Persist is a card game that helps women laugh at the ridiculous role assigned to them in the game of life. The double standards. Being told to smile by strangers. Mansplainers and manspreaders. Unsolicited questions about family planning. Not to mention all the ways women are doomed to fail at living up to culture’s standard of womanly virtue and grace. We know we sweat, we don’t glow.
Persist calls bullsh**. By asking women, their friends and allies to put all the cards out on the table—by being real, Persist invites women to laugh, learn from each other, connect meaningfully… and get up to fight another day.
How to Play Persist: Be the most persistent by earning three cards of the same life value (career, health, leisure, or relationships) to achieve a milestone. Collect three milestones to win.
Cards fall under six categories of gameplay: truth, would you rather, trivia, sharing, roadblocks, act it out, and the occasional wild card. Each category requires a different kind of action for the player to perform individually, with others, or even the whole group. Once played your cards may not be safe! Other players may steal your cards if they are going after the same values. This is where things get fun!
—description from the designer