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First Posted: 07/01/11 02:52 PM ET Updated: 08/31/11 06:12 AM ET

nytimes.com:

The best after-dinner games need no special equipment to play: no dice, cards, tiles or machines that bleat at wrong answers. Classics like charades and the dictionary game — sometimes called Fictionary, and tweaked for the unimaginative under the brand name Balderdash — call at most for paper and pencils. They’re D.I.Y. and lo-fi.

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The best after-dinner games need no special equipment to play: no dice, cards, tiles or machines that bleat at wrong answers. Classics like charades and the dictionary game — sometimes called Fictio...
The best after-dinner games need no special equipment to play: no dice, cards, tiles or machines that bleat at wrong answers. Classics like charades and the dictionary game — sometimes called Fictio...
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LisaCACO
someone ate my micro-bio!
10:29 AM on 07/05/2011
well, since most of my cohorts these days are 6 year old kids, the books will be slightly different :D.
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ChelleAgain
It's Chelle ... again.
06:31 PM on 07/03/2011
Yes, next time I'm at my summer house with a dozen of my closest friends and confidantes, I'll try it.
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couer
09:42 PM on 07/01/2011
Sounds fun but I'm the only one that could conceive of a sentence....everyone else would simply write "It was the best of times to drink it was also the worst of times to drink".......