The
next time you’re scheduling quality time with your friends get out of your
normal routine, and host a game night. You might be surprised how much fun
playing adult card games can be on a Saturday evening. This enjoyable pastime
with friends can get addictive. The key to a game night is to invite the right
guests (5-8 people total), serve up fun, and easy finger foods (or a potluck menu), and play games
that are both creative and clever. Depending on the game, it can be quite an
eye-opener in learning new information about your friends. Here are unique
adult games for your game night (that no one will soon forget):
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That's What She
Said- It's a great choice
for parties with larger groups. It’s fast-paced, designed for four or more
people, can be adjusted to suit your time-frame, and even has expansions to keep things fresh and increase the number of players. This
game has 400 phrase cards and 58 setup cards. The chosen judge throws down a
set-up card, and everyone plays their best phrase. The winner is entirely
dependent on the judge's sense of humor.
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Speak Out-This is like Win,
Lose, or Draw, but with your mouth. Hear me out: Grab a group of friends, pop
in a mouthpiece, and try to say silly phrases to your teammates (e.g.,
"slow down, you careless clown!"). If they can understand you through
both the mouthpiece and your
incessant laughter – your team earns a point. This is good, goofy fun you can have with everyone, from your
friends to your family. You'll look ridiculous, but that's the fun.
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What Do You Meme?
When words simply aren't enough, memes step in
to convey the absurd specificities of life. This adult card game is comprised
of two different decks — a photo deck and a caption deck. With each turn,
everyone picks a caption card from their hand to match the photo card drawn by
the judge. The judge determines which meme is the funniest, and the game
continues rotating judges as long as everybody wants. "We literally
couldn’t stop playing and didn’t end up quitting until we had exhausted every
single meme in the stack, 2.5 hours later," says one reviewer. "There
were many times the judge couldn’t finish reading a card because we couldn’t
breathe from laughing so hard! Definitely recommend." (I've personally played this game with a group of friends. It was entertaining and hilarious.)
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Joking Hazard-The only true hazard
you're going to run up against with this game is how long you'll want to keep
playing it. In Joking Hazard, you compete along with the rest of your party to finish
truly awful comics and see who can one-up the other. Each box comes with 360
cards. Unlike other card games, the rules for this are pretty flexible, and for
a reason. With this game, you have total creative control with how the story
progresses. Since each comic is designed to work as a small story, you're
really able to control the flow of the game as you go.
"The cards are
so well written and balanced that nearly any combination results in beyond
colorfully off beat hilarity," wrote one reviewer. Another raved, "A
game night headliner ... I picked this up because I followed the comic and the
animated internet cartoon for years now. I don't think I had laughed as hard
during a board game before."
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Superfight-If you’ve got a
friend group or family members that just love to debate, direct their energy
and rage into something useless and harmless. Superfight is a simple game for players of all levels where the
cards are split into two categories: characters, and powers and weaknesses.
When the two are
combined, guests need to argue until the end about which one would win in a fight.
This game’s ideal for up to about ten people, and reviewers say it’s filled
with silliness, yelling, laughing, logic, and emotion, and the better you and
your friends are at thinking outside of the box, the more ingenious this game
gets.
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If you take yourself way too seriously, go to
another game. Bad People is a party game for those who can take the cold, hard
truth about what their friends really think of them. Gather up three to 10
players, take turns reading aloud a question card, and then vote on who best
fits the dubious descriptor.
Question cards can
range from "Who is most likely to become the leader of a prison
gang?" to "Who will be the most difficult old person to be
around?" Trust us — it won't take long for your group to stop
being nice, and start getting real.
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There's nothing like a few rounds of Never
Have I Ever to kick a game night up another notch. Players take turns reading
the red "direction" cards out loud, which dictate if they or other
players have to answer a blue "play" card. Players collect the blue
cards if the statement on it is true to them. The first player to reach 10 blue
cards wins
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In
the regular Taboo game, players draw cards and must describe their chosen word
or phrase for others to guess, without using its most common
descriptors. The "Midnight" edition of this game uses sillier
words and more double-entendres, but is otherwise exactly the same! Try as
hard as you might to describe the phrase "dad bod" without using the
words "belly" or "gut."
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The Voting Game is a true means of testing
friendships. See how well you know each other, or at least what it is you
assume about each other, in this card game that asks participants to vote on
"most likely" candidates for a number of scenarios. We're sure you'll
be revealing all sorts of stories and secrets to one another by the end of the
night.
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Are you ready to land the job of your dreams? FunEmployed
equips you with three random resume qualifications, so you can make your case
to land coveted jobs like "Professional Cuddler," "Celebrity
Impersonator," and "Pirate." The more players you have, the
more potential job candidates will be vying for the positions — and the more
hilarity will ensue.
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One
person draws a black card with a fill-in-the-blank phrase, and the other
players pick a white card from their hands that completes the sentence while
also appealing to the judge's twisted sense of humor. The winner collects the
cards from the rounds that they win. You won't know where all the time went,
but you'll love every minute of it.
“Games give you a chance to excel, and if
you're playing in good company you don't even mind if you lose because you had
the enjoyment of the company during the course of the game.” (Gary Gygax)[i]
[i] Sources used:
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“10 Best Adult Party Games That'll Make Any Game
Night” By Maria
Cassano
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“Host A Fun Grown Up Game Night” Alison Deyette
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“How to Host a Grown-Up Game Night for the
Books” by Alina Gonzalez
“These Super Fun Party Games for Adults Are Just the Right Amount of Raunchy”
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This post is dedicated to tim and christa andreotti who brought the joy of game night back into the life of my wife and me. thank you.
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