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From: rick@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.games.trivia
Subject: Re: Different trivia games
Message-ID: <8118@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 19-Dec-85 17:05:53 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 19 17:05:53 1985
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Reply-To: rick@ucla-cs.UUCP (Richard Gillespie)
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
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Keywords: Dictionary game

In article <8112@ucla-cs.ARPA> das@ucla-cs.UUCP (David Smallberg) writes:
> ...
>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.

We called this game Fictionary when we played it. We also would give some
arbitrary number of points to the person picking the word from the dictionary
if NO ONE picked the correct definition. This leads people to search for
words with rather bizarre definitions.
If we were feeling particularly silly we would also have a score for laughs
for the people who like to write funny definitions (eg. pash - a legal
call in the new game craze Cerebral Inebrial Bridge).
-- 
   Rick Gillespie
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