Product Description

Why do we say that someone who is fired gets the sack? This, my friends, is what is known as an Imponderable. It is something we are all familiar with but almost no one knows why it is so. In this game, you don't need to know the answer to this Imponderable, you only need to convince the other players you know it. So your powers of persuasion and your poker face will serve you far better than the facts. The real reason we use the sack expression? Because ancient Romans used to punish their criminals by putting them in sacks and dumping them in the river. Learn all kinds of interesting facts while you lie to your friends! The game comes with 942 questions on 314 cards, 6 bluff cards, 42 voting chips, 6 concealing folders, a scorepad, a die and rules. For 3 to 6 players.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1390 in Toys & Games
• Brand: Patch Products Inc.
• Model: 7350T
• Released on: 2004-06-15
• Dimensions: 3.38" h x 8.25" w x 12.00" l, 2.20 pounds

Features

• 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're always involved, either coming up with a bluff or giving the real answer in your own words. 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."

Editorial Review
Just how good are you at fooling your friends and family? Test your powers of deception with Malarky, the game in which players try to bluff answers to such questions as "What is the 'cottage' in cottage cheese?" and opponents try to determine the real answers from the ones that are simply malarky. It's based on David Feldman's Imponderables series, which includes the books Imponderables: The Solution to the Mysteries of Everyday Life, Do Penguins Have Knees? An Imponderables Book, and How Do Astronauts Scratch an Itch: An Imponderables Book. The game asks the questions that everyone wonders about from time to time. After a question is read aloud, one player (unbeknownst to the others) reads the correct answer, while the other players present bluff answers--as convincingly as they can--and then each player votes for the answer they think is correct. Points are awarded when your bluff answer receives votes or if you vote for the correct answer. --Lisa Whipple

Skill Set
Creative Expression

Awards
Number 1 Game of the Year (Good Housekeeping, September 1997)
Buyer's Guide to Games (Games Magazine, 1998)
Zillions Magazine, Consumer Reports for Kids (March/April 1998)
National Association for Gifted Children Holiday Educational Toy List (1998)
The FamilyFun Kid Test Toy of the Year Award Finalist (1998)
LifeWorks' Real Life Award (1999)

Customer Reviews

Want to laugh and learn,this is fun, educational family game
Our family had so much fun playing this over Thanksgiving, I had to write this. We read the great reviews this game received on Amazon so we decided to buy one. Well, we pulled this out and played by the fire.

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.

This is really fun. My kids love this game.
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.

Played till 3:00AM -- Still tired
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.