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From: das@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.games.trivia
Subject: Re: Different trivia games
Message-ID: <8112@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 19-Dec-85 00:20:03 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 19 00:20:03 1985
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Keywords: New game based on the Oxford dictionary

In article <527@micomvax.UUCP> steve@micomva.UUCP (Steve Grice) writes:
>                                          There's a new game just
>out here in Canada called Oxford trivia. The questions are all words
>from the oxford dictionary, and the required answers are the words'
>meanings which must be chosen from 3 definitions.

Someone who would buy this game is the same kind of person who would buy
the marketed versions of Mastermind, Battleships, or any ancient pencil-and-
paper-game-that-now-comes-with-a-nice-plastic-board-and-pretty-pieces.

Oxford Trivia is just "The Dictionary Game", a game-party classic.  Someone
picks a word from a dictionary that they think no one else would know (one that
they probably don't know either).  Everyone writes down a made-up definition.
The person who picked the word mixes them up and reads all the definitions
(including the real one) in random order.  Everyone says which definition they
think is the real one.  If you made up a definition, you get one point for
each person who chooses it; those who guess the correct definition also get a
point.  (The person who picked the word gets no points.)  Everyone takes a turn
being the one to pick a word.  Play as many rounds as you like.  All you need
is a dictionary, paper, and pencils.  Only uncreative people would buy a game
with already-made-up definitions -- that's the fun of it!

-- David Smallberg, das@locus.ucla.edu, {ihnp4,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!das
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From: das (David Smallberg)
Newsgroups: net.games.trivia
Subject: Re: Different trivia games
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Date: 19 Dec 85 05:20:03 GMT
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Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
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Keywords: New game based on the Oxford dictionary

In article <527@micomvax.UUCP> steve@micomva.UUCP (Steve Grice) writes:
>                                          There's a new game just
>out here in Canada called Oxford trivia. The questions are all words
>from the oxford dictionary, and the required answers are the words'
>meanings which must be chosen from 3 definitions.

Someone who would buy this game is the same kind of person who would buy
the marketed versions of Mastermind, Battleships, or any ancient pencil-and-
paper-game-that-now-comes-with-a-nice-plastic-board-and-pretty-pieces.

Oxford Trivia is just "The Dictionary Game", a game-party classic.  Someone
picks a word from a dictionary that they think no one else would know (one that
they probably don't know either).  Everyone writes down a made-up definition.
The person who picked the word mixes them up and reads all the definitions
(including the real one) in random order.  Everyone says which definition they
think is the real one.  If you made up a definition, you get one point for
each person who chooses it; those who guess the correct definition also get a
point.  (The person who picked the word gets no points.)  Everyone takes a turn
being the one to pick a word.  Play as many rounds as you like.  All you need
is a dictionary, paper, and pencils.  Only uncreative people would buy a game
with already-made-up definitions -- that's the fun of it!

-- David Smallberg, das@locus.ucla.edu, {ihnp4,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!das