Malarky An Imponderables Bluffing Game
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Product Summary

• 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"

Toys and Games Reviews of Malarky An Imponderables Bluffing Game

Customer Review: Complex, slow-moving, dry
Summary: 1 Stars

To start with, the questions are as dry as toast. Like other reviewers have stated, you don't much care what the answer is. The dullness of the typical "Malarkey" question does not exactly stimulate your creative thinking faculties, which makes it difficult to come up with a farfetched, yet likely-sounding bluff answer. Not that it makes you feel stupid; it's more of an "apathy" feeling.

The scoring system is needlessly complex. It takes too long to tabulate the scores at the end of a round, which causes boredom to set in for all the players who aren't already bored by the gameplay. We've tried to play this game on several occasions, and have yet to play past one rotation through all the players (and sometimes there are only 4 players). At the game's conclusion, nobody even cares who earned the most points - they're just glad it's over.

Additionally, it always seems that one "style" of answer sounds correct for the question. When the players give their various answers, they either all sound like minor variations on the same theme, or are so off-the-wall that it's a dead giveaway you're listening to a fake.

Games such as "Balderdash" make this concept of "faking the answer" much more fun and entertaining. The most entertainment we received from "Malarkey" was flinging the colored tokens at each other (and those tokens can take a lot of punishment - thus the 5-star rating for durability).

Description of Malarky An Imponderables Bluffing Game

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.

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