". –MuZemike 01:15, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Edit: fixed ;) Anyway, "dice" is also singular. So this means we're both right.

I disagree with origin

I would like to call balderdash on the origin story, "created by Laura Robinson and Paul Toyne of Toronto, Ontario." I can remember playing "the dictionary game" with my family back in 1968; essentially identical, except that the words were picked from a dictionary instead of pre-supplied. Geoffrey.landis (talk) 17:56, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

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2024 - added publication history, Jeopardy! use

Here because the Jeopardy! writers evidently didn't research their clue very well, and because I happen to own a copy of the 1984 TSR edition (someone more familiar with appropriate citation format may want to tinker with my reference structure). Given the date of the TSR edition, I strongly suspect it was the first US release, but have refrained from saying so in the edits because I can't document that properly. (Either way, it seems to me that TSR's presence in the publication chain is sufficiently noteworthy that its omission needed to be corrected.)

The already-referenced BoardGameGeek site has a photo of the game box I own, and makes it clear that the game has bounced through a whole lot of publishers worldwide.

As it happens, I agree with Geoffrey that the game's roots long predate the commercially published version; like him, I recall playing a pure paper-and-pencil (and dictionary) version with my family in the 1960s and '70s. That being the case, I'm inclined to question the citation of Dixit as a "related" game (the play mechanic may be similar, but I find it peculiar to associate a word game and a visual/art game as closely related). But that's a subjective call on my part, and so I've refrained from making that edit myself. ~~ John C. Bunnell (www.lonepenman.net) 50.54.148.189 (talk) 03:22, 17 September 2024 (UTC)