Cards Against Humanity

**youhas** · Joined: 21 Jul 2006 Posts: 3015 Location: Santa Clara, CA

Out of idle curiosity: have any people here played Cards Against Humanity? It's sort of been spreading through my local social network like so many fire ants recently. A cursory search suggests that bclare and I have both played it, but I haven't seen any other references to it, and I was just wondering how widespread it was at this point.

The general gist of the game is "like Apples to Apples, but for terrible human beings". Everyone has a hand full of white "response" cards. Each person takes turns serving as judge, reading one of the black "prompt" cards, which will be either a question or a fill-in-the-blank situation; you play the response that you think is most likely to be selected as a winner by the judge. A reasonably standard and straightforward affair, save for the caliber of the responses on the white cards. A couple of example rounds from recent games I've played:

Prompt: What did the U.S. airdrop to the children of Afghanistan?
Responses:
- Fiery poops.
- A sad birthday party.
- Fancy Feast(tm).
- Soup that is too hot.
- Smallpox blankets.
- Neil Patrick Harris.

Prompt: "_____: kid tested; mother approved."
- Catapults.
- Incest.
- Being a dick to children.
- Stranger danger.
- Pac-Man uncontrollably guzzling cum, forever.
- Coat-hanger abortions.

Somewhat obviously, the sorts of responses above suggest that no well-adjusted human being should play this game, ever. Which naturally means that I've been spending my time getting roped into marathon sessions of it at the tail ends of all sorts of social gatherings. (Though at least it's proved a learning experience for some people. Sometimes it's highbrow "what is heteronormativity?" learning; sometimes it's... er, less-highbrow "what is pixelated bukkake?" learning. But at least we're slowly expanding everyone's horizons all the same.) It is definitely not a game for the easily-offended of any stripe, though, given the sheer scope that cards name-checking awful things - Auschwitz! white privilege! the Three-Fifths Compromise! passable transvestites! - touch upon. But if you're of a certain constitution, it's buckets of fun.

Anyway, just wanted to see if anyone had actually played this, or had any amusing anecdotes of their own to relay, or if this was still confined to some sort of alpha-dork subset of humanity at this point.

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**krisdaschwab912** · Joined: 24 Jan 2007 Posts: 6567 Location: UW-Eau Claire

I never heard of this, but this sounds like the sort of thing I would really enjoy.
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**Silly** · Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 3:17 pm Post subject:

I heard about it a few months ago. I love Apples to Apples, and I'm a reasonably terrible human being, so this is right up my alley. Sadly, no-one I know near me shares both of those traits, so I have no real opportunity to play.

however... I did just find this. Add in Skype, Vent or other choice of VoIP and some brewskies, and we might be onto something here...
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**bclare** · Joined: 21 Jun 2008 Posts: 6048 Location: Boston

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**PiemanLK** · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 4711 Location: /export/home

I love this game, but I've only ever played it online. I'd love to play it with people, if my IRL social circle wasn't close to non-existent.
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**Cabanon** · Joined: 29 Oct 2007 Posts: 6464 Location: Quebec, Canada

OMG, this is the right game for my IRL friend. haha very nice.
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**blingdomepiece** · Joined: 03 Aug 2007 Posts: 4358 Location: Ottawa ON Canada

Played it once last year. I was a bit too good at it :-P.
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**GuitarHailz** · Joined: 11 Jun 2007 Posts: 4910 Location: Austin, Texas

Ah yes, "Assholes to Assholes." The game you wanted Apples to Apples to be.

I'd love to play this more, but my real life social group is late-20s-or-30-somethings and most of them have kids, so we'd need to find a place to play out of earshot for sure. :P And the ones that don't would rather go out drinking or relive their lost college years than stay home and play a silly card game, so I'll have to do some fancy convincing to get like-minded terrible people to stay in and play it with us.

Also, I'd be down for an online game one of these days especially if youhas was involved. Lord knows I need to pop back in IRC more often.

Just say when and where!
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**Vampyromaniac** · Joined: 08 Feb 2008 Posts: 1216

"Is Cards Against Humanity available in my inferior country?"
^best line from the website FAQ

In other news, this does seem like the kind of thing I would enjoy (and dragging youhas into IRC sounds like a great deal of fun). We could always use that old SH_Debate channel.
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