Apples to Apples - A Party game of crazy combinations

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Apples to Apples - Nerdy, Exciting card game

Apples to Apples is a card game where the goal is to make combination. In your hand, you hold several cards with various nouns on them. These include "Richard Nixon", "The Middle Ages", "Space", "My First Kiss", and others. Anything and everything is on these cards. Then, each round, a different player flips over an adjective card.

This is where the fun begins, each other player plays one of their nouns face down, and the player who originally flipped the adjective gets to judge which one is the best. The judging has no rules, and jockeying for the win is common. Opposites, exact matches, randomness are all allowed and all will win at different times.

There's lots of laughs and lots of fun in Apples to Apples.

A short review of Apples to Apples 

No Strategy, No Tactics, just lots of Silliness

Apples to Apples is not a game like Monopoly, or Charades, or Settlers of Catan. The competition stays very light through the game, and even when somebody pulls ahead and wins it, everybody had fun.

It's a great game for getting to know new friends, and people can pick up the game very quickly.

One problem my group of friends found with it is that some of the answers start getting to predictable. The "play something to be funny" impulse is strong, and judges can either encourage or discourage that.

This is much more of a social game than any other game I've written about so far, but you owe yourself to pick it up for those nights you don't want to fight tooth and nail in a strategy game, and instead want to sit back a bit and just have a few laughs.

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Mark-Nehs wrote...

Great game. We get together a few times a year with a group of friends and we almost always bring out Apples to Apples.

ReplyPosted December 19, 2008