Laugh with your friends

I think originally this was a game my daughter and her friends found on the Internet and so they put the quips on pieces of paper by hand. We were traveling last summer through all the main colleges from Ashland, Oregon to Seattle because they could do all the colleges in California with their parents if they wanted to. So, my wife and I paid for our daughter and 3 other girls and my wife and I to do this. At about Portland I personally burnt out from all the estrogen and teen angst so I went to Mt. Hood with my oldest daughter to unwind before renting a car and meeting them in Seattle.

However, the last night in Portland we were all together before I went to Mt. Hood with my oldest daughter we played this hysterically funny game called, "Cards Against Humanity" which is a terrible name for a game but the game is hysterical to play just because of the accidental nature of it.

There is a question with blanks on one card and then there are crazy answers on another set of cards. Each player gets 7 answer cards at one time. So, the object of the game is to choose the funniest of the 7 cards for each question each time. I'm usually pretty good at this game. It is the craziness of the combinations that make everyone laugh. Not ever response is funny because some responses are just crazy or disgusting. But, usually one of the 7 cards is really going to make everyone laugh. But, you sort of have to be in the crazy way of looking at things like a high school or college student to really enjoy this game. A game like this tends to blow out the cobwebs and warp your mind a little so you can move on in your life and release some tension laughing with your friends.

You are going to laugh until you stop playing this game because you are disgusted with yourself for laughing at all the crazy things you find yourself laughing about. But, in the process you have released the tensions of the week, or month and bonded with your friends.

This weekend everyone gathered for my daughter's high school graduation. So, about 7 of us played this game for an hour or two. I couldn't take it anymore and got up and watered the yard while they continued to play a 3rd hour. But, I felt very bonded with the group which was a good thing for all of us the rest of the weekend.

Note: you can now buy this game and not have to write them all on little strips of paper. It is just called "Cards against Humanity" and comes in a little black box about 4 inches by 10 inches by maybe 2 1/2 inches to 3 inches. So, if you have been taking life way to seriously lately and need to sort of blow out the cobwebs this is the game for it.