No Thanks! - My family’s favorite noisy card game, we play with any player count and get big chants going tempting people to push their luck. Even non-gamers get intrigued by the clever strategic options. Point Salad - Beats Sushi Go for ease of learning and opportunities to be creative. Second Chance - The best excuse to doodle, barely a game but just enough to give everyone a shared activity without taking attention away from creative drawing and conversation. The Mind - I’ve played this with 7 or 8 people at once as well as with 2, and it always gets people bonding and paying attention to one another. Wavelength - My favorite party game, much like Apples to Apples or Cards Against Humanity in that it is basically a conversation starter, but this one actually generates interesting, substantial, revealing, and hilarious conversations every time.Ī Fake Artist Goes To New York - To me, a much more fun and engaging replacement for Telestrations that creates really memorable moments. Maybe not a “casual” game but there’s so much depth packed into so few rules, I had to mention it. He was stunned (and laughing out loud) when I recently confessed that I was only pretending to count money under the table when deciding to outbid him (I had nothing but wanted him to make think the decision was really tough).Īlso, I just kind of glanced over the fact that when things aren’t going your way there are low probability but damn exciting strategies to just rank everyone much worse than you.ġ0/10 and just sublime. I have way more wins than he does because he so frequently overlooks the bluffing and manipulation part. “Ok that row is worth Large points to me while that row is with Small points to me but since he is invested heavily in it, I could try and tank it and give him Extra Large negative points” Most of the information is public and I play with a mathematician who likes to really crunch number while I never do anything of the sort and just go with my gut based of a rough sizing system. Gouging money out of your desperate friend makes you feel clever and the closed economy in the game add this extra level of madness that I just adore. Sometimes I finish a game and am just exhausted but in the best possible way. The rules are extremely light and easy to teach, the game takes around 40 mins to play with 3-4 players and yet so often, the experience feels like some epic rollercoaster full of tension and hilarity. It is brutally cutthroat and yet somehow never feels unfair.
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