"the game", known hereabouts as hogwash®, is a total ripoff of the commercial game Balderdash®, which itself was torn whole from from Wilbur Webster's Dictionary Game (Copyright © 1987), which we used to play with pencil, paper and a dictionary when we were kids (the 60s). not knowing any better, we called it the dictionary game.
we were an odd lot, even then.
-joe (hogmaster®) friday
(this failure to capitalize on the commercial prospects of something we played as youngsters ranks just behind our failure with a game we called Minnesota Eights, in which nearly every card in a 52-card deck came to have a special meaning; e.g., reversing the direction of play, causing people to skip their turn or draw cards and skip their turn, exchanging hands or portions thereof, etc. also, when a person got down to one card, she had to call "last card" or when exposed, draw one and skip her next turn. is this mindful of Uno® yet?)
