I have to agree: Balderdash is the king of board games, especially for crafty customers such as myself. Actually, my opponents call me a lying, manipulative ferret, who does nothing without a pinch of chicanery :lol:
Other games that I enjoy:
Scrabble
Cluedo (only if playing with cheeky oppononents. I was once frustrated with a particular player's refusal to show me the card I needed to see, for quite some time. It was really funny, because he knew that I knew he had it, and he even kept it sticking a little up from the other cards in his hand so I could be reminded what I was missing. Trouble was, he always had the other two cards necessary to dispel the accusation and he would show me one of those instead, with exaggerated pomp and flourish).
But....the daddy of all games (not a board game, but in the same class), is UNO. Yep, good old UNO that kids play. But...I developed a new set of rules for it. This was born of a few nights at the hospital where we found our staffroom being invaded by trauma surgeons, paramedics and nurses, looking to socialise because the hospital was closed to all admissions. I cooked up the most devious, wicked, punishing rules for that game, known as the South African rules. It was great. There isn't much that will hold a trauma surgeon's attention, but that game did. It was so popular in fact that the orthopaedic surgeons joined in, and one of them made a trophy out of plaster of Paris: a highly-sought after trophy that I still have today. We had a couple of German doctors over to study trauma and they were soon swearing and cursing, trying to get their names on the trophy.
Great fun. I miss those days.
