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Here’s something fun: Balderdash, the game that allows you to see exactly how crazy you and your friends are. Here’s a synopsis: One player reads a word from a card. The word is almost always something sufficiently obscure that no one has ever heard it. It is, however, always a real word. Then everyone writes down a fake definition and the player who gave the word reads all of the definitions supplied by the other players along with the real definition. When the laughter subsides, everyone tries to figure out which definition was the real one. Points are awarded based on your guessing the right definition and the other players guessing your fake definitions. You are rewarded for coming up with realistic definitions.

We usually play another way, which I’m happy to see was included in the Wikipedia article:

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