A party game for horrible people! This is right up my alley! Any of you ever played this game before? It's like the R-rated version of Apples to Apples. I think I found my new favorite card game.
Unlike Apples to Apples, Cards Against Humanity has a sentence where you fill in the blank, or answer a question provided by a card laid down by the cardmaster. Each player has 10 white cards, and the cardmaster plays a black card that has a fill-in-the-blank sentence, or a question to be answered by a white card. And the person who plays the best white card wins that hand. For example: Black card: "I drink to forget _______________." White card 1: "Shaquille O'Neil's acting career" White card 2: "M. Night Shamalan" White card 3: "Picking up girls at the abortion clinic" White card 4: "Oprah crying into a Lean Cuisine"
Oh yeah, I've played it lots. Not in a while though. My husband really hates it, and some of my friends don't like it either. It was really fun at first, but then the shock value kind of wore off, and people don't seem so excited about it anymore. What was funny was playing it at christmas a few years ago and having to explain to my mother in law what a "queef" was.
Yeah I'd be afraid of wearing off all the fun and novelty by playing this game more than once a week. I guess that's the reason why the makers of this game sell expansion packs of more cards sold separately. I'll be good to play this game on rare occasion to keep the fun of it alive.
I love this game but it's best played only once in a while. I'm actually organizing a game at my house in October as a kind of house warming event. I've thrown away cards that are very American. For example "pabst blue ribbon" blue ribbon here is an ice cream so it just makes no sense. What's your favourite card? (Surely everyone has a favourite) mine is probably, being a motherfucking sorcerer or maybe warm velvety muppet sex :rofl:
i've watched other people play it. a lot. it seems to be really super popular among most of the people (most of them around half my age) i to any extent know, at this time in my life. i've often been invited to participate, and for reasons i don't claim to understand, have so far avoided joining in. mostly, i tell myself, so that everyone else who wants to, can have a chance to do so. making no sense, in a humorous way, seems to me, a central, even essential, part of it. (trying to see how un-"politically correct" it can make them, seems to be another) one can certainly make up their own cards and add to the deck. and i know of at least one person, who brings a deck so large, the box he needs to carry it in, is almost three feet long. not by creating new cards. he's simply collected that many of them. (i don't know if that's every preprinted deck in existence, but i suspect if not all, he owns most of them)
I have played it with the kids and their friends. It is a fun game but not one I would want to play with people I did not know or that did not know me. I would think playing it often would take the edge of the game or shock value to some extent.
