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This is my first try at a word game thread, bear with me if I make any mistakes.

The rules:

• The object of the game is to slip an unchallenged but unchallengable truth past the other players.
  
  No valid entry may mention any ForumGarden member under any circumstances. This is a non-controversial game, not a warzone.
  
  Participants post what they claim to be entirely factual within a limit of one hundred words. It may be true or it may be a lie. The more outrageous the claim the better the post. Creativity, rather than obscurity, should receive applause.
  
  Anyone who thinks he sees a fully truthful post can challenge. Incorrect challengers will gain a duffer point.
  
  The winner (yes, this is a limited game, not an open-ended thread, and there's a prize) is the poster of a verifiable entry which goes unchallenged for two days. An entrant claims victory by showing a respectable uncontroversial URL illustrating the truth once the challenge period has elapsed.
  
  Duffer points will be totalled and the highest scorer will be declared Credulous.
  
  I have a suspicion that Radio 4 has a current half hour a week dedicated to a loosely related format and that's where the notion has come from. Never mind, plagiarism is the stuff of life.

If the prize is your spam for a month im not playing otherwize yeah that could be fun, i'll have a go one night whilst under the influence of some red wine

Although I like the sound of this game, I'm just waiting for somebody to have a go first, because I'm not wholly confident that I know what to do....and since I've embarrassed myself once today, I just can't face it again! (Is it a bit "Call my Bluffish?" The kids and I used to really love the board version of that)

theia;477175 wrote: Although I like the sound of this game, I'm just waiting for somebody to have a go first, because I'm not wholly confident that I know what to do....and since I've embarrassed myself once today, I just can't face it again! (Is it a bit "Call my Bluffish?" The kids and I used to really love the board version of that)


Here's my attempt to translate "Spotian dialect" -

It's kind of like Balderdash. Your job is to post either a lie that sounds true or a true statement that sounds like a lie. The other posters have to figure out which is which. If you think somebody posted something that it actually true you challenge it!

eg)

In the Star Trek series James Kirk never uses the words "Beam me up Scottie".

This is true so someone has to quote it and shout "Challenge"

in between, people will write stuff that isn't true so finding the truth becomes trickier.

flopstock;477302 wrote: Does it have to be something that can be researched or can you make something up out of thin air?


If it's a lie then make it up, if it is an odd fact then present it in a way that seems you made it up.

Pinky;477304 wrote: In the seventeeth century, the word 'Jealous' used to mean suspicious.

Am I doing it right?:-3Exactly right. And it's a lie, I reckon, so I'm not going to fall for it.

Oh right, I see. I thought it had to be a story about something :-5

Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post 1972

The king of diamonds is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card

A certain four letter word is the acronym of:



Fornication Under Consent of the King.

you can't smell anything while you're sleeping.

Pinky;477328 wrote: Hey, I know that one! I say True!

Didn't they used to hang that on the door when a Lord declared his right to be the first to sleep with a newly-married woman? Can't for the life of me think of the correct term!


Etymological dictionary says:

a difficult word to trace, in part because it was taboo to the editors of the original OED when the "F" volume was compiled, 1893-97. Written form only attested from early 16c. OED 2nd edition cites 1503, in the form fukkit; earliest appearance of current spelling is 1535 -- "Bischops ... may ***** thair fill and be vnmaryit" [Sir David Lyndesay, Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaits], but presumably it is a much more ancient word than that, simply one that wasn't likely to be written in the kind of texts that have survived from O.E. and M.E. Buck cites proper name John le ****er from 1278.

Pinky;477328 wrote: Hey, I know that one! I say True!

Didn't they used to hang that on the door when a Lord declared his right to be the first to sleep with a newly-married woman? Can't for the life of me think of the correct term!


droit(s) du (or de) seigneur - an alleged custom of mediæval times by which the feudal lord might have sexual intercourse with the bride of a vassal on the wedding-night, before she cohabited with her husband.

According to "game rules" YZGI scores a point and the game goes on.

Let me have a go at this.....



Bromohyperhydrosis is a condition that causes excessive foul-smelling sweating.



If the game has ended then please ignore!:D

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle

I challenge! Sorry!:)

Fibonacci;488104 wrote: I challenge! Sorry!:)


it's true......spot how do we count this??????????



good going fibo:)

Depends on whether you were telling the truth, Guppy. I expect you were, in which case he gets to grin and you kick your fins in annoyance.

I'm calling his Bromohyperhydrosis true too, just so he doesn't win straight off.

ArnoldLayne;488213 wrote: There has been a number one hit in the UK charts by someone who sits in the House of Lords


I'm not going near that, I bet you made it up. Good one either way.

ArnoldLayne;488252 wrote: The Romans thought amber was actually made from cats p!ss


Cobblers.

Mind you, Xylene smells exactly that way, I worked for a while in a paint factory doing quality control and it was so much the nastiest of the ingredients.

You're good at this.