Designers: Several

This game is perhaps the best game to play with friends who are drunk and also, at their core, terrible people. It is a very, very bad game to play with people who are not terrible people. Because they will quickly learn that you are terrible.

Cards Against Humanity is the same basic game as Apples to Apples, only R-rated (or X-rated with the right group). One player chooses a subject matter card and reads it aloud. It will either be a question, or it will have a blank that is filled in. Everyone else gives the questioner one card face down. He shuffles them, reads them aloud, and then based on whatever criteria he deems fit, chooses a ‘winner’ (usually aided a great deal by guffaws at the table), who will then have to sheepishly expose themselves as the person who is, in fact, that terrible.

Interesting Mechanic: Rando Calrissian. Our circle of friends chooses to play with the optional rule that you throw one card in randomly from the draw pile. This provides a truly random answer that is usually head-scratching nonsense, but more frequently than you’d think, turns out to be more terrible than all of you (fate has a cruel sense of humor). People LOVE it when Rando wins a hand. I have once seen Rando almost win a game.

Cards Against Humanity is a game that many hardcore gamers have come to mock and disdain. Countless similar game mechanics have been tried. But still, no game has made me laugh as frequently and as reliably as Cards Against Humanity. But then again, I’m a terrible person.

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