Nehari

Nehari is a traditional Indian game (No it's not it's a curry made from lambs brains). The basic idea is that a group of drunken buffoons sit around and make fools of themselves by telling the most preposterous, unconvincing lies they they can think of, like for example "Nehari is made out of sheep's brains". This apparently is the Indian version of "Soylent Green is made out of people". The most preposterous liar is the winner.

The postal rules are a little different:

1) Each turn, each player sends in one preposterous lie that *might* just be true. An example might be "Geoff Brown owns 4,000 pornographic novels (actually it's mags, but I'm not one to be pendantic)".

2) The GM prints these lies with no names attached and adds one statement of his own which is true, but sounds implausible, for example "In a trial by combat in 1456, two men were ordered to fight to the death while dressed as sheep". True, honest.

3) Each turn, each player tries to guess which statement of the previous turn was the true one.

4) Scoring is one point for guessing the right answer, and one point for each other player that guesses your wrong answer. Most points after 10 rounds wins. That's it.

By Geoff Brown