BLURT RULES
The objective of this game is very simple - the first person to encircle the whole board and return to the starting point is the winner.
There is a Definition reader who more or less plays the role of a quizmaster, rolling out the die as well as reading out the clues to the answers. There can be either a separate reader for asking the questions or even one of the players alone can assume the role with the result that in the next turn the person to the player's left or right becomes the next reader & so on. However, a separate reader is advisable for novices, who are playing such word games for the first time, to help them out with the words.
In this fashion, minimum number of players required to play BLURT vary from 2-3 with provisions being there to accommodate 12 as well – with the players forming pairs among themselves.
When the dice is rolled, the reader reads out the question on the card corresponding to the number which came up on the dice. The first person to say the word correctly gets to move his pawn ahead by the exact number of places as indicated by the dice. The first person, who reaches his starting point earlier than the others (a direct count is not required) is adjudged the winner.
It may also happen that two players get tied at the same place. In that case a draw is declared which is resolved by the reader reading out the clues to the next question. Only those two players, contesting for the draw, get to answer the question and the first one to do so, retains his pawn at that point while the other has to return to his earlier position.
