Metroland News Weekly
December 9-15, 1999
Keith Ammann
USA

But Hasbro isn't the only fish in the party-game sea, and a couple of games published this year by small publishers rank right up there with Hasbro's best. Out of the Box's Apples to Apples (4-10 players, $20) presents a simple concept: From a hand of cards printed with names of people, places, things and events, choose one that matches the adjective card on the table. It sounds almost too straightforward to be fun, except that a typical hand might have you deciding which is the most "stunning": "Dennis Rodman," "Anne Frank," "the Great Depression," "a high school bathroom" or "rust." Put together half a dozen people trying to make the same decision with an equally inappropriate set of nouns to choose from, and hilarity invariably ensues.

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