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Christmas Shopping Guide
December 2003
USA

This is the perfect massive party game. It allows almost any number of people, I would expect the game would slow down at around 20 people, and you’d begin to run out of cards at about 30 or 40 people. Basically, one player is a judge. That player flips over a category card that reads something like “love” or “squishy”. Then all the other players quickly choose a card from their hand that exemplifies the category. Since you only have five cards to choose from, you might have quandaries like: “Is Elvis more squishy than the Eiffle Tower?” or “Which is more tasteless, the Korean War, or a Shark?”. Once players choose a card, its placed face down in the center of the table. The last player to choose a card and place it down has to pick it back up. This lends a time element to the game. Then the Judge takes all the cards and decides which card, IN HIS OR HER OPINION, best fits the category. The player who put down that card gets the category card and the role of the judge passes to the judge’s left. To win, you need to collect three category cards. Since the judge’s opinions are always final, it helps to know your opponents. Some judges just happen to feel that Madonna is a great fit for the “Expensive” category, even if another player plays the “Diamond Ring” card. The game is easy to learn and players can even join or leave in the middle of the game without disrupting anything. Expansions are available if you get bored of the original set of cards included in the game. There are even blank cards provided for you to customize things a bit.

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