Cards Against Humanity
You know how, when you play Apples to Apples, the goal quickly changes from "Play the most correct combo" to "Play the funniest combo", and then to "Play the most terrifyingly offensive combo"? Like, someone plays "Crispy" or some shit, and you play "Anne Frank"? That's Cards Against Humanity. It's specifically set up to be as offensive as possible, like a good episode of South Park, but pulls it off well enough to come across as hilarious, instead of morbid.
A great game to play with college dorm-mates, erudite friends, polite society, your grandmother, and anyone else over the age of 18. You will never look and anyone you play with the same way again.
There is a website that lets you play a clone of Cards Against Humanity over the internet, for fun times on Vent or Skype. It comes with several genre-based Card Packs, in case you play amongst furries or /v/irgins.
Editions and Expansions
The base game currently comes with 460 white cards and 90 black cards. If that's not enough for you, there's been several official expansions.
- The First Expansion: 100 cards of random bullshit.
- The Second Expansion: 100 cards of more random bullshit.
- The Third Expansion: 100 cards of more random bullshit.
- The Fourth Expansion: 100 cards of more random bullshit.
- The Fifth Expansion: 100 cards of more random bullshit.
- The Sixth Expansion: 100 cards of more random bullshit.
- The Box Expansion: 20 cards of random bullshit, and comes with the Bigger, Blacker Box, a carrying box to fit the game and all expansions. The name is a play on the "Big Black Cock" and "Bigger Blacker Cock" cards from the main game.
- The 90's Pack: 30 cards of 90's kid nostalgia bullshit
- The Science Pack 30 cards of science bullshit
- The Holiday Pack (2012, 2013, 2014): 30 cards each of holiday bullshit
In addition, the core game set has been released in two special editions:
- The Black Friday Sale Edition: Everything about the set is exactly the same, but it was only available for order on Black Friday, 2013. It cost 5$ more. Despite this, or more likely, because of this, it not only stayed a best seller on Amazon, but sales went up.
- Total Bullshit Edition: For Black Friday, 2014, the regular game and all expansions were removed from the store, and replace with this. In it you get no cards. Just an actual box of real bull shit, from a real bull's digestive system. It sold over 30,000 "copies" in one day.
License
Unique for a best selling card game, CaH is released under Creative Commons (CC) BY-NC-SA, meaning it's open for anybody to copy and share, as long as you attribute properly and don't make money off of it. The original set, and generally most of the expansions are provided online in .pdf form for you to print on your own.
Custom Cards
Since the cards in Cards Against Humanity are just black and white, it's dead-simple to make custom cards if you can print on cardstock. Mix and match for fun! If you printed your own copy from the .pdf, there are blank cards on the template you can edit and print to match the rest of your collection. Thanks to the licence above, the custom sets below are perfectly valid expansions to the base game.
| Card Games | |
|---|---|
| Collectible Card Games: |
Call of Cthulhu - Cardfight!! Vanguard - Fire Emblem Cipher Force of Will - Jyhad - Magi-Nation Duel - Magic: The Gathering Netrunner - Pokémon - Star Wars: Destiny CCG (Dead) - Yu-Gi-Oh |
| Other Card Games: |
1000 Blank White Cards - 7th Sea - Apples to Apples - Bang! Cards Against Humanity - Coup - Decktet - Dominion - Dvorak F.A.T.A.L. - Keyforge - Mafia - Mag Blast - Mao - Munchkin Race for the Galaxy - Sentinels of the Multiverse - Tanto Cuore |
| Traditional Card Games: |
Bridge - Cribbage - Mahjong - Solitaire/Patience - Poker - Rummy - Tarot |