My sister’s boyfriend is always hard to shop for. Regardless, this is definitely ALWAYS the hit of the night when we get our adult capable friends into the side room, out of hearing range of others, for the ultimate replacement of Apples to Apples. A simple deck of blanks cards using the same expansion deck case would be extremely cheap and easy to produce, allowing some of us more obnoxious admirers of the game to step it up to the next level. The only complaint I have is that you can’t purchase additional blank cards. But of course, keeping the entire deck in play is where the real value comes in. I just put a colored dot at the lower left of each of the ‘sensitive’ cards and quickly go through and remove those few cards for general use games. To clean the deck up for general use, there are about 30 or so cards that can be removed to ‘cleanse’ the deck of the potentially offensive cards, making it pretty much acceptable to any adult crown. I always overplay the potential offensiveness of the game and it always turns out that eliminates the people that you would have a problem playing with. The only reservation is that you must play with friends that are not easily offended. If you like Apples to Apples, not only do you pretty much already know the rules but will have a lot more fun. I wish there had been a way to have these discussions with parents or another responsible adult when I was a young teenager and had to find out what I could from a 1957 Encyclopedia Brittanica and a Webster’s Dictionary. It’s not for everyone, but this family found it hilarious and vital. There’s so much for parents to teach to and learn about their kids, and to a degree, vice-versa. In an age when information is available 24/7, along with misinformation, this may be the opportunity for families who value open discussion, education and critical thinking to open the door to those discussions. What made breakthrough shows like South Park and The Simpsons funny when they premiered was their seeming inappropriateness, but they too broached topics that ought to be discussed by parents and children. They did, and what ensued was hilarity, but even better, it opened channels for discussion about sex, politics, justice, racism, homophobia and all the things that exist in society, and when things are funny and when they are not. The somewhat precocious 14-year-old overheard that I had Cards Against Humanity and made it clear that while he had never played or even seen the game, he knew enough about it that he wanted to play if his parents would give him permission. I brought it to a family dinner, knowing that the two kids, ages 11 and 14, would vacate to the basement after dinner to play on their computers. But if you have a sick sense of humor or even just a little odd you will love this. Hilarious, I won’t spoil it for you guys but these cards will have you bursting out laughing the second you read them.Cons:1: they aren’t water proof?Other thoughtsI really couldn’t think of any cons but I didn’t want to leave it empty.If you are easily offended you might not like this game. It took five of us three hours to play through all of the cards.3: comedy. similar to high quality playing cards.2: Quantity: there is an absurd number of cards in this game. PROS AND CONSPros:1: Quality: The cards are of a good quality. it took us about three hours to complete this.The first time we played this we were sober, the second we were not.Well, you know what time it is. It turns out we played through the entire deck the first time we played. I picked this up since my family loves to play games like Munchkin, apples to apples, quelf, ETC.I knew what I was getting into but they were in for quite the surprise.
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