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Terrible Candidates pits you and another candidate against each other in a fierce debate where you need to win over the Press. You’re given a selection of Policy cards which you then use as prompts for debate when the Topic card is revealed. You each take 30 seconds to win over the Media, who has the chance to interact with you (don’t like it? Yell out Fake news!)
The game ends when all players have debated the person sitting on either side of them. The player who won the most debates is the President. If multiple players have won the same number of debates, these winners then debate each other, until there is an ultimate debate, and the final vote is chosen
It’s a great way to start off a games night over a couple of drinks and a fantastic game to add to your collection of party games, due to the simple rules and easy replayability.
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- Terrible Candidates is a jury voted party game based on conducting outrageous political debates.
- The game plays three to eight players in twenty to forty minutes and is of light complexity.
References (from this video)
- Light complexity; easy to learn
- Short playtime (20-40 minutes)
- Structured rounds with voting to determine points
- Humorous, party-game atmosphere
- political discourse and policy crafting during debates
- political debate environment
- round-based debates with policy cards; players argue and finish sentences
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- finish sentence with policy card — Each participant finishes the sentence using a policy card from their hand.
- Limited Points — After two rounds, the player with the most points wins.
- media questions by inactive players — Inactive players representing the media may ask questions to the candidates.
- timed debates — Debaters have a set time (30 seconds) to argue their point.
- topic draw — A topic is drawn from the topic deck to frame the debate.
- two rounds to win — After two rounds, the player with the most points wins.
- two-player debates per round — Each round is a debate between two players.
- Voting — After debates, players vote to determine who wins the point.
- voting to score points — After debates, players vote to determine who wins the point.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- Terrible Candidates is a jury voted party game based on conducting outrageous political debates.
- The game plays three to eight players in twenty to forty minutes and is of light complexity.