Cards Against Humanity

Players

Cards Against Humanity is a game for 4 to 20 players over the age of 17. It is a party game for adults, although there is an expansion for families.

Required objects

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Discovering the game cards

Cards Against Humanity is played with two types of cards: question cards —black cards— and answer cards —white cards—.

Total number of rounds

Cards Against Humanity is played in rounds. In each round, one player acts as judge -or Czar, as it is called in the official rules of the game-, and is the one who determines who wins the point for that round.

The first ZAR

According to the official rules, the first CZAR is the last person who took a poop! Yep, you read that right. 💩 😂 That detail already gives us an idea of the type of questions and answers that are part of the game.

Goal of the game

The goal of Cards Against Humanity is to create the most fun question-answer combination.

White card deal

All players draw 10 white cards at random without being seen by the others.

ZAR asks

The player acting as CZAR in that round takes a black card and reads it aloud.

Selection of answers

Each player chooses, among his white cards, the one he considers to provide the most amusing text to answer that question and hands it face down to the ZAR.

ZAR reads

The CZAR shuffles all the answer cards to keep things anonymous, and then reads them out loud one by one. You should read the question each time, not just the answer, so that the context is clearer in all of them.

This is the best part. Get ready to laugh!

ZAR decides the winner of the round

CZAR decides which answer is the one he or she found most amusing. The player to whom the chosen card belongs reveals its identity and adds one point to his score.

Next round

Used white cards are discarded, and everyone draws new ones to get back to 10.

Next round. Next ZAR

CZAR pass the turn to the player on his right, counterclockwise, who becomes the new CZAR and the game is played again in the same way.

Filling the gap

Some black cards are not questions but a sentence with a fill in the blank to be filled in with the proposals of the players’ white cards.

2 cards

Some black cards require players to play two white cards instead of one. In this case, the order of the two white cards matters so the ZAR will have to shuffle the cards without separating or disordering each player’s pair of cards. You can use paper clips to group each pair.

Bet

If a player has two white cards with which he believes he can win the round, he has the possibility of playing both of them on account of one of the points obtained in another round. If he/she wins, he/she recovers the point and also adds the won point. If the player loses, the point he/she has gambled is won by the player who has won the round.

Alternative rules

In addition to the ordinary rules, which are the ones we are explaining in LOODENS, the game includes a list of rules that the authors call “alternative rules”, more or less crazy proposals that we leave you to discover for yourself if you get hold of the game.

End of game

The game ends when the number of rounds agreed at the beginning is completed.

And the winner is…

The player with the most points is the winner.