TL;DR Cards Against Humanity is a party game where players use white cards to fill in the blanks on black cards, aiming for the funniest or most outrageous combination. The game is primarily played with physical cards, but there are online versions available.
Game Setup and Rules
Cards Against Humanity is played with a deck of cards that includes both black and white cards. Each round, one player (the "Card Czar") draws a black card, which contains a question or fill-in-the-blank statement. The other players then choose one of their white cards to complete the sentence or answer the question. The Card Czar reads all the submissions aloud and chooses the funniest or most fitting response as the winner [1:1]
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Physical vs. Online Versions
While Cards Against Humanity is traditionally a physical card game, there are unofficial online versions available. Websites like "Pretend You're Xyzzy" offer a digital adaptation of the game, allowing players to join virtual rooms and play remotely [1:1]
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Game Dynamics and Strategy
The humor in Cards Against Humanity often revolves around irreverence and dark comedy. Players should be prepared for potentially offensive content and aim to match the tone of the group they're playing with [2:2]
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Expansion Packs and Variations
There are numerous expansion packs available that add new themes and cards to the game. These include themed packs such as the Art Pack, Weed Pack, and Period Pack, among others [4:2]. Some players enjoy collecting these expansions to keep the game fresh and varied. Additionally, there are humorous Easter eggs hidden within some of the packaging, adding an extra layer of fun
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Alternative Party Games
For those looking for similar party games, options include Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza, Quiplash, Dixit, and Bad People. These games also focus on humor and social interaction, offering different mechanics and themes from Cards Against Humanity [5:1]
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I can't find it on steam. I can't find it on the web. Am I stiupid? Can anyone help me?
Cards against humanity is a card game. So you’ll have to buy a pack online and play irl.
It's a physical card game, but there is a great web version of it here:
https://pyx-1.pretendyoure.xyz/zy/game.jsp
A mobile app is also available.
It's a card game usually played offline.
At home?
Cards Against Humanity is played with physical cards that come in a box.
There's an entirely unofficial (and occasionally somewhat janky) web adaptation available at https://pyx-1.pretendyoure.xyz/zy/ though.
So for context, I was out having a small birthday celebration with my friends and one of them brought Cards Against Humanity, When we were playing, One of them played the black card saying: "What is there a ton of in Heaven?" (For the record i know that a conscience is optional when playing a game as messed up as this but i still felt like an absolute POS rn),
And me with the perfect card in my deck and morbid and dark humor started cackling uncontrollably to which my friends looked bewildered as they never seen me laugh like that before.
I played my card which said:
"The Jews"
My friends laughed but they stopped when they reminded me of the Movie we watched that was about the Holocaust and it became silent, after a few seconds we moved onto the next round and didn't talk about it. So yeah...
TL;DR Played a round of a morally ambiguous card game and laughed like a maniac when i had the perfect card for the right moment to which i was reminded of a movie that was about the Holocaust
Edit: For those of you asking for the movie, It was "The Boy in striped pajamas".
Well played, OP. All's fair in CAH.
Nah, Jews are off limits. It's cards against humanity
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pats shoulder
...there there.
That's tame in my experience.
Whoever raised that point about the movie gets off on weird shit. The whole point of this game is irreverence. Why sour the mood with your finger wagging reminders?
A few you missed out on:
The significant other who's humor doesn't fit the group and sulks when they loses every round.
Everyone's cards sucking so bad they lose to Rando.
"I'm just burning a card this round."
Having the perfect card for the black card from the previous commenter's round.
Knowing every card by now, but refusing to give the company more money.
That one friend that buys CAH knockoffs that are even less fun.
Your card is ridiculously clever but they completely ignore it for the most random/lewd pick possible.
That’s the problem with the game. The winner is usually the person with the funniest white card, not usually the person who picks the best card for the black card.
Plenty of the white cards are just funny on their own and would win when used in most templates.
Played a few rounds with my 5 brothers once. I can't remember the question but all their answers were stupid and lewd except for one guy who put down "Tom Cruise" fit really well, and which had me laughing so hard that he won.
Especially if everyone in the group knows each other well. The game eventually became "who has the card that we all know makes this guy laugh?"
For me, it was Party Mexicans.
“The answer is always cum” is what I say haha. It’s why I hate the game, it always just turns into “whoever got the raunchy card”
Some cards are just OP, eg: “African children” always guarantees you a round win
The game is funny for the first like 20 minutes and for the rest of eternity it is never funny again
I think it really depends on who you play with. With close friends its still a lot of fun to be because you start getting inside jokes and really leaning into individual humor
If only I still had close friends
This. We used to go to our friends' house once a month for game nights and CAH never got old. We all know each other so well.
The game has equivalents in a lot of languages. In my language it's "Blanc manger coco". I didn't know it was so popular in the USA, it's not nearly as popular here.
There are also translations in my language. The problem is that you would have to change the grammar on the black/white/both cards on the fly while reading it. It's just easier to play in English.
Anybody play this? Anyone interested in playing it? I don't have the game myself but I would buy it if nobody has it.
The more the merrier. Thinking BYOB. Open to suggestions/criticisms.
I have a set and several expansion packs I'm looking to offload, if anyone wants to have their own set.
mememe
This is what I have that I can remember (the cards at home, I'm not):
Starter Pack
Art Pack
Weed Pack
Period Pack
Red Pack
Green Pack
Food Pack
Jew Pack (there also might be a Hanukah pack, but I'm not 100% sure)
Several different Pax East exclusive packs
Retail Product
Fantasy Pack
Sci-fi Pack
Geek Pack
Design Pack
Bigger Blacker Box
Crabs Adjust Humidity
I'd be willing to let this go for $50
I would also like a pack if possible :)
Can I piggyback on this post? I got an unopened box of Gloomhaven that I still need to play.
Do you know how to play?
Nope.
I own it and would be down to play
Epic
Fun fact: if you take the lid off the box and feel carefully, there’s a seam you can open with a hilarious secret card in there. I won’t tell you what it is, cause you likely wouldn’t believe me if I said it and I don’t want to spoil the laughs.
I think that's just in the super long box they sell you to hold your expansions in one place, but that could have changed
Yes please.
Kinda cards - chicken vs hotdog
Quiplash
Dixit
Bad People
Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza
You don’t discard the black cards, you keep them as points
I’d have two black card piles. But it’s usually because we have a large group and the distance is annoying to reach over. But it is also because it’s nice if you haven’t shuffled them so well that it’s not only picking off the top but also from where you cut the pile into two.
Not only are they points, I always let players wager a won black card to play an additional white card.
You can use them to get a new hand of cards too
I will be using awesome point chips instead of keeping the black cards.
I can dig it for smaller groups. I typically play with a group of 8-12 and all expansions, so might need more than one
um… considering the titles are on the bottom once you start putting the cards it’ll still look just like a normal pile of cards. This is fixable if you put the titles top/bottom/side etc. And you don’t “dispose” of black cards - every player collects those as points. Otherwise it’s cool idea.
I will be using awesome point chips as points instead of the black Cards
Poker chips or something else?
Where'd you find this? Did you make it? It's awesome.
I got it made by some seller on Etsy.
where can I find this bruh?
Cards Against Humanity was first released in 2009 as a printable game, then the card edition was released in 2011. above are some examples of the cards in the UK edition.
i'm not showing this to justify anything, but trying to help paint a picture of what common dark/gross humour and the wild worldwide web was like back then.
Joking Hazard is also an epic game with humor that can be extreme. Less specific than CAH fs though
And Utter Nonsense!! Although all my friends are too PC to play because it involves doing accents/voices and it /might/ be racist to do an accent. I disagree but ¯\(ツ)/¯
yes! i have that game too - and Exploding Kittens.
I once brought Exploding Kittens to a Mormon white elephant Christmas party. Do you think that was a good idea? I've never actually played it lmao
exploding kittens?!? 😨 ... only ever played it on fb or smt stupid like that. Is it good?
I remember the jerking off into a pool filled with children's tears card winning many rounds.
Some cards were just auto-wins
I had my time in the limelight when I had the ultimate combo of "I had my best life with "human meat" only to get it ruined by "horse meat" "
A lot of Gen Z people would enjoy this game too. It's only these compulsively online weirdos who cry about everything and don't have the life experience to understand how and how much people and culture change over time. We have given them too much power.
Couldn't agree more.
I work in a pretty progressive, female dominated field and honestly some of the jokes people make are dark as hell. The kind of stuff that would definitely get huge backlash if it was ever posted online. It really shows the disconnect between online discourse and real life behaviour. People in the real world just are not nearly as uptight as the performative culture you see online.
Absolutely. Anyone who has worked around blue-collar people will hear worse than anything Ethan has said and posted on a weekly basis (for worse, frankly). Most of the world isn't like this, just these compulsively online people who make their internet feuds their identity.
Be careful, Piker's Puppets would use your sentences as proof that Ethan is bigoted/degenerate
hey guys! i’ve never ever played like ANY card games b4 but hope to get into this!!! let me know any tips to get into this game!! :) thanks!
sequencing is really important
always* choose an action that have the most impact on the board (like attacking on playing a removal for example)
[you can also watch videos on youtube explaining what is good and why its good] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=634G-J0barI&ab_channel=VeiledShot%7CStarWarsUnlimited)
Welcome! SWU was my first TCG as well and it's a lot of fun. The back and forth action phase makes it feel a lot more strategic and less card spammy than other games. And the resource system gives it a rather unique way to shape your hand and develop your strategy.
In terms of gameplay, one bit piece of advice is I'd recommend reading this article. https://thefifthtrooper.com/whos-the-beatdown-star-wars-unlimited-edition/ It's a SWU updated version of a long time MTG staple of figuring out who is "the beat down" and who is "the control". Usually "the beat down" is the person who is trying to hit the base as much as possible, and "the control" is the person trying to maintain the board state and get to late game to win with stronger values units. For the starter decks, I would consider Luke to be "the beat down" and Vader "the control". Once you get your hands on the decks it'll make a lot more sense.
Second piece of advice is to have fun! TCGs can be a little intimidating and competitive sometimes. But as long as you're enjoying yourself that is all that matters.
Third piece of advice is for if you decide you enjoy the game and want to invest a little more. Packs are fun to open. I love packs. The new set just came out and packs aren't that hard to come by. But they are also random and can be punishing because of that. What I would recommend is taking a look at www.swudb.com and checking out the deck lists that people post on their. Some of them can be a little pricey, so for beginners I would take a look at Sabine, Luke, and Vader for some budget options. And then buy singles! That's the best way to get cards that you want and to make a deck that you think you'll enjoy. But realistically, you can buy packs, get cards, and make a deck that you'll enjoy because so many of the cards are a lot of fun to play with.
Good luck and have fun with your games!
Pro tip: If you’re ever going to lose, just win instead👍
You can do that?
I wish someone had given me this advice way sooner.
I've been doing this wrong...
Join the dark side.
As a palp myself. I agree. DO IT.
Agreed. Rebel scum.
First off I would recommend to sleeve both decks. Besides protecting the cards, it makes shuffling them much easier.
Read the quick rules and cards carefully - the game is very beginner friendly, but if you never played a TCG or card game in general before, it can be rough at first.
Learn the game with a friend, it's way more fun this way.
If you like the game, look up some decks at SWUDB.com and try them on forcetable. It's a deck testing tool against an AI.
Or you can play against other players on karabast.net
If you like the game, look up if there are any gamestores near you that provide local weekly play. It's a very community driven game.
Have fun!
I’ve looked everywhere and can’t find any place to download or play it, would anyone know?
Cards Against Humanity Labs
evil apples is the same premise, and it’s free, if that’s what ur looking for !
thank you for sharing!
Multiple listed in the sidebar
bad cards is basically cards against humanity
Being stuck at home sucks. Super sucks. I've been working from home for a month and I've been going stir crazy for a while now. My wife is a nurse working night shift, and we've got no kids, so my time is split between stress and boredom.
Cards Against Humanity seems like the perfect game for this. You don't need a board. You just need cards and a few morally bereft friends. I looked for an online option, but didn't find anything that worked very well or felt as good as playing in real life. So...
...https://allbad.cards was born. All Bad Cards is a Cards Against Humanity clone, but more than that, it's a Cards Against Humanity experience clone. You can play this game the way you play at home. In fact, you can play it at home just like you normally would, if you like. All you need is your phone. It feels the same as being there with your buddies, even if you are video chatting with friends all over the country!
Let me explain. When you play Cards Against Humanity, your Card Czar reads the black card before you get to see it, so you can hear it aloud first. It's so much funnier than when everyone just sits there reading the black card silently. My site encourages you to play this way.
Similarly, when everyone has played their white cards, your Card Czar reads them one-by-one, and each card reveal shows up on everyone's device at the same time. Slow reveals like this make Cards Against Humanity the great game that it is. You have the option to play however you like, but this experience is tailored to feel just as good as a real game of Cards Against Humanity.
I've been testing it with friends and family, and I think we've hit the sweet spot. The cards look like cards. The fun is just as real. You play the way you always have!
I like to build sites that stay running under their own power, because people like them. My philosophy is that fans of a site will keep it running if it's good enough to stay running. That is why the site runs using money from Patreon.
Since the site is brand new, it's running using my personal funds for now, and I'll keep that up for this whole COVID-19 thing if I can. If you like the site and want to support it, then great! If not, play for free with your friends! It's important to connect with people during this whole social-distancing thing. That's what this project is about.
Also, the Cards Against Humanity license prevents charging for the game. I never intended to do that anyway, but to me it doesn't sound like that license prevents ads. But ads suck and I don't want to be that guy, so... no ads. If the site is good, it stays. End of story.
More stuff:
Play anywhere. Honestly, I'd say it's better on a phone. The ideal setup? A Zoom call with friends on a laptop, and an All Bad Cards game on your phone.
No accounts are required to play. The only tracking is Google Analytics to measure traffic. No IP tracking, no email, no passwords, nothing. All sessions are temporary.
Sourced from the community-curated list of cards from /r/cardsagainsthumanity, this set includes all of the cards released in North America from every official set. It does not include third-party or commercial sets.
Additionally, I have spent time removing duplicate cards to provide the best possible experience.
TBH this is a list of one right now, but I created a new feature. It's called My Cards Suck. Here's the idea. Someone plays a black card. You need to play a white card. Uh oh... all your cards suck. You just want new cards. Time to hit the My Cards Suck button! Once every 5 rounds, you can hit this button, and you'll get a new set of white cards. But better still, the game will choose a random card from your hand to play that round, so you still might win. Maybe the computer is funnier than you. Maybe you'll humiliate yourself. TEST FATE.
I hope this helps you cope while you're stuck at home. Please enjoy the game and send me any feedback you have. Thank you!
I can't be the only one who thinks that Cards Against Humanity is an absolutely awful game if not played with the right set of people/alchohol/drugs. How do you guys play it? Group video call on desktop + play on mobile? Seems like the worst kind of game to emulate in this medium - surely there are better games for this.
Honestly me and my friends have been playing this consistently throughout almost 4 week quarantine and the comedy kills every time. It's a good laugh if you have friends both with morbid af humour and those who will be disgusted. No alcohol or drugs involved. We play on pc over a voice call.
We played a few weeks ago on playingcards.io on an ipad, and facetime with a big group of friends on a laptop. Worked really well. However, this implementation is much better, and I love that it encourages everyone to actually read the cards.
How does this compare to Pretend You're Xyzzy?
I think overall, it's much simpler. PYX has a lot of options - you can password protect games, you can create public games and have spectators, you have chat, you can choose various settings (which expansions are included, what the winning score is, etc). As a result, it is VERY flexible but also can be a little overwhelming and hard to use, and isn't mobile friendly. It's probably the power-user version of this game, which is great! That was not my goal.
My goal was to create something very easy. All you have to do to start a game is pick a nickname and invite people, and you're ready. It works on any device so you can easily just grab your phone and play. There are no public games (every game has a generated ID, so you have to get a link from someone to join their game). No spectating, no chat. Just simple gameplay, with all of the official cards.
Modern interface + optimized for mobile is the big differentiator for me.
The only thing missing i would love to have are custom decks from CardCast, which is really awesome if you played a lot of the original cards.
With Azala and Pretend You're Xyzzy already existing, was another CAH site necessary? How do you plan to stand out from the other existing ones and convince people to use yours? And what are your plans for marketing (aside from this post), as Xyz is a lot more well-known and will get use if people don't know new alternatives exist?
Azala currently has a 400+ game waitlist. Xyzzy doesn't work on mobile very well. I think there's a crowd out there that wants to sit on their couch with their phone and play - probably the majority of people who play the game today.
I don't plan on doing marketing - I think the site will gain traction if it's compelling, and if it's not, there's no reason to keep it going. If the demand isn't there, I see no reason to push this on people. I made it because I wanted to casually play with my friends, without jumping through hoops, and I didn't really see that need being met. I want to say "hey, let's jump on a call. Here's a link for your phone." and that's it :)
This.
We have Evil Apples for our mobile phones, but I really prefer my desktop. Esp if we are doing a video chat.
I do have a Feature Request, will probably DM in a bit after I show my wife the site. (... Giggity?) But in short, could you have an option to open the "table" in a separate tab? I.E. Lets say I am Video Chatting with my friends, but *also* want to stream the game on Twitch or Discord or something. Obviously I don't want MY hand to show, but if the "Table" could show the Black Card, who the judge is, and then during judging have all the white cards showing so the audience can see, that would be AWESOME. Sort of like how JackBox does their stuff, I guess.
It's a chromecast app with a huge custom card database. Xyzzy and other cah apps pull custom card sets from it.
I've been playing PXY a lot on discord video calls, and it's awful on mobile, hah. Super stoked to give this a go tonight.
Are you planning to open source your implementation?
Played an hour and a half with some folks, great time! Here's feedback collected from the first night. Forgive the volume of feedback here, figured the more the merrier!
- There's no display of the winning card picked by the card czar for the other players. It'd be great to have some sort of display of the winning card(s) for all the players to see. I get that its supposed to be said aloud, but the nature of online audio conversations and general banter means that about a third of the time, someone had to say "wait who won?"
- There's no way to see the score of the game during the game, only at the end-of-round phase (it seems?). The player list menu could show the current score, ideally.
- Does the game ever end? We got to 10 points with 5 players and kinda just bailed, it'd be ideal to either have a set limit or to let the host pick beforehand (generally, we play to 6 in our group)
- I'd love to be able to throw out cards more often than every 5 rounds, as despite the best effort to remove duplicates, we both A) saw the same card _three times tonight_ and also saw a couple of cards that were but one word away from each other.
- We had cards that referenced things most the group didn't know about (PAX or random german 1940's movie stars) and it kind a blew the round for most of the group. This happened with black cards too. It'd be nice to allow a couple of "pick new black card" actions per round: its not really fun when nobody understands the black card, and a simple "pick new black" would solve the problem (after all, its CaH, its just for fun anyways)
- Frankly, with _all_ the cards ever in this list, we'd love to be able to throw out more cards per round, as well as configure card hand size. We ended up with about 20% of our cards being some kinda riff on "vagina" (haha, sex, right?!?) and it kinda stopped being funny after the first few cards...
- The tooltip for discarding your hand says you forfeit the round, but that's not true.
- The card czar often forgot to advance the game after picking a winner, would be ideal to have a 5-10 second timer to auto-advance the game after a winning white card(s) was chose.
- There was a card about something like "Why do my burbs smell bad because of ____", pretty sure that's a typo of "burp"?
- The cards are all the same size, but it kinda feels like thats a needless amount of skeuomorphism here since a lot of the cards are one line. Makes for a lot of scrolling, but the skeuomorphism isn't consistent since during multi-card black cards the cards' text is listed on a single card with a hr. Perhaps the cards should fit-to-line-length instead of fixed size?
- It'd be nice to throw some negative letter spacing on a span wrapping the multi-underscore blanks since it renders with space between each underscore. It'd be a better effect if it looks like one long underline.
- We had a card like "You want the ____? You can't handle the ___ [SAME CARD AS BEFORE]__" which was pretty unclear (though super funny)
- We had a player drop and rejoin and he ended up as a whole new player, despite having the same name. Perhaps something around treating the same name+game-id combo as some sort of uniqueness token could solve that?
- The text of who's still picking is nice, but i could see some sort of multi-step diagramatic UI element makking this much more clear, like a stepper
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