Calling their Blufr, yes, way |
Blufr is where you try to guess whether something is BS or not. I prefer the title BS or Not better, but dropping the extra ‘fer’ is clearly more trendy. There are numerous ways to receive Blufr that don’t require visiting the website directly such as a Blufr RSS feed or subscribing via email.
They also provide code which lets you embed Blufr in your site or blog post and change twice daily. Go ahead and try to call their Blufr below. No way. Yes, way.
Hat tip to Techcrunch.
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It’s quite addictive isn’t it.
Comment by Steve Newson — September 16, 2006 @ 4:36 am PST
Actually, I got kind of bored with the game itself after a few minutes (in other words I sucked at it, lol), but I like the viral marketing aspect. We’re seeing more sites that allow you to take their content and use it on your sites (YouTube and Blaugh come immediately to mind) and it’s paying dividends. Good for them, good for you (if their sites can handle the bandwidth).
I’d like to see a dictionary site do something like Balderdash. Ever played that one, Steve? Probably would make a fun online game if enough people could play. I didn’t look, but somebody has probabaly already done that.
Comment by TDavid — September 16, 2006 @ 4:54 am PST
I’m not sure if you had / have something similar in the US but in the UK I grew up with a TV program called “Call My Bluff”. This was a team game in which the basic premise is one team provide three definitions of an obscure word taken from the Oxford English Dictionary, one definition is real, the other two are complete twaddle. The opposing team must guess which is the correct defintion. The teams take turns and in a half hour slot each team got about three turns. Much hilarity ensued and in a truly British way the result of the game was fairly meaningless, the entertainment was all about how people played the game.
Dictionary, Balderdash, Blufr and Call My Bluff all seem like variations on the same theme.
Comment by Steve Newson — September 16, 2006 @ 7:28 am PST
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