Re:Bullshit Ability as an Honest Signal of Intelligence
by abyssin on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @08:47AM
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There used to be a program on the Belgian national French-speaking radio called "Le Jeu des dictionnaires". The rules were similar but the radio hosts never played seriously, and just made up absurd and hilarious definitions.
Re:Bullshit Ability as an Honest Signal of Intelligence
by jml7c5 on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @05:20AM
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictionary
It's very close, though your version would be more like "The Encyclopedia Game".
Re:Bullshit Ability as an Honest Signal of Intelligence
by _Microft on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @05:30AM
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It is very similar indeed.
Each turn, one player draws a card, reads out the word, name or situation listed and writes down the correct answer shown on the backside. All others think up an explanation and write this on their piece of paper instead. At the end of each turn, the sheets are collected, shuffled, read out by the active player and the players have to vote for the answer that they think is most likely to be correct. Points are awarded if they chose the correct answer and additional points for everyone they fooled with their own creation.
(And now the question is whether the described game actually exists.)