BALDERDASH [unclaimed]
telnet balderdash.su 9000
Players now: no count (nothing here says why)
Reachable: 84.9% of the last 90 days
Longest outage: 1d 18h
When people are on (UTC)
No hour of the week has produced a player count. 129 hours across the week have
no measurement yet. 39 hours across the week answered but produced no count.
Mon — no count in any hour, 17 hours not measured, 7 hours probed but
uncountable
Tue — no count in any hour, 20 hours not measured, 4 hours probed but
uncountable
Wed — no count in any hour, 20 hours not measured, 4 hours probed but
uncountable
Thu — no count in any hour, 19 hours not measured, 5 hours probed but
uncountable
Fri — no count in any hour, 20 hours not measured, 4 hours probed but
uncountable
Sat — no count in any hour, 17 hours not measured, 7 hours probed but
uncountable
Sun — no count in any hour, 16 hours not measured, 8 hours probed but
uncountable
counted = we got in and read a number, including a measured zero
uncounted = we got in and no number could be read
not measured = we have no measurement for that hour
How many, over time (3 Jun 2026 – 31 Aug 2026, UTC)
Probed in this range, and no player count could be read from any of it.
Reachable (last 90 days)
Reachable 84.9% of the 13 days we have measured. 4 days unreachable. Longest
outage 1d 18h (connection refused). 77 days predate anything we measured.
3 Jun – 18 Aug: 77 days not measured
21 Aug: 1 day unreachable (dns did not resolve)
26 Aug – 28 Aug: 3 days unreachable (connection refused)
Capabilities (0 of 3 disagree)
MCCP measured: yes declared: -
MXP measured: yes declared: -
MSSP measured: NO declared: -
Declared by the game
codebase ROM (measured, 4h)
language Russian (declared, 11d)
name Balderdash (declared, 11d)
Connect screen
[connect screen: 34 lines, text only]
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/**\_ _/***\/***\_ * /**\ _/***\*\ /***\ ||
|****\_ _/*****||*****\_ |**| * _/****_/*| \_***\ /##\
|**_***\_ _/****_**||**_****\_ |***\_ _/****_/|**| \***\ |##|
|**|\_***|/****_/|**||**|\_****\|**_**\ /****_/ |**| _/***/ /####\
|**\_ \_/ |**_/ _/**||**| \_**||**|\**\\***[ |**|_/****/ |####|
|****\_ |**|_/****||**| |**||**| \**\\***\_ |*******_/ |####|
|**_***\_ |******_**||**| |**||**| \**\\****\ |**____/ |####|
|**|\****\|*** _/|**||**| |**||**| _/**//***_/ |**| /####\
|**|/***_/|**_/ |**||**| |**||**|/**_//***/ |**| |######|
|*****_/ |**| |**||**| |**||*****/ /***[ |**| _/\######/\_
|***_/ |**| |**||**| |**||***_/ \****\_ \__/ ___/ \####/ \___
\__/ \__/ \__/\__/ \__/\__/ \_****\ ___/ / \##/ \ \___
\_*/ {___mud.balderdash.ru:9000___}
MUD started 15.01.2001 by: __ ___ ___ \___ \ /##\ / ___/
/**\ _/***\/***\ \_ /####\ _/
Alexander Speransky, |**| _/*****||***| __ \/######\/
Evgeny Larionov, _/***| _/****_**||***| /**\ __ |######|
Igor Zankovets /**_**|/****_/|**||***| |**| /**\ \####/
======================== /**/|**||**_/ _/**||***| |**| |**| |####|
Original DikuMUD: Hans /**/ |**||**|_/****||***| |**| |**| |####|
Staerfeldt,Katja Nyboe, /**/ |**||******_**||***| |**| |**| |####|
Tom Madsen,Michael \**\_ |**||****_/|**||***| |**| |**| \####/
Hammer Seifert,Sebastian \_**\|**||**_/ |**||***| |**| |**| |##|
Based on MERC 2.1 code by \*****||**| |**||***|/***|/***| |##|
Hatchet,Furey,and Kahn \_***||**| |**||************/ |##|
ROM2.4(c)1993-1998 Russ Taylor \__/\__/ \__/\___________/ |##|
|##|
[1] - Win1251 [2] - KOI8 [3] - Alt(CP866) |##|
[4] - Win1251(IAC) [5] - Mac [6] - Translit |##|
\##/
Select your codepage: [1] \/
What changed
2026-08-19 NAME recorded as Balderdash (staff)
2026-08-19 LANGUAGE recorded as Russian (staff)
2026-08-19 endpoint recorded as balderdash.su 9000 (handshake)