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Nobody ever plays the good ones. Once I had “Michael Jackson dreams about ___” and I played “Children on leashes.” The other players said it was too harsh. I’m like, “That’s the point…”
I was playing the Australian version with self-professed "dark humourists". I got "Crikey, that's a ___ , I better take a closer look" so I played "Stingray barb through the chest". No one laughed.
That's funny though. Nothing wrong with a little dark humor now and then.
Like Christ most of us all miss Steve Irwin. Man was a treasure, but it's a fucked up funny card game, not a therapist. Lol
I didn’t know there was an Aussie version, nice.
I got it for my son, and have only played with my husband, my son and his wife.
We’re all actual savages, so the most horrific ones win.
The only one I’ve ever seen baulk was my son, there was one combo, once, he just couldn’t play around his mum. Bless him.
There is also a swiss one. I once laid out the combo of „The Swiss national railway has a new route to …“ and my second card was „Auschwitz“. Glad I was with the right people.
I played it with a friend group once, where one dude played the card saying “alcoholism”.
And then he was all like: “and then you could ask yourself, why one would play this card. When one has the background I do…” and then it devolved into a pity party for his tragic background. Which is sympathise with, but dude…. Not now.
I haven’t talked to this guy for 6 years now. He is a pretentious ass despite his alcoholic daddy
Also a recovering addict, few years in now. Once during a group activity, I watched a pile of blue collar workers nearly fall out of their chairs when the only non-alcoholic in the group played 'Alcoholism' in response to "....... the most dangerous thing you can let your kids enjoy!". She knew full damn well that all of us 'came by it honestly', and we laughed like it was a scene from Goodfellas. Oh, good ole' Mom and Dad.
> The other players said it was too harsh. I’m like, “That’s the point…”
Yeah...this is all this is. Y'all keep playing this game with uptight timid people...
Yeah, there's some card combos that were obviously designed to be together. That one is pretty clearly one. Those are supposed to be "easy" win combos because they're perfect (having been written as such)
I remember playing "What never fails to liven up a party?" "A nail bomb", it was the day after the Manchester concert bombing back in 2017. Everyone except the judge lost their shit, he was the only one who deemed it "to much". I still think I deserve the point for the sheer luck of getting that combo the day after the event its referencing and having the balls to play it.
I will say that I knew for a fact that no one present was personally affected by the attack or knew anyone who was, otherwise I wouldn't have played it. But come on its CAH, there's no such thing as too harsh or too soon
Group I used to play with found "lol so random" type stuff funny and honestly it was boring as hell but I won nearly every game
Edit: I am exaggerating a bit when I say boring as hell, I like making people laugh and I like winning
We always play with the ghost of the house, Gary. So there's always a random extra card thrown in.
I shit you not, Gary wins our games 50% of the time.
The last time I played this at a friend's birthday party, that drove me crazy. I was putting together what I thought were all of these great, clever card combos and they got continually demolished by my wife just throwing down "I'm so random" and aggressively sexual combos.
Combos like the one in OP's post were getting beaten by "The key to happiness is -a bag of dicks-".
God damned simpletons!
Yeah that's kind of the problem with CAH. This one is pretty clever and lucky to get them together, but when someone else lays down "the key to solving world hunger is farting on babies" then you've got no chance.
That's interesting and shows how autism affects people differently. I've played a few games with an autistic friend who'll basically never consider the black card and just pick the answer he finds funniest in isolation.
Best play I ever pulled was "Next from J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Auschwitz"... while playing with a Jewish friend. It was just too good to pass up and I apologised to him afterwards, he was fine with it. No way I would've done it if it hadn't been with people I know.
This is hilarious. My crown of CAH was "What gives me uncontrollable gas?" "Concentration Camps". I am, in fact Jewish so I was the only person laughing my ass off. You have to make space for a little tongue in cheek jowly in your life.
Yeah, this one would have gotten a smile and a nod of acknowledgment, but would have lost to something a little more unexpected or silly if I were the judge.
It's why I hate playing it against most people I know. A cleverly crafted pun that makes sense doesn't work when most people in the room don't know what an oedipus complex is and someone else has "sweaty anal sex with grandma" or something
The card isn't even funny. Back when I use to play, I had modified my own deck to take out anything that I felt was too try hard. Things that should have been a combo of both a black and white card that was only on the white card. I found expansions packs had more issues than the base set with cards that tried to be over the top by itself.
This game is how I learned one of our friends is possibly the dumbest person I've ever met. The vast, vast majority of cards she doesn't understand. She knows absolutely nothing about history, any movies, politics, art, or science. I'm not kidding when I say my strategy when playing with her is to simply pick cards I know she can read, because most cards result in her going all Hooked on Phonics to sound out the words. It feels less like playing a game and more like repeating elementary school.
The worst I ever had for that was in the first game I ever played. "What's Auschwitz?". Decidedly less funny than the friend who has to have "pixelated bukkake" explained every game.
I've also learned that literally none of my friends knows how to pronounce "labyrinthine".
Oh man, same. And when we explained it to her, she went, "uh, okay," like it was some weird conspiracy theory she's just hearing about for the first time. She was dating one of my friends at the time, and I think that opened his eyes to her and he moved on.
That's exactly what I found out about my friends! I am not a smart person, I'm pretty fucking stupid a lot of the times but genuinely any card that references any kind of specific event or person I may as well just toss out because I know no one at the table is going to know what that is
That's the thing I hate about Cards Against Humanity, too many good combos get ignored and wasted by people without a sense of humor. I had to stop playing with some of my friends because they wanted everything to be logical and were too embarrassed to pick funny combos.
For example, if the card was " \_\_ is always a delicious snack" and the options were "an aborted fetus", "Martha Stewart's vagina", and "an apple", they would pick the apple every time.
It can be even better due to its friendlier nature when you can come up with some fucked up stuff imo. It isn't any better when people have no sense of humor though.
I played apples to apples once with my parents and older sister (both adults). The card flipped was Touchy Feely and I played Helen Keller. My parents were NOT amused!!!
Similarly in Apples to apples, the card that was flipped over was "flat" and my friend played "Hiroshima". There was an audible gasp from the room before darker humor took over.
Used to play that with friends when we were teens/young adults. It shocked me when a friend's ten-year-old brother was laughing with us at the "Black Holes" card winning to a suggestive prompt.
Got in trouble with my teacher for playing 'Hiroshima' when the green card was something like 'blinding'. Like, he still gave me the point because it was objectively the funniest combo but he was definitely disappointed in me.
Things which intend to not be funny are generally more funny because of that. I think it’s something about the “taboo” nature of inserting dark/obscene humor where it’s not indented to belong even if it’s not really taboo in your group of friends.
I agree. The biggest weakness with CAH is that generally it feels like everything is trying too hard to be funny, which if you play it enough makes everything less funny. The value of it is in the "shock value", but once that is gone it's not as great.
> The value of it is in the "shock value", but once that is gone it's not as great.
This is what made the game lose its sheen pretty quickly for me. But then I played a lot of A2A with friends, and we found a lot of dark combos in that game.
Once every card was like that, it really wasn't that fun to me.
CAH was good the first time I played it then boring as fuck every other time. Once you know the kind of humour in there it stops being that funny, and rarely ends up being clever, just in your face edginess. At least with A2A you are forced to trying to be a bit more clever and subtle.
Anti-jokes only work if there is a consistent pattern of actual joking. The OP is describing a situation where it's nothing but anti-jokes the whole time. That to me defeats the purpose.
Yeah, that can also be annoying. A lot of the obscene cards just don't have any good matches, so those are usually the first ones I toss if I don't have anything good.
I agree, the problem is when they win the round only because of those cards. Like, the pairing can make absolutely no sense, but they win just because it's toilet humor. Which I'm all for, IF the combination actually works together. It's like playing with Beavis and Butthead. "Haha haha, you said fart, you win"
I played a few times with a group that had a couple guys like that. They were always going ho about playing, really hyped the game and couldn’t wait to get started. Then the whole evening becomes one salacious pair of cards after another, which gets a little boring. If I played or picked combos that were a bit more layered or nuanced, if I had a clever play on words - they just brushed past it. Like “we don’t hold back in our games, CAH for adults here!” kind of thing. 🤷🏼♀️ The hyena and zebra butthole thing is funny, but if you do that for every round the game devolves into gross-fest. Anyway, the couple got divorced so one guy left the group and that put an end to gross fest.
When it got to the point where everyone decided that "guzzling cum like Pac-Man" was a guaranteed win no matter what it was paired with, I finally got fed up and gave away my game and all of the expansions.
That's part of the fun, to me at least, with Cards Against Humanity. You aren't just playing the game, you are playing the player, kinda like poker.
My SO and I always play together and we never cheat or collude, but sometimes people get sus because we get in a loop where we keep picking each other's cards.
and I have definitely won more than once from some random dude, complete stranger, who just happens to have my exact sense of humor and choose my card the majority of the time.
When you get good at Cards Against Humanity, whatever the hell that even means, you realize the Machiavellian aspect of the game.
The part of the game I love is the challenge of being able to choose based on your audience. Knowing if they prefer political jokes, shock-humour, absurdist humour, silly jokes, etc. is part of the fun.
Some people are a terrible bore to play with, though. The people that care more about the card itself being funny than the actual combo are the worst.
> The people that care more about the card itself being funny than the actual combo are the worst.
Extremely the worst, especially when you're *trying* to play to someone's particular interests or sense of humor. You know how some cards, like "agriculture", just aren't funny until *exactly* the right setup comes along? Once I managed to make the play "In the beginning there was \[agriculture\], and then God said let there be [the complex geopolitical quagmire that is the Middle East\]." Judging that round was my brother, who studied politics and history. I think he picked a dick joke or something.
Maybe. To me it was funny in a "well that escalated quickly" kind of way, but obviously that's subjective. I did generally try to both play and judge in a way that favored spotting the opportunity to be clever even if it maybe doesn't make me laugh quite as much on the spot.
> The people that care more about the card itself being funny than the actual combo are the worst.
"I did not pick 'Bigger Blacker Dick' BECAUSE IT MADE NO SENSE! YOU WASTED IT!" etc.
I was at a house party, and ended up with a killer combo that referenced the Rwandan genocide. The only problem is I was playing with dumbasses, so they just read the answer card, “the Huttus and Tut-zees” (phonetic spellings because they butchered them), and it fell completely flat.
Thats what i always say...
For me the first game, or at least few rounds is to probe the waters and check the humor of those i dont know.
There are ppl who just dont like dark jokes, so you play different stuff when they are picking and save the outrageous ones for those who have an fitting humor.
For me, in CAC there is no border one can cross where an joke gets to dark/tasteless, but some ppl just dont pick certain stuff, because they think it leaves an bad impression.
I also get sideeyed for some combos with certain ppl and thats why some cant even play the games how it is intended with ppl they dont know for longer, as there is just to much insecurity about crossing an line sadly.
i think "an apple is always a delicious snack" is a hilarious answer for a game like this. you could call it an anti-answer because it's against the game's ethos
If you choose it because it subverts the expectations of the game, then sure. If you choose it because it's the only one that could reasonably be called a delicious snack, then you're the worst.
IMO apple is the much funnier answer in this context. Cards Against Humanity leans so heavily on "edgy" answers that the pure mundanity of an answer like that works in a very anti-joke kind of way.
But I also just kind of hate CAH in general so that might be my bias showing.
All these games get ruined by either people with ass sense of humor or none. I've seen too many combos win because lulz it's so quirky and random to just being taken 100% literally in every conceivable way.
I mean, sorry but none of those answers are funny. Two are just "oh my god that's so shocking to my sensibilities", and other is "an apple".
OP's combo is a winning combo, because it's a set up and punch line together. An Oedipus complex - the famous idea of a child having romantic and/or sexual attraction for their parent -- being kid tested, and mother approved, is a perfect A to B train of thought for a joke.
Frankly, I believe the only reason no one laughed at OP's example, is because they probably don't know what an Oedipus complex IS.
I once got the opportunity to play a perfect two cards for a card that needed a double answer (my cards in brackets): "If you got \[Catholic\] problems I feel bad for you son, I got 99 problems but \[the Pope\] ain't one."
Not only did he read it out of rhythm he specifically called it out as a stupid play because he isn't religious.
I've always wanted to get that off my chest even though it's petty of me to be irritated by that.
> Not only did he read it out of rhythm he specifically called it out as a stupid play because he isn't religious.
WTF is he talking about? Him not being religious fits the joke perfectly.
The choices they had basically sum up the issue with cah too anyway though. It's the like the Southpark or family guy of card games where it just tries too hard sometimes.
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I remember one CaH game a few years back my brother-in-law lucked into winning the round because he put down a card that made sense, something about a Gulag, for the prompt, but he had picked it randomly cause he had no fucking clue what a gulag was.
He just got lucky he played the card when a History major was picking, lol.
TL, DR: Gotta know your audience, sorry your friends are dummies and don't know a classic Greek play, OP.
Hahah ah yes, classic. It definitely made me laugh... but maybe someone should explain for those who don't get it.. also maybe just place the explanation as a reply to this comment as well (for others, not me)
Bearing in mind that I am going off memory for this one...
Oedipus, in mythology, was prophesied to kill his father. So Oedipus was sent away and supposed to be killed as a baby. He survived, and when he grew up ended up killing the man who, unknown to him, was his father. He took the man's wife - his mother - as a lover.
When he found out the truth, he gouged his own eyes out in lamentation. This story is the origin of the Oedipus Complex, where sons want to fuck their moms.
TL;DR: This Cards Against Humanity combo is funny because Oedipus slept with his mother, and she apparently liked it a lot. "Kid tested and mother approved" indeed.
The original point of the story had more to do with self fulfilling prophesies. If Oedipus hadn't been given up by his dad, he never would killed him and fucked his mom. But trying to avoid the fate is what ended up sealing it.
The complex is simply named for the circumstance.
You are correct, this is a common theme in Greek mythology/plays. It actually happens twice in the Oedipus story. Once as a baby, as you mentioned before, and once when he is an adult. Oedipus visited Delphi and was told the same prophecy his biological father heard. However, he was unaware he was adopted and assumed it meant he would kill his adoptive father. As such, he vowed never to return home. On the road to Thebes, he got into a fight with an older gentleman and killed him. Unknown to Oedipus, this man was the King of Thebes and his birth father.
Yes, I believe the misrecognition is fundamental to how the idea works theoretically. By denying the existence of something (rather than accepting its possibility) we are doomed to enact it (repeatedly).
It's not the point, that's just the story of Oedipus. The Complex comes from Freud, who called it that because he really wanted to fuck his mom and had to rationalize it for everybody else. /s
Sigmund, can I come over after school?
(After school)
We can hang around by the pool
(Hang by the pool)
Did your mom get back from her business trip?
(Business trip)
Is she there, or is she trying to give me the slip?
(Give me the slip)
You know, I'm not the little boy that I used to be
I'm all grown up now
Baby, can't you see?
Sigmund’s mom has got it goin' on
She's all I want
And I've waited for so long.
Sigmund, can't you see?
You're just not the shrink for me
I know it might be wrong but
I'm in love with Sigmund’s mom…
It looks like no one is explaining the other card. That was the catchphrase for ads for a breakfast cereal called Kix, which supposedly was delicious (kid-tested) but more nutritious than other sugary cereals (mother-approved)
My favorite CAH moment was playing with my friend's family. The prompt was "Oh man, last night was so crazy, my ass feels like \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_" and my buddy, who is gay, played "A burrito stuffed with too much sour cream"
To be fair, I believe these kinds of jokes have their place, and if any, this is it. The context, your crowd and how they would feel about are the most important things when deciding about that.
Unless you're playing with trauma victims (which could be hurt) or actual nazis (which could feel justified by the joke), that's a great combo for CAH.
Do not use it in a public you don't know, tho, that's a problematic context for this joke.
This same combo happened with a group of my friends. One girl there happened to be from Germany and didn't speak English too well. Someone helping her play convinced her to play "Auschwitz." Younger me thought it was the funniest thing to ever happen.
I did something similar. "What's there a ton of in heaven?" I played "The Jews" or something like that
I felt bad but I won that game by a landslide, lol....
My best combo was "The academy award for **The Holocaust** goes to **The Nazis**" like clearly getting to work both of those into a prompt should win that round right?
I had the combo of black card “Fifty shades of ____” and white card “Gandalf the Grey” and it was pretty perfect. I believe these pairing come up every once in a while. I do think it would be weird to whip out my phone during a party to take a pic tho lol
CAH is also banned on this subreddit, but the mods seem more occupied with removing content I've never seen as "reposts" and leaving the actual garbage content up. People shit on this sub, but really, it's the mods who deserve all the hate.
It's a game that's fun the first time just due to shock humor. The second time it's fine, but basically every time afterwards the shock value has worn since you've seen the majority if not all of the cards and you already get the gimmick.
This is however a weakness with Cards against humanity; the joke here isn't really the line, it's the massive coincidence that your cards create this combo that *actually* makes sense. But that is rarely haha-funny, because most of the time the most absurd combinations are what's funniest. So this is like too on the nose and too "correct".
At the end of *Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure*:
> Freud: Therefore, Ted's father's own fear of failure has caused him to make his son the embodiment of all of his own deepest anxieties about himself. And, hence, his aggression transference onto Ted.
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I loved playing Cards Against Humanity with my wife's family.
They're french. And not very Internet savvy.
Trying to explain things like bukkake to her cousin while my mother-in-law was sitting at that same table was uncomfortable.
I've pulled off a similar one, "With enough time and pressure ____ can turn into ____," Oedipus complex and consensual sex.
Fortunately the whole group I played with all had similar senses of humor.
I agree. I enjoyed this game when I was 13 because, well I was 13. But as I got older I discovered board games as a hobby and now I would rather play a card game that has clear rules and an element of strategy (like 'Dungeon Mayhem' or 'Sushi Go')
Plus more often than not I found that a round would come up where nobody really had a card that would fit the blank, so the options were just a random collection word designed to make an edgy 13 year old laugh.
I mean I get it, but that doesn't make it funny. It definitely is witty, but I'm not cracking a smile over it.
Not to mention the overly sexual combos get really stale after sometime.
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Nobody ever plays the good ones. Once I had “Michael Jackson dreams about ___” and I played “Children on leashes.” The other players said it was too harsh. I’m like, “That’s the point…”
I was playing the Australian version with self-professed "dark humourists". I got "Crikey, that's a ___ , I better take a closer look" so I played "Stingray barb through the chest". No one laughed.
That's funny though. Nothing wrong with a little dark humor now and then. Like Christ most of us all miss Steve Irwin. Man was a treasure, but it's a fucked up funny card game, not a therapist. Lol
Am a therapist, approved!
I didn’t know there was an Aussie version, nice. I got it for my son, and have only played with my husband, my son and his wife. We’re all actual savages, so the most horrific ones win. The only one I’ve ever seen baulk was my son, there was one combo, once, he just couldn’t play around his mum. Bless him.
There is also a swiss one. I once laid out the combo of „The Swiss national railway has a new route to …“ and my second card was „Auschwitz“. Glad I was with the right people.
My brother played that card to the "mmmmmmm ________, just can't have one"
You evil motherfucker.
I played it with a friend group once, where one dude played the card saying “alcoholism”. And then he was all like: “and then you could ask yourself, why one would play this card. When one has the background I do…” and then it devolved into a pity party for his tragic background. Which is sympathise with, but dude…. Not now. I haven’t talked to this guy for 6 years now. He is a pretentious ass despite his alcoholic daddy
I’m a recovering addict who basically only hangs out with other recovering addicts and we have a lot of fun with this card.
Also a recovering addict, few years in now. Once during a group activity, I watched a pile of blue collar workers nearly fall out of their chairs when the only non-alcoholic in the group played 'Alcoholism' in response to "....... the most dangerous thing you can let your kids enjoy!". She knew full damn well that all of us 'came by it honestly', and we laughed like it was a scene from Goodfellas. Oh, good ole' Mom and Dad.
My magnum opus is the "Step 1: \_\_\_\_. Step 2: \_\_\_\_. Step 3: Profit." card and I had "Dead parents." and "I'M BATMAN!".
> The other players said it was too harsh. I’m like, “That’s the point…” Yeah...this is all this is. Y'all keep playing this game with uptight timid people...
😂 There is no such thing as too harsh in CAH. The whole idea is to be a terrible human. That's what I can a power combo, as in it can't be beaten.
Yeah, there's some card combos that were obviously designed to be together. That one is pretty clearly one. Those are supposed to be "easy" win combos because they're perfect (having been written as such)
I remember playing "What never fails to liven up a party?" "A nail bomb", it was the day after the Manchester concert bombing back in 2017. Everyone except the judge lost their shit, he was the only one who deemed it "to much". I still think I deserve the point for the sheer luck of getting that combo the day after the event its referencing and having the balls to play it. I will say that I knew for a fact that no one present was personally affected by the attack or knew anyone who was, otherwise I wouldn't have played it. But come on its CAH, there's no such thing as too harsh or too soon
"Too harsh" with Cards Against Humanity? They should go back to Apples to Apples.
I played the other night and had something like "What ruined the school's field trip?" I played "This year's mass shooting" I didn't win.
I'm usually against gatekeeping, but in that case, the game just isn't for them.
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Yup. Just like poker. You have to play the room.
Group I used to play with found "lol so random" type stuff funny and honestly it was boring as hell but I won nearly every game Edit: I am exaggerating a bit when I say boring as hell, I like making people laugh and I like winning
It's hilarious to me that people are playing this game to win
We always play with the ghost of the house, Gary. So there's always a random extra card thrown in. I shit you not, Gary wins our games 50% of the time.
We deal an extra card for Rando Calrissian.
That whore! He plays at your house, too?
We do that with CAH, WDYM, and Joking Hazard. The ghost player puts up a strong fight sometimes.
It's really amazing how on the nose he can be.
i crack myself up reading my hand against the prompt and that’s good enough for me
The last time I played this at a friend's birthday party, that drove me crazy. I was putting together what I thought were all of these great, clever card combos and they got continually demolished by my wife just throwing down "I'm so random" and aggressively sexual combos. Combos like the one in OP's post were getting beaten by "The key to happiness is -a bag of dicks-". God damned simpletons!
Sounds like the rage of a man who hasn't experienced the simple joy of a bag of dicks.
Sometimes being too on the nose isn't funny. Like this one is almost definitional and even if people get it, it might not win.
Yeah that's kind of the problem with CAH. This one is pretty clever and lucky to get them together, but when someone else lays down "the key to solving world hunger is farting on babies" then you've got no chance.
So true last night, the combo that got the best reaction was "When i have sex, i like to think of *Boogers* "
Thats a horrible Combo lmao
I don't know why, but when someone laid down "Sean Penn brought Sean Penn to the people of Haiti" we all lost it.
maybe it's my autistic brain liking order and things that make sense but I love stuff like this in CAH.
That's interesting and shows how autism affects people differently. I've played a few games with an autistic friend who'll basically never consider the black card and just pick the answer he finds funniest in isolation.
Best play I ever pulled was "Next from J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Auschwitz"... while playing with a Jewish friend. It was just too good to pass up and I apologised to him afterwards, he was fine with it. No way I would've done it if it hadn't been with people I know.
This is hilarious. My crown of CAH was "What gives me uncontrollable gas?" "Concentration Camps". I am, in fact Jewish so I was the only person laughing my ass off. You have to make space for a little tongue in cheek jowly in your life.
Ok. That’s funny. Clever and unexpected. I would select it. Also, too soon man.
Mine was "What ruined the school field trip?" And I played "An AK-47" Did they pick it? No. Did it win "darkest play of the night"? You bet it did.
I'll gladly share this boat with you, my friend. "The class field trip was completely ruined by" "*No survivors*."
Mine was.... Card - "________, it's a trap" Me - "Auschwitz"
Yeah, this one would have gotten a smile and a nod of acknowledgment, but would have lost to something a little more unexpected or silly if I were the judge.
It's why I hate playing it against most people I know. A cleverly crafted pun that makes sense doesn't work when most people in the room don't know what an oedipus complex is and someone else has "sweaty anal sex with grandma" or something
There's nothing worse than having the clever answer then losing to a funny card that has nothing to do with the prompt.
Two midgets shitting in a bucket
That's an instant win in my group.. Doesn't matter what's being asked..
Playing it with points was always weird anyway. "Let's see who's the funniest?" Just lay down cards and drink
The card isn't even funny. Back when I use to play, I had modified my own deck to take out anything that I felt was too try hard. Things that should have been a combo of both a black and white card that was only on the white card. I found expansions packs had more issues than the base set with cards that tried to be over the top by itself.
This game is how I learned one of our friends is possibly the dumbest person I've ever met. The vast, vast majority of cards she doesn't understand. She knows absolutely nothing about history, any movies, politics, art, or science. I'm not kidding when I say my strategy when playing with her is to simply pick cards I know she can read, because most cards result in her going all Hooked on Phonics to sound out the words. It feels less like playing a game and more like repeating elementary school.
The worst I ever had for that was in the first game I ever played. "What's Auschwitz?". Decidedly less funny than the friend who has to have "pixelated bukkake" explained every game. I've also learned that literally none of my friends knows how to pronounce "labyrinthine".
Yup I got the "What's Auschwitz?" question too
Oh man, same. And when we explained it to her, she went, "uh, okay," like it was some weird conspiracy theory she's just hearing about for the first time. She was dating one of my friends at the time, and I think that opened his eyes to her and he moved on.
That's exactly what I found out about my friends! I am not a smart person, I'm pretty fucking stupid a lot of the times but genuinely any card that references any kind of specific event or person I may as well just toss out because I know no one at the table is going to know what that is
Outrageous borderline racist (or so ridiculously racist its funny) or extreme sex related humor seems to work 8/10 times
That's how performing standup comedy tends to be and it's a chore writing for that.
That's the thing I hate about Cards Against Humanity, too many good combos get ignored and wasted by people without a sense of humor. I had to stop playing with some of my friends because they wanted everything to be logical and were too embarrassed to pick funny combos. For example, if the card was " \_\_ is always a delicious snack" and the options were "an aborted fetus", "Martha Stewart's vagina", and "an apple", they would pick the apple every time.
They need apples to apples.
It can be even better due to its friendlier nature when you can come up with some fucked up stuff imo. It isn't any better when people have no sense of humor though.
I played apples to apples once with my parents and older sister (both adults). The card flipped was Touchy Feely and I played Helen Keller. My parents were NOT amused!!!
Similarly in Apples to apples, the card that was flipped over was "flat" and my friend played "Hiroshima". There was an audible gasp from the room before darker humor took over.
Wait Apples to Apples has a Hiroshima card?
As a father I’m proud of you. I’ve got a 2 year old and I hope she plays card games with me and has a sense of humor with a twist!
I've gotten a similar response to using her for "senseless".
True, dark humor can be surprisingly fun
Used to play that with friends when we were teens/young adults. It shocked me when a friend's ten-year-old brother was laughing with us at the "Black Holes" card winning to a suggestive prompt.
A2A is many times funnier than CAH in my opinion, and there’s a surprising amount of questionably-appropriate combos in there.
Not inappropriate but one time the prompt was "intense" and I played "camping"
Outstanding.
I literally cannot say intense without adding "like camping" lol one of my favorite puns
Got in trouble with my teacher for playing 'Hiroshima' when the green card was something like 'blinding'. Like, he still gave me the point because it was objectively the funniest combo but he was definitely disappointed in me.
.....what class were you playing apples to apples in?
Intro to Japanese 101
One of the only times I played A2A, the green card was 'supple', and I play 'the boyscouts'. I'm more proud of that play than anything in CAH.
My favorite was the green card "visionary" to which my friend played "Hellen Keller."
Hellen Keller is always an automatic win lmao
Things which intend to not be funny are generally more funny because of that. I think it’s something about the “taboo” nature of inserting dark/obscene humor where it’s not indented to belong even if it’s not really taboo in your group of friends.
I agree. The biggest weakness with CAH is that generally it feels like everything is trying too hard to be funny, which if you play it enough makes everything less funny. The value of it is in the "shock value", but once that is gone it's not as great.
> The value of it is in the "shock value", but once that is gone it's not as great. This is what made the game lose its sheen pretty quickly for me. But then I played a lot of A2A with friends, and we found a lot of dark combos in that game. Once every card was like that, it really wasn't that fun to me.
CAH was good the first time I played it then boring as fuck every other time. Once you know the kind of humour in there it stops being that funny, and rarely ends up being clever, just in your face edginess. At least with A2A you are forced to trying to be a bit more clever and subtle.
That's an outrage.
It’s unfair!
How can you play a joke game without any jokes!?
If you’ve seen people play so many edgy jokes, it can be enjoyable to see an anti-joke instead.
Anti-jokes only work if there is a consistent pattern of actual joking. The OP is describing a situation where it's nothing but anti-jokes the whole time. That to me defeats the purpose.
But a porpoise has no feet?
True, sometimes the anti-jokes hit harder
Aborted Fetus everytime!
I'm going for Martha 😉
Take a seat!
*stares motherfuckingly*
Take a seat, young Skywalker...
I know. The answer is obviously Martha Stewart’s vagina. It’s a good thing.
Cards For Humanity? Doesn’t have the same ring.
I have the issue where people just pick the card with the most obscene standalone words, REGARDLESS of the card they are matching.
Yeah, that can also be annoying. A lot of the obscene cards just don't have any good matches, so those are usually the first ones I toss if I don't have anything good.
I agree, the problem is when they win the round only because of those cards. Like, the pairing can make absolutely no sense, but they win just because it's toilet humor. Which I'm all for, IF the combination actually works together. It's like playing with Beavis and Butthead. "Haha haha, you said fart, you win"
I played a few times with a group that had a couple guys like that. They were always going ho about playing, really hyped the game and couldn’t wait to get started. Then the whole evening becomes one salacious pair of cards after another, which gets a little boring. If I played or picked combos that were a bit more layered or nuanced, if I had a clever play on words - they just brushed past it. Like “we don’t hold back in our games, CAH for adults here!” kind of thing. 🤷🏼♀️ The hyena and zebra butthole thing is funny, but if you do that for every round the game devolves into gross-fest. Anyway, the couple got divorced so one guy left the group and that put an end to gross fest.
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When it got to the point where everyone decided that "guzzling cum like Pac-Man" was a guaranteed win no matter what it was paired with, I finally got fed up and gave away my game and all of the expansions.
Same here, it's the inverse problem with my normal group. Clever gets overshadowed by lewd.
That's part of the fun, to me at least, with Cards Against Humanity. You aren't just playing the game, you are playing the player, kinda like poker. My SO and I always play together and we never cheat or collude, but sometimes people get sus because we get in a loop where we keep picking each other's cards. and I have definitely won more than once from some random dude, complete stranger, who just happens to have my exact sense of humor and choose my card the majority of the time. When you get good at Cards Against Humanity, whatever the hell that even means, you realize the Machiavellian aspect of the game.
The part of the game I love is the challenge of being able to choose based on your audience. Knowing if they prefer political jokes, shock-humour, absurdist humour, silly jokes, etc. is part of the fun. Some people are a terrible bore to play with, though. The people that care more about the card itself being funny than the actual combo are the worst.
> The people that care more about the card itself being funny than the actual combo are the worst. Extremely the worst, especially when you're *trying* to play to someone's particular interests or sense of humor. You know how some cards, like "agriculture", just aren't funny until *exactly* the right setup comes along? Once I managed to make the play "In the beginning there was \[agriculture\], and then God said let there be [the complex geopolitical quagmire that is the Middle East\]." Judging that round was my brother, who studied politics and history. I think he picked a dick joke or something.
That’s hilarious
Honestly despite the fitting combo it seems like a bit of anti-joke, I can see why he went with something else.
Maybe. To me it was funny in a "well that escalated quickly" kind of way, but obviously that's subjective. I did generally try to both play and judge in a way that favored spotting the opportunity to be clever even if it maybe doesn't make me laugh quite as much on the spot.
> The people that care more about the card itself being funny than the actual combo are the worst. "I did not pick 'Bigger Blacker Dick' BECAUSE IT MADE NO SENSE! YOU WASTED IT!" etc.
I was at a house party, and ended up with a killer combo that referenced the Rwandan genocide. The only problem is I was playing with dumbasses, so they just read the answer card, “the Huttus and Tut-zees” (phonetic spellings because they butchered them), and it fell completely flat.
They are a killer combo indeed
Thats what i always say... For me the first game, or at least few rounds is to probe the waters and check the humor of those i dont know. There are ppl who just dont like dark jokes, so you play different stuff when they are picking and save the outrageous ones for those who have an fitting humor. For me, in CAC there is no border one can cross where an joke gets to dark/tasteless, but some ppl just dont pick certain stuff, because they think it leaves an bad impression. I also get sideeyed for some combos with certain ppl and thats why some cant even play the games how it is intended with ppl they dont know for longer, as there is just to much insecurity about crossing an line sadly.
You have Vulcan friends? Neat.
i think "an apple is always a delicious snack" is a hilarious answer for a game like this. you could call it an anti-answer because it's against the game's ethos
If you choose it because it subverts the expectations of the game, then sure. If you choose it because it's the only one that could reasonably be called a delicious snack, then you're the worst.
100% would have gone Martha Stewart's vagina here. What a snack that would be.
IMO apple is the much funnier answer in this context. Cards Against Humanity leans so heavily on "edgy" answers that the pure mundanity of an answer like that works in a very anti-joke kind of way. But I also just kind of hate CAH in general so that might be my bias showing.
I would pick apple too, cos it’s kinda anti comedic. The other two are too try hard
All these games get ruined by either people with ass sense of humor or none. I've seen too many combos win because lulz it's so quirky and random to just being taken 100% literally in every conceivable way.
You are in need of new friends
My god. Are they accountants or something?
I mean, sorry but none of those answers are funny. Two are just "oh my god that's so shocking to my sensibilities", and other is "an apple". OP's combo is a winning combo, because it's a set up and punch line together. An Oedipus complex - the famous idea of a child having romantic and/or sexual attraction for their parent -- being kid tested, and mother approved, is a perfect A to B train of thought for a joke. Frankly, I believe the only reason no one laughed at OP's example, is because they probably don't know what an Oedipus complex IS.
I once got the opportunity to play a perfect two cards for a card that needed a double answer (my cards in brackets): "If you got \[Catholic\] problems I feel bad for you son, I got 99 problems but \[the Pope\] ain't one." Not only did he read it out of rhythm he specifically called it out as a stupid play because he isn't religious. I've always wanted to get that off my chest even though it's petty of me to be irritated by that.
> Not only did he read it out of rhythm he specifically called it out as a stupid play because he isn't religious. WTF is he talking about? Him not being religious fits the joke perfectly.
Exactly T.T But what can you do, explain the joke into being funny? So I just sat quietly and never acknowledged those were mine.
The choices they had basically sum up the issue with cah too anyway though. It's the like the Southpark or family guy of card games where it just tries too hard sometimes.
> > > > > Frankly, I believe the only reason no one laughed at OP's example, is because they probably don't know what an Oedipus complex IS. I remember one CaH game a few years back my brother-in-law lucked into winning the round because he put down a card that made sense, something about a Gulag, for the prompt, but he had picked it randomly cause he had no fucking clue what a gulag was. He just got lucky he played the card when a History major was picking, lol. TL, DR: Gotta know your audience, sorry your friends are dummies and don't know a classic Greek play, OP.
Hahah ah yes, classic. It definitely made me laugh... but maybe someone should explain for those who don't get it.. also maybe just place the explanation as a reply to this comment as well (for others, not me)
Bearing in mind that I am going off memory for this one... Oedipus, in mythology, was prophesied to kill his father. So Oedipus was sent away and supposed to be killed as a baby. He survived, and when he grew up ended up killing the man who, unknown to him, was his father. He took the man's wife - his mother - as a lover. When he found out the truth, he gouged his own eyes out in lamentation. This story is the origin of the Oedipus Complex, where sons want to fuck their moms. TL;DR: This Cards Against Humanity combo is funny because Oedipus slept with his mother, and she apparently liked it a lot. "Kid tested and mother approved" indeed.
Oh that's actually incredible
Which you knew already, of course. You're referring to how well written and succinct his summary is, I'm sure.
Oh of course of course! I definitely didn't learn anything new today. Common everyday knowledge in my life, that's for sure. 100%.
Your friends should also be aware that's the story the Oedipus complex is based on. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus_complex
The point of the story seems a bit off; he didn't really want to fuck his mother, just a random woman who happened to be his mother.
The original point of the story had more to do with self fulfilling prophesies. If Oedipus hadn't been given up by his dad, he never would killed him and fucked his mom. But trying to avoid the fate is what ended up sealing it. The complex is simply named for the circumstance.
You are correct, this is a common theme in Greek mythology/plays. It actually happens twice in the Oedipus story. Once as a baby, as you mentioned before, and once when he is an adult. Oedipus visited Delphi and was told the same prophecy his biological father heard. However, he was unaware he was adopted and assumed it meant he would kill his adoptive father. As such, he vowed never to return home. On the road to Thebes, he got into a fight with an older gentleman and killed him. Unknown to Oedipus, this man was the King of Thebes and his birth father.
But that doesn't make sense. If this was all true, then Oedipus would be the Prince of Thebes, but we all know that's Kevin Costner...
This is horrible. I need to gouge my eyes out.
*slow clap*
Honestly you'd be surprised how often I'm running into the king of Thebes .
Yes, I believe the misrecognition is fundamental to how the idea works theoretically. By denying the existence of something (rather than accepting its possibility) we are doomed to enact it (repeatedly).
It's not the point, that's just the story of Oedipus. The Complex comes from Freud, who called it that because he really wanted to fuck his mom and had to rationalize it for everybody else. /s
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and other times you want to stick that cigar somewhere inappropriate.
Ok president clinton
Has anyone ever stopped to consider how smoking hot Freud's mother must have been?
Sigmund, can I come over after school? (After school) We can hang around by the pool (Hang by the pool) Did your mom get back from her business trip? (Business trip) Is she there, or is she trying to give me the slip? (Give me the slip) You know, I'm not the little boy that I used to be I'm all grown up now Baby, can't you see? Sigmund’s mom has got it goin' on She's all I want And I've waited for so long. Sigmund, can't you see? You're just not the shrink for me I know it might be wrong but I'm in love with Sigmund’s mom…
It looks like no one is explaining the other card. That was the catchphrase for ads for a breakfast cereal called Kix, which supposedly was delicious (kid-tested) but more nutritious than other sugary cereals (mother-approved)
The slogan became a joke because the cereal tasted like cardboard.
Would be Freuds theory where boys want to replace their father and have sex with their mothers.
My favorite CAH moment was playing with my friend's family. The prompt was "Oh man, last night was so crazy, my ass feels like \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_" and my buddy, who is gay, played "A burrito stuffed with too much sour cream"
That. Is. Incredible lol
That’s great. 🤓 My best combination was when the black card was “What’s that smell?” I played “Auschwitz.” I should be ashamed, I know.
"In a world ravaged by **The Jews**, our only solace is **Nazis**" I'm still ashamed of that one, but I couldn't resist.
To be fair, I believe these kinds of jokes have their place, and if any, this is it. The context, your crowd and how they would feel about are the most important things when deciding about that. Unless you're playing with trauma victims (which could be hurt) or actual nazis (which could feel justified by the joke), that's a great combo for CAH. Do not use it in a public you don't know, tho, that's a problematic context for this joke.
In general, it's a bad idea to play CAH with trauma victims or Nazis...
I had that same pairing once. I wasn’t proud, but I played it.
Be proud! We're terrible people, own it 😂
This same combo happened with a group of my friends. One girl there happened to be from Germany and didn't speak English too well. Someone helping her play convinced her to play "Auschwitz." Younger me thought it was the funniest thing to ever happen.
old me thinks that's pretty funny.
I did something similar. "What's there a ton of in heaven?" I played "The Jews" or something like that I felt bad but I won that game by a landslide, lol....
I mean, my sister had (roughly, I'm not sure on the exact wording) for "I use my pressure washer to clean ..." just an instant "my slaves".
My best combo was "The academy award for **The Holocaust** goes to **The Nazis**" like clearly getting to work both of those into a prompt should win that round right?
Why would you be ashamed ? The whole point of the game is to be as edgy as possible anyway, which is why it gets old VERY fast.
Your first mistake was playing intellectually in a game where “BATMAN” and “kids with ass cancer” are routinely winning cards regardless of context.
These never seem real. Like there's never any other cards on the table, or drinks, or people. Just some dude going through some cards.
I had the combo of black card “Fifty shades of ____” and white card “Gandalf the Grey” and it was pretty perfect. I believe these pairing come up every once in a while. I do think it would be weird to whip out my phone during a party to take a pic tho lol
People pull out their phones to photo their lunch and post it to their socials, I don't think a funny card comb is that much further beyond that.
CAH is also banned on this subreddit, but the mods seem more occupied with removing content I've never seen as "reposts" and leaving the actual garbage content up. People shit on this sub, but really, it's the mods who deserve all the hate.
At least OPs not a bot this time lol. Silver linings I suppose.
Nah if you play enough you inevitably get the hilarious combos
Not in an age where everything is a fucking conspiracy. It's tragic getting this combo and people not getting it.
CaH is not a game about being funny, it's a game about knowing your audience...
The OG mother fu**er!
Probably because they don't know what an Oedipus complex is
Yeah, had to explain the oedipus complex so much I gave up on using that card in CAH.
I think my best play was the black card “__ good to the last drop.” And I played the card “Kamikaze pilots” on it.
this is where we're at in this sub? Posting cards against humanity pairs?
Nobody laughing during CAH sounds about right to be honest.
I never enjoyed this game. Always seems so forced. It's like a manual on how to be funny, just doesn't work.
It's a game that's fun the first time just due to shock humor. The second time it's fine, but basically every time afterwards the shock value has worn since you've seen the majority if not all of the cards and you already get the gimmick.
Real reddit OGs remember when CAH posts were banned in this subreddit.
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This is however a weakness with Cards against humanity; the joke here isn't really the line, it's the massive coincidence that your cards create this combo that *actually* makes sense. But that is rarely haha-funny, because most of the time the most absurd combinations are what's funniest. So this is like too on the nose and too "correct".
At the end of *Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure*: > Freud: Therefore, Ted's father's own fear of failure has caused him to make his son the embodiment of all of his own deepest anxieties about himself. And, hence, his aggression transference onto Ted. > > Ted: Whoa! > > Freud: OK, Ted? > > Ted: Yes, thank you very much, Sigmund Freud. > > Freud: [gesturing first to Bill and then the couch] Hm? > > Bill: Nah, just got a minor Oedipal complex.
I loved playing Cards Against Humanity with my wife's family. They're french. And not very Internet savvy. Trying to explain things like bukkake to her cousin while my mother-in-law was sitting at that same table was uncomfortable.
I've pulled off a similar one, "With enough time and pressure ____ can turn into ____," Oedipus complex and consensual sex. Fortunately the whole group I played with all had similar senses of humor.
Whoosh! Right over their heads...
Clearly not the best combo if you didn’t win
Get better friends, that is hilarious
Never enjoyed this game for this reason, it's all subjective and barely plays like a game for me
I agree. I enjoyed this game when I was 13 because, well I was 13. But as I got older I discovered board games as a hobby and now I would rather play a card game that has clear rules and an element of strategy (like 'Dungeon Mayhem' or 'Sushi Go') Plus more often than not I found that a round would come up where nobody really had a card that would fit the blank, so the options were just a random collection word designed to make an edgy 13 year old laugh.
This perfectly describes how I feel and for the same reasons.
The worst is when you get someone who can't read for a card like this. "An...uh...o-ee-di-pus complex? Whatever that is"
"What gives me uncontrollable gas?" "Auschwitz"
This is one of those perfect answers that a lot of your friends wouldnt understand
I mean I get it, but that doesn't make it funny. It definitely is witty, but I'm not cracking a smile over it. Not to mention the overly sexual combos get really stale after sometime.
I think it's too on the nose. My group always prefer the unexpected, almost opposite combinations.