Editing Fictionary (section)

== Other versions of the game ==

===Board and party games===
The [[board game]]s ''[[Balderdash]]'', ''Dictionary Dabble'',<ref>"[https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/6478/dictionary-dabble Dictionary Dabble], ''Board Game Geek''. Retrieved 13 Sept. 2019.</ref> ''Flummoxed'', and ''Weird Wordz'' are based on Fictionary.  In one round of the board game ''Derivation'', players describe or fabricate a word's [[etymology]]; players who provide a correct etymology receive one point for doing so, but their entries are then removed from play, and they [[Risk aversion|lose their chance]] to receive multiple points by drawing multiple votes from other players.  Similarly, in the board game ''[[Wise and Otherwise]]'', the Picker randomly chooses a quotation and reads the beginning, and other players try to create realistic endings to the quotation.

===Radio and television===
Fictionary is featured as a segment on the weekly [[United States|US]] [[National Public Radio]] quiz show ''[[Says You!]]'', where it is known as the bluffing round.

In the [[United Kingdom|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.  Two teams of three players (journalists, B and C list celebrities, etc.) compete.  A player from one team has to decide between the three proposed definitions provided by the opposing team.  If the first player correctly identifies the true definition of the word, they earn their team a point.  If they are wrong, the team which provided the definitions are awarded the point.  ''Call My Bluff'' was first aired in October 1965, with [[Robin Ray]] as chair. Presenter [[Robert Robinson (broadcaster)|Robert Robinson]] chaired it for many years. The series finished on 18 June 2004, with a [[Red Nose Day 2011|Comic Relief]] special in 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/rednoseday/24hourpanelpeople/schedule.shtml|title=Schedule|work=Red Nose Day|publisher=[[BBC Online]]|access-date=8 March 2011}}</ref>

Other television [[game show]]s based on the concept include ''[[Take My Word For It]]'' and ''[[Wordplay (game show)|Wordplay]]''. In Japan, {{nihongo|''Tahoiya''|たほいや}} featured the game under the same name. The 30 minute late night game show aired on [[Fuji TV]] in 1993, and was rebroadcast on [[Fuji TV]] 739 [[Satellite television|satellite channel]] in 2008. ''Tahoiya'', originally meaning "a cabin used for boar hunting", was one of the chosen words in early game play.

===Electronic and online games===
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. It is believed that this game is the longest-running on-line game, and has run for more than 3,515 rounds. In May 2005, the game moved to its own website when CompuServe disconnected the forum. Since May 2007 it has been played in a [https://groups.google.com/g/dixonary Google Group], and has a support site at [http://www.dixonary.net www.dixonary.net], which has an archive of the game that goes back, with minor gaps, to its inception in 1989.

[[Jackbox Games]] has produced multiple editions of ''Fibbage'', a game in which the players use their mobile devices to choose categories, write fake answers, and vote for the real answers. However, the questions are general trivia.

Jackbox also produced ''Dictionarium'', with the key difference that the words are all made-up instead of picked from an unabridged dictionary. It has two additional rounds: In the second round, players make up synonyms to the winning definitions. In the final round, players use the synonyms in a sentence.