Game Info
Year
2024
Players
2-8
Age
12+
Playtime
15 min
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Description
Party game of escalating absurdity where players rank increasingly ridiculous scenarios
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Brains On Games Review at 0:00 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Cooperative and non-judgmental play that emphasizes group fun
- Easy to learn and teach, making it accessible to non-gamers
- Scales well to large groups and various ages; serves as a palate cleanser between heavier games
- Generates a lot of laughter and social interaction; suitable for casual gatherings
- Durable components and flexible deck (two-sided cards, 300 questions)
Cons
- Best experienced with a moderate-to-large group; less ideal for small two-player groups
- Possible repetition in questions if played with the same group repeatedly
- Content can veer into risqué or adult themes for some audiences
Thematic elements
- disturbing vs not disturbing ranking of answers; playful, lighthearted mascot concept
- In-home social gatherings; between heavier games during a game night or casual party
- Array
Comparison games
- Cards Against Humanity
- Apples to Apples
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Quotes (from this video)
- This is a light game a party game so it is very light super easy to learn and to teach
- You're working together and you win the game if you get three good cards you lose the game the game ends if you get three bad cards
- This is a silly game it's just ridiculous and you're laughing and trying to come up with funny ideas
- It's cooperative um I I do really like that everyone's work together here
- Perfect for people who aren't really Gamers
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Board Game Sanctuary Discussion at 17:54 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- fun to play in social groups
- accessible on first play
Cons
- reliant on players' perception of value and humor
Thematic elements
- competitive social interaction with top/bottom ranking tasks
- ranking party card game
- light, humorous social critique of rankings
Comparison games
- Top 10
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- group guessing — Organizers evaluate whether the sequence matches the intended answer
- Ordering — Players rank or order cards according to prompts
- ranking/ordering — Players rank or order cards according to prompts
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Quotes (from this video)
- you can teach in under one minute
- it's a fast easy tolearn two-player card game
- there's a whole interactive puzzle that's all contained in a single deck of cards
- it's a cooperative game with some interesting elements about what you think colors represent
- the base mode is super easy to win
- five Towers was that very card game for me
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Grant Lyon Top List at 0:22 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
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Quotes (from this video)
- If you're doing some last minute Christmas shopping, Target has a lot of board games on their shelves these days, but which ones are actually good?
- Telestrations is the best drawing game out there. I've had so many memorable nights with that game. It's one of the games that got me into games.
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Grant Lyon Review at 2:57 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Gives opportunity to use funny and creative brain
- Cooperative, win or lose together
- Good for relationships
- Challenging and impossible at times
- Great storytelling
- Fun to make things up and be creative
- Encourages teamwork
- Interesting strategy around number ordering
- Fun party game
Cons
- Can be too difficult or impossible to convey meaning
- Competitiveness can be nerve-wracking
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- Wavelength
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- cooperative play — Players work together to win or lose as a group.
- Prompt Interpretation — Players describe how they would handle a given prompt and indicate their position on a scale.
- ranking — Responses are ranked according to a spectrum or scale.
- Social Deduction — Players guess each other's position on a scale or ranking.
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Quotes (from this video)
- This was your idea?
- This is my big day and you're not going to ruin it for me with your terrible taste in fonts.
- What is wrong with wingings?
- My husband's a big planner. He planned our whole wedding. He was a total nightmare about it.
- And then I was like, 'What? [laughter] This was your idea?'
- It's like right in there. And I think about her like once a month.
- Is that a fun thing? [laughter]
- It gives you an opportunity to like use your funny and creative brain and I love when games sort of give you agency for that.
- This is a cooperative game. We will win or lose together as a group.
- Huge for relationships.
- This game also just should just be called How Gross Are You?
- What would you be willing to eat? Would you be willing to eat an apple out of the trash?
- This is really hard and I feel like I might have [ __ ] the game up. This is impossible because what I'm trying to convey is that it's a hat that you almost certainly will return.
- I love that you're the only one here that is like, but it could have value at some point.
- This is This is a hard I like how it's gone to me where I I haven't breathed this entire time holding my breath.
- I also own a lot of hats. I don't return them.
- I didn't know we weren't doing hats.
- It It says hat on the question. But what did I get? It could have been
- Machine gun fire and dude, is this an apartment? Shared walls.
- I'm blasting this [ __ ] and it's moving fast.
- I'm going to shoot right behind you.
- I also have a gun, but it's not a machine. It's just a pistol.
- I bring a gun from the bird thing and shoot.
- My other idea was uh It was going to be a parachute that works, but also it blares an audio tape of your comedy from your first year of stand.
- Every year I give my brother a chocolate gun for Christmas.
- I was like, 'Whichever end you eat first is sad for'
- This is a perfect one. If we don't win a kill.
- The smell of your parents having sex.
- It's the smell of pepper. It brings you right back there.
- I'm sometimes surprised that I'm a creative person because I was like the most uncreative kid.
- We're bad boys, Danny.
- I know what the extremes are, but this is where it gets murky again.
- It's the smell of your parents having sex. [laughter] So that's most pleasant.
- My thought was that it's heavier and it's going to work.
- I thought I thought Leah was gonna be a one or two.
- We had it in the bag.
- Damn it. [laughter]
- I hope she doesn't blow it. I hope she doesn't blow it.
- This is so much pressure. Oh [ __ ] I'm going to ruin this for everyone. [laughter]
- One is the worst. Least pleasant is the worst.
- That was textbook with the seven with this with the five seven eight n River.
- We win the game. [cheering and applause]
- That escalated quickly. I loved very fun. loved working together as a team.
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Totally Tabled Discussion at 16:44 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- engaging and creative when players participate
- cooperative and inclusive feel
- compact and easy to learn
Cons
- requires willingness to be imaginative
- may not work as well with less talkative groups
Thematic elements
- cooperative clue-derivation with order-based deduction
- Cooperative party game with clues and ranking
Comparison games
- Wavelength
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Cooperative problem solving — All players work together toward the correct ordering.
- Ordering — Main player orders everyone’s cards based on group clues.
- ordering and ranking — Main player orders everyone’s cards based on group clues.
- secret numbers and clue prompts — Players are dealt number cards and must clue others to determine their number.
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Quotes (from this video)
- three generations, a pre-teen, a teenager, and my parents who have no interest in board games at all.
- This was a hit.
- This is one of those rare games that I love that has the probably most hated mechanism of all time, which is one loser.
- You could play it anywhere. Could play it in the car. Could play it on the plane, right
- I typically hate trivia games, but this one does it right.
- This is a cooperative game.
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