Hysterical family fun! (Absolute Balderdash)

Member Name: fayp

Product:	Absolute Balderdash
Date:	15/01/08 (66 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Nice to have fun together at all ages!

Disadvantages: Expensive for what it is.

Each Christmas I try to buy a different board game, as it seems to be the one time of the year that we all get time to sit down and play board games.
This year I chose Balderdash, having read positive reviews about it. I paid £25 in Debenhams for it.
It is one of those excellent games that you can play instantly rather than spend hours trying to work out the rules. If you have watched "call my bluff" you understand the rules instantly.
You get a game board, counters, a pad, box of cards and a spinny thing.
Basically you put your counter at the start, and can one space if you correctly guess the answer, fool someone else into believing your answer, or you are calling out the question and no one guesses correctly you can move two spaces. You can also spin the spinny thing and move extra spaces sometimes, but we didn't use that, as it seemed a bit pointless.
If you are calling out the question, you take the box of cards, take one out of the front, and call out the question, these are coloured so you call out the colour of the question you have currently landed on. Occasionally you are land on a square that allows you to choose which question category. With 2340 questions you won't run out for a while!
Sometimes you are just given a persons name, and have to guess what they are famous for, sometime given initials, or a long sounding word. Once the question is read out, each person writes down a fake answer, plus the caller writes out the real answer, so they all look the same, handwritten on the sheets from the pad.
The caller then reads out all the answers, and other players have to guess the correct answer.
We found the game hilarious, with each of us coming up with really daft answers, but often the real answers were just as daft! On several occasions we could not continue until people had stopped laughing as tears poured down our cheeks!
Probably best for people from age 12 up, as it might be a bit daunting for younger children. We found the Grandpa's loved this one as much as the teenagers!
So I thoroughly recommend this for good, family fun.

Summary: A great board game that we really enjoy.