Hi Kevin
This game is very dare to my heart. So please excuse the self-serving nature of this reply. Sad as it is to say, MALTINS one of my proudest achievements.

As the originator of MALTINS™ I like to think Balderdash came from MALTINS ™ and not the other way around. Actually MALTINS ™ came from another game we used to play which was Dictionary… same as MALTINS ™ just with a dictionary.

A round of MALTINS ™ is one revolution of the table with all participants having one turn as Maltin (dealer). The game is complete when everyone has chosen a Maltin synopsis.

Tables must contain more than 4 and less than 8. Less than 4 and its kind of lame. More than 8 and its too hard to keep track of all the reviews and its not fair to those ones read out early.

The sanctioned version that I created in the early 90s in New Zealand (same version shown to Tim and Karrie in Austin) then the scoring is as follows :

1. Players choose the ‘real’ Maltin synopsis - 2pts
2. Others players choosing your ‘fake’ Maltin synopsis - 1pt
3. No one guesses the ‘real’ synopsis - Divide number of all players by 2 and dealer gets that (6 people playing = 3pts)

The scoring was chosen after many years of refinement. Some obvious things for players to remember.

- Dealer should number the random reviews before reading them out. To help players keep track of what was read.

- All are read once and once only.

- Dealers must read all the reviews thoroughly in their mind, so as not to stumble when reading.

- No laughing at your ‘own’ review

- No overuse of the name ‘Taylor’ in regards to an actor
There are a few expert rules that come into play when you’ve been playing with the same group for 12yrs !

We have a collection of few thousand odd fake synopsi for films. Maybe we’ll put out a guide with Leonard’s mug on it - except with a patch on one eye and call it the Pirate Edition.

Have Fun.

And keep On Maltining.
cheers
Ant

ps - the ™ is of course a bad joke.

This game is very dare to my heart. So please excuse the self-serving nature of this reply. Sad as it is to say, MALTINS one of my proudest achievements.

As the originator of MALTINS™ I like to think Balderdash came from MALTINS ™ and not the other way around. Actually MALTINS ™ came from another game we used to play which was Dictionary… same as MALTINS ™ just with a dictionary.

A round of MALTINS ™ is one revolution of the table with all participants having one turn as Maltin. The game is complete when everyone has chosen a Maltin synopsis.

Tables must contain more than 4 and less than 8. Less than 4 and its kind of lame. More than 8 and its too hard to keep track of all the reviews and its not fair to those ones read out early.

The sanctioned version that I created in the early 90s in New Zealand (same version shown to Tim and Karrie in Austin) then the scoring is as follows :

1. Players the ‘real’ Maltin synopsis - 2pts
2. Others players choosing your ‘fake’ Maltin synopsis - 1pt
3. No one guesses the ‘real’ synopsis - Divide number of all players by 2 (6 people playing = 3pts)

The scoring was chosen after many years of refinement.

Some obvious things for people to remember.

- Number the random reviews before reading them out. To help players keep track of what was read.
- All are read once and once only.
- Dealers must read all the reviews thoroughly in their mind, so as not to stumble when reading.
- No laughing at your ‘own’ review
- No overuse of the name ‘Taylor’ in regards to an actor

There are a few expert rules that come into play when you’ve been playing with the same group for 12yrs !

We have a collection of few thousand odd fake synopsi for films. Maybe we’ll put out a guide with Leonard’s mug on it - except with a patch on one eye and call it the Pirate Edition.

Have Fun.
And keep On Maltining.

cheers
Ant

ps - the ™ is of course a bad joke.