Apples to Apples: Suggestions for cards

[barondave]

Trolling for ideas!

Apples to Apples is a fun party game, and one can get an expansion set of blank cards and use the Out of the Box MyCard site to customize them.

A while back, I made a sheet of Noun cards for Richard T:
Blog
Dreampark
Filk
Gaming
Light Shows
Minicon
Richard T
Shockwave Radio

In the fullness of time, I completely forgot about the other blank sheets of cards. I still have two sheets (8 per) for Nouns and one of Adjectives. Any suggestions?

Comments

[fmsv.livejournal.com]

More "Giant Squid" cards!

[saracura.livejournal.com]

Nouns:
My Face
My Ass
The world
Morning Breath
Boogers
Love Birds

Adjective:
Stinky
Boring
Disappointing
Enlightening

I could go on and on.... Hope a few of those inspire you.

[emiofbrie.livejournal.com]

Back in the day when TCAAMS roamed the earth, we had made a set of "Anime Apples to Apples" cards. I wonder whatever happened to them...

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

Adjectives:

psychedelic
tie-dyed
gamy
sfnal (maybe)
fantastic
strategic
atmospheric

[skylarker.livejournal.com]

Cthulhu should be on one (possibly other elder gods)

Eldritch would make a great adjective

Maybe a few actual game titles. 'Apples to Apples' would be an interesting card to include in the Apples to Apples set.

[asimovberlioz.livejournal.com]

The same Richard T whose son is named for a LotR character?

[barondave.livejournal.com]

Could you be more specific?

[barondave.livejournal.com]

Several of those are already in there. More local, more in-crowdish.

[barondave.livejournal.com]

I believe psychedelic and fantastic are part of a set already, iirc. Tie-dyed and stf-nal were on my list. What kind of atmospheric? Could you put a twist on strategic?

[barondave.livejournal.com]

Cthulhu is already in a set. Eldritch is good. I rather like the recursion of Apples to Apples.

[barondave.livejournal.com]

The very same. Pandering to the judge is encouraged in Apples to Apples, and Light Show or Dreampark win a fair amount of time when he's the judge... just like Shockwave Radio is frequently the right pander for me.

[fmsv.livejournal.com]

I just like the idea of an extra sheet of noun cards with Giant Squid on them, because after all, what isn't that a good answer to? (This isn't entirely a serious answer.) (Having duplicate cards in the game makes the game mechanics difficult, because who would get the adjective card if the matching cards were the ones chosen by the judge?)

[asimovberlioz.livejournal.com]

I like "Apples to Apples." Have played it along with gvdub, _darkvictory and others.

[thorintatge.livejournal.com]

Heh, I played with them once! And won, to my surprise, despite being the littlest anime geek in the game. I guess I assumed every subculture fandom had their own Apples to Apples variant. ;)

words for Apples to Apples

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

Part of the thing with choosing words for A2A is that flexibility can help a lot. (Of course, the winning combination amongst some fans I know remains the very literal "Helen Keller" and "visionary.") I started by thinking about Richard T, who's a quiet person I don't know very well, but whose efforts have helped make my Minicons (and other Mpls. fan experiences) much more interesting.

"Strategic" -- I know that Richard & household occasionally host game nights. "Strategic" can apply to many games (and not just Stratego) and various sorts of games. I also liked the point-of-view connotation implicit in the choosing of strategies.

"Atmospheric" -- I had a similar thought process. RT has done such nice light shows at Minicon, et al., which is probably more ambiance, but that word eluded me at the time. I liked that atmospheric could be taken scientifically.

Hope this helps.