Balderdash is a board game of bluffing and trivia created by Paul Toyne and Laura Robinson.
The game begins by all players rolling a die, with the high roll chosen to be the first "dasher". The dasher draws a "definition card" from the supplied box, and rolls the die to decide which of the five words listed there shall be used (if a six is rolled, the dasher may choose for themselves which word to use). Then the dasher writes the definition (as s...
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