The American Atheists Convention is on this weekend.
Nick Fish @NotNickFish 21 hours ago
Playing Cards Against of Humanity with donations going to Planned Parenthood of Memphis. Awesome.
Nick Fish @NotNickFish 19 hours ago
Of course this was the winning play for our Cards Against Humanity tournament. #AAcon15
Shouldn’t worry about Dawkins’ twitter feed, when there are children starving in Africa; that’s much worse.
I should be carrying bottles of water to California instead.
Why have I not heard of this game??!?‽?
Chigau – it’s really fun.
LOL!! Deal me in!!
Meh, I’ve played a CAH a few times, locally and once at WIS2 with a roomful of people in various states of inebriation, and I just don’t get it. My sense of humour must be too non-standard — I find myself going “Huh?” while everyone else is laughing at the winning cards.
One piece of advice: don’t allow parents and their grown children in the same game. Trust me, it gets a little weird….
How many people does one need?
’cause I’ve just realised that most of my meat-space friends
might not
see
the fun
.
.
Now I’m sad.
Is this like “Apples to Apples”? My kids like that one O_O
The game is played very simply (so it can be played in various forms of high) Every player draws a “hand” of 5 white “answer” cards. Going around the table, each player takes turns being the dealer/judge. The dealer/judge turns over a black “question” card. Then all the players except the dealer/judge give the dealer/judge a white card that they think is the best answer to the question card. The dealer/judge then does a dramatic reading of the question and its answers and decides which is best; the best answer wins the round. Continue until bored or sober.
When I’ve played we’ve done “dealer’s choice” where the dealer is allowed to come up with variants in their round, such as: pick 3 more cards and your answer has to come from those 3, and the remaining 2 get discarded. Or each player has to do their own dramatic reading. Or stealing cards from the deck is OK but if you get caught you’re disqualified (“tea party rules”) etc.
It’s exactly like “Apples to Apples,” but definitely not for kids.
When I played it, I came to two conclusions:
1) It would be lots of fun with the right group of people
2) I would never be one of the right group of people