Game time with Guide Dog Aunt

[azurelunatic]

Guide Dog Aunt threw a game night on Saturday. It took me a little longer to get ready than I'd hoped, but I did get over there. There was a Cards Against Humanity game in progress, and I was dealt in.

My aunt is all about the house rules that say that the purpose of the game is to have fun, so there were a few un-fun cards quietly put in with the used cards. Another common house rule is that if you don't know what it is (or don't admit to knowing what it is) you don't have to play it. Some people chose to ask things like "Who's Michael Bay? What's 'queefing'?" and many people were enlightened. "I didn't know there was a word for that!"

"What's Harry Potter erotica?"
"Well, when someone loves the Harry Potter books a lot, and writes little stories..."
"Oh! ... How do you know these things?"

One of the people who was new to the game was enticed in to play just one round, for the second go. By the second time we had got around the table, she was gleefully choosing a slightly weaker card, out of kindness to the current czar.

I won one hand by pairing "In this world there is nothing certain but death and ____" with "Soup that is too hot." Guide Dog Aunt agreed mightily.


It came time to cease partying, and everybody went home. I stuck around to help clean up all the fun, and with three people working at it, it was fairly quick. I caught up with my aunt, and then went home and went to bed.

Comments

[silveradept]

That sounds like a fun time was had by all, including getting someone new to have fun with the game.

[azurelunatic]

It was lovely fun.

[laurajv]

yeah, our set of Cards Against Humanity has had a great many racist and sexist cards pruned out. :/

[azurelunatic]

There are a lot. :\

I have learned that https://www.cardcastgame.com/ will offer to print custom cards in the same size as existing decks, although they will not print cards that are in existing Cards Against Humanity decks.

[sithjawa]

I don't think I've ever played in a game that hasn't had some pruning, *or* a game that doesn't have the house rule about free discards of stuff you wouldn't be willing to play. Think that rule is pretty standard at this point.

[sithjawa]

(the one black card, at least in the self-print PDF, that I particularly object to is "Anthropologists have discovered...who worship ___", which I think I'd fix by making it something like "In the new Hollywood sci-fi blockbuster, the male lead is rescued by ..." so it's more about mocking the trope.)