Fictionary

Another variation asks players to write the first line of a novel using the title and the blurb read out from the back of the book as clues.

[3][4][5] The board games Balderdash, Dictionary Dabble,[6] Flummoxed, and Weird Wordz are based on Fictionary.

Fictionary is featured as a segment on the weekly US National Public Radio quiz show Says You!, where it is known as the bluffing round.

In the UK, Call My Bluff was a popular daytime BBC television panel game based on Fictionary, which ran from 1965 to 1988, and was revived in 1996.

Tahoiya, originally meaning "a cabin used for boar hunting", was one of the chosen words in early game play.

A version of the game called Dixonary has been running online since July 4, 1989, for the first fifteen years on CompuServe in its Tapcis Forum.

Since May 2007 it has been played in a Google Group, and has a support site at www.dixonary.net, which has an archive of the game that goes back, with minor gaps, to its inception in 1989.

Jackbox also produced Dictionarium, with the key difference that the words are all made-up instead of picked from an unabridged dictionary.