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ŋitu:ni napa klapateka! A game to create a new language quickly. Your Christmas present?

14/12/2025 by Peter Bakker & Aymeric Daval-Markussen

The game Gibberers seems to have become an instantaneous cult game among language nerds, but also among more ordinary people – and for a good reason. The goal of the game is to create a new ‘language’, or perhaps a medium of interethnic communication, so that your group or your created civilization can communicate with some kind of invaders from far away. Could it be aliens? Yes. The guests could also be refugees or imperialists from elsewhere on Earth.

It took us a long time to get hold of a copy when I first heard about it on May 31^st this year. At the UK Games Expo 2025 this fall, the 100 copies the seller had brought were all … ↪

The dictionary game: for learning and entertainment

30/11/2021 by Peter Bakker

The dictionary game is an entertaining board game and it costs nothing. That is, if you already have a dictionary, sheets of paper that are blank on at least one side, and a number of pens / pencils, so that everyone has a sheet of paper and something to write with.

I’ve played it with between six and eighteen people. You play individually, and it may be less important who wins, than about having fun.

The game is simple. You take a dictionary from your bookshelf in a language that everyone knows, or a language that no one knows, but then it should be a bilingual dictionary, preferably in both directions. It is usually played with a (not too elementary) … ↪