Blurt! Word Race Game | Giveaway
November 23, 2009 by admin - Jennifer
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Tim Walsh shares the Eureka moment of inventing a best-selling board game.
The idea for Blurt! came while I was helping my girlfriend, a third grade teacher, in her classroom. I opened a children’s dictionary and read aloud, “The nut of an oak tree.” I wasn’t looking for a response because I hadn’t asked a question, but a kid next to me mumbled, “Oaknut…. The nut of an oak tree is an oaknut, right?” I said, “No, it’s an acorn, but that’s FUNNY. Let’s try another one.” So I opened up to a random definition and read it aloud. The kids got more and more excited to race each other to the correct words. The light bulb went off, and the game born in a third grade classroom went on to entertain millions of families (not to mention many more third graders!) The best part of the story? I married the teacher.
Please read my previous review here.
This game would make a great Christmas gift for anyone on your list. And I have a donated game for one lucky Dirty Shirt reader to win. Please see rules below to enter to win today.
Giveaway
- MAIN RULE – Tell me in comments who you will give this to if you are the winner. (remember if this rule is not followed then no others will count)
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This giveaway will run through midnight on December 7, with winner being announced the morning of December 8. Winner will be chosen using Random.org from all valid entries and notified via email. Winner will have 48 hours to contact me before another winner is chosen. Giveaway is open to U.S. residents only.
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Our family loves to play games when we’re all together for the holidays! This would be a communal gift that we could all enjoy! Sounds like fun!
I love boardgames! I would definately give this to my sister and her husband! THey are newlyweds and so are we, so we agreed to do couple gifts this year to help us manage our budget!! They would love this and we would have SOOO much fun playing it together!
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I’d give this to my brother-in-law as he always likes to blurt things out at any given moment
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This would be great for our family!
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I would give this to my son, he just loves games! He is always looking for new ones for the whole family to play.
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I would give this to my 14-year old, who would probably say some pretty funny stuff!
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I would love to give this to my 3 kids. They would love it
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If I won it would go to my family. We don’t really have any games so it would be great to win this, sounds really fun!
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I would give this to our family as our family Christmas present! We need some good games with the kids getting older. Most of ours are falling apart or missing pieces!
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This would be a great gift for my sister who often entertains!
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I would give this game to my daughter. I love going to her house and getting everyone together to play games.
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i would probably give it to my oldest daughter she loves board games
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we play alot of boardgames during the winter months-my grandson would love this game
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I would give it to my son but it would be for the whole family and friends to play.
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I would give this to my daughter for her family. With 5 kids they would have a blast with this game. Thank you!
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If I won I’d give the game to my niece. Thanks for the chance.
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If I win, I will either give this game to my children or to a friend.
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I’d give this to my daughter, cause she blurts everything out already!
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I would give this to my Husband….he blurts way too much lol
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This game would be for our whole family on family game night
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My son is a huge wordie fan, so I would give this to him
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I would give this to my daughter Miss N.
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I might keep this for my family or give it to my little sister. Tough choice. Thanks for the giveaway!
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I’d give this game to my parents. They are the keepers of all the games we enjoy on family game nights.
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If I’m the winner, I would give this game to one of my good friends. She loves games & is pretty much a master at them!
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I would give this to my youngest son. He LOVES to play board games and he loves to talk out of turn so I suppose this is the perfect game for him
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This is one game I would keep for our family to play as it sounds so fun! Thanks for the chance.
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This would be for our family to play, thx so much!!
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I’d give this to my husband, and we’d play it with the whole family.
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I would give this to my sons, they would have a blast with it. I would also borrow it to use at work during my speech therapy sessions.
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I’d actually give this game to my husband. We have friends over all the time and this game would be great to play as a group!
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