Date: 1984
Publisher: Parker Brothers
Designers: Laura Robinson and Paul Toyne
Why It's Significant (in 25 words or less): Balderdash is the most popular commercial implementation of the parlor game often called Fictionary.
More About Balderdash: One player reads aloud a word that few people have ever heard, let alone used in actual conversation. The other players then write down definitions, trying to make them sound reasonable because you win points for every player that thinks your definition is the real one. An edition known as Beyond Balderdash, which introduced new categories (e.g. movies, people and acronyms), was later published by Canada Games and Parker Brothers / Hasbro.
