Have you ever wondered ... Why are tennis balls fuzzy' In Malarky, you don't have to know the answer, just ACT like you do! Make up answers to all kinds of fascinating questions and present your bluffs to the others. They get to decide if you're the only one with the real answer or if you're fulla Malarky. Based on author David Feldman's best-selling Imponderables book series, Malarky is a box full of laughs.

Includes 942 questions on 314 Malarky cards, 6 bluff cards, 42 voting chips, 6 concealing folders, score pad, die, rules. For 3 to 6 players.

Award Winning Game: 1997 Good Housekeeping - Number 1 Game of the Year

Award Winner: 1998 FamilyFun Magazine's Toy of the Year Award Finalist for Games Ages 10-12

Award Winner: 2003 Major Fun Award

Zillions Magazine said "You have to be creative and think fast"

Consumer Reports said "Kids found another good game called Malarky

You don't have to know the true answer, just fool your opponents. Kids said it was hard to keep a straight face"

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We laughed so hard my sides hurt. I would recommend that when you open the game, you shuffle the cards (for some reason, the questions at the front of the deck aren't as much fun as those questions scattered throughout the deck).

Anyway, we played for 3 hours. Even the kids loved this game. My 10 year old came up with bluff answers that the adults bought off on. That was pretty funny.

If you buy a game each year for your family, I'd buy this one. THis is really a great game.

140 of 146 found the following review helpful:

This is really fun. My kids love this game.Nov 29, 1999

We played this last night with the family, we all laughed at the answers our friends came up with. Most of all we had fun and learned some cool stuff at the same time. If you like bluffing games, like Balderdash, you will love Malarky. It is faster since you don't have to write down the answers, you speak through the answers. The material is much better than Balderdash. Rather than definitions you bluff answers to questions like, "why did pirates wear earrings", or "why are pistachios dyed red".

This is going to be around for a long time. I would recommend this to anyone.

45 of 46 found the following review helpful:

Played till 3:00AM -- Still tiredDec 16, 2000

I write this a bit tired from last night's party. We really laughed and played till we could play no more. Malarky is a fun game. Bluffing is fun, but bluffing questions to David Feldman's Imponderables books is hilarious.

OK, "Why are red lights arranged, Red, Yellow and Green"? "Why was Green designated as being GO?"

"Why do roosters crow in the morning"?

One person has the real answer, the rest must make up their answers. It is funny to see people try to make up answers that are so stupid it makes you laugh.

I thought the scoring was easy.

In any case, I thought I needed to write a review about the relatively obscure game because I think you'll have fun breaking it out at your next party.

31 of 33 found the following review helpful:

Have fun and learn at the same time.Nov 30, 1999

This bluffing game actually teaches you a whole lot of useless, but fun, trivia. The funniest things such as why do dogs smell funny when they get wet? What is a Cootie and where did it come from?

The game has the actual answers. You supply the bluffs.

30 of 32 found the following review helpful:

This is an awesome game!Apr 01, 2000

I remember playing this with my family on New Years Eve and how much laughter and fun we had. The only downfall of the game is that you need 3 to 6 players and in my family we're usually too busy to play at 1 time. But when we do have enough players to play, it's totally worth it. Here's kind of what the game's about: There is a stack of game cards with questions of them such as "Why are tennis balls fuzzy," or "Why do doughnuts have holes," or "Why don't we ever see baby pigeons," and so on. 1 player has the card with the answer on it and all the other players have to bluff an answer. Players tell their answer to everyone and people vote on which one is right. It is really funny to hear some of the peoples answers. This is a great bordoem buster game.

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