Apples to Apples Party Box - The Game of Hilarious Comparisons
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Toys and Games Reviews of Apples to Apples Party Box - The Game of Hilarious Comparisons
Customer Review: Great with the Proper Crowd
Summary: 5 Stars
It isn't so much the game itself, it's the people playing it that makes this game a riot. (I won't repeat the rules. It's been done too many times already.)
One person is the judge. He or she gets to decide whose card is the winning card. Players may have a perfect match to the played card, yet lose because the judge is thinking along different lines. Every judge is unique. The skill comes from trying to predict what the current judge is thinking, and how he will decide that hand. One judge may reject perfect matching cards, considering them less creative than other played cards. Another judge may only accept cards that are the closest match to the played card. The fun comes when a stickler for the rules loses the round to someone who played a card that he thinks is stupid. (EXAMPLE... The card displayed is RADIO. Four players offer MUSIC, NEWS, BROADCAST and MACARONI. The judge accepts MACARONI because he thinks it best describes - in a very creative way - Marconi, the inventor of the radio.)
The beauty is in the fact that the rules are not cemented in stone. The only real rule is what the current judge says the rule is. He doesn't have to justify his decision no matter how off base his decision may be. When you figure out that a certain judge prefers answers that aren't an exact match to the played card because he thinks those cards required no thought, then you gear your answers around that judge's quirks.
But you need a good group of people to play this game. That is the key to ridiculous enjoyment. You won't want to push yourself away from the playing table.
Customer Review: A good choice for a large crowd
Summary: 4 Stars
Apples to Apples is a very simple, easy to play game that is fun, strategic and a bit of a character study.
The game is simple, each player is dealt out cards equal to one less than the number of players, then the first player reveals a card with a description say "disgusting". The other players then choose the card that best matches that choice, the first player then looks at the choices and chooses his pick. Whoever choice is picked get the card and the point.
Sounds simple but there are two complications. The first is (using the example above) that it is not so much what is the most disgusting it is what that person considers the most disgusting. If for example someone hates their job fitting pipes and you give a card that says pipes then it might be selected over a card that says raw sewage.
It also gets more complicated because your hand isn't refilled. So when you get down to two cards and the word is satisfying , which do give a as a card when your choices are a brick and flip-flops? Your only consolation is that the people you are playing with are likely down to choices just as bad as yours are.
Its a lot of fun also consider the Apples to Apples Junior - The Game of Crazy Comparisons! if you want to avoid choices such as Viagra.
A good choice particularly for gamers like myself who's want to get their wives to play something.
Customer Review: Apples to Apples works in many, many ways
Summary: 5 Stars
We've only had the game a week, but we're loving it. We bought it as this year's game to try out at the holidays. Husband and I wanted to see if it was as good as advertised, so we began playing with just the two of us. Hey, it's fun as a two player game, especially if you and your S.O. can come to concensus by convincing the other that your card is the best. Great debate game in that regard. When we absolutely cannot agree, we toss the hand. Have played it with the kids (22 and 21) and 5 year old granddaughter. Granddaugher is on my team. Everyone gives me extra time to explain what the cards say and their meaning, and then she and I whisper and strategize on which one to play. She loves it and has been asking for it on game night. (She's getting the Jr. version for Christmas and we know she's going to love it.). Another very nice thing is it's easy to set up (actually, no setup required) and quick to play a hand. Youngest son (21) lives with us and if he's got a quick ten minutes or so, he'll bring it out and say "let's play a hand". He and his girlfriend stayed an hour past their scheduled departure time because someone always said "just one more hand". Our extended family is into Balderdash (acutally, Beyond Balderdash these days), but when I roll this out at the holidays, I expect it to be a new champion (Balderdash has been the leader for years). Highly, highly recommended, especially if you love thinking games.Customer Review: Infinite fun
Summary: 5 Stars
Apples to Apples is great!! The game is literally self regenerating. Each time you play the game is different. Lots of yelling, debating, convincing, and laughing. You learn a lot about people through this game.
Everyone is dealt seven red apple cards which contain a word. The word could be a name like Madonna, a place like New York, a thing like Iron, or a personal thing like "My Hair". The goal is to win the green apple cards, but the key to getting the green apple card is by best describing the green apple card with one of your red cards.
For example: A reader reads a green apple card reading, "soft", then everyone proceeds to pick out one of their red cards and place it face down. The reader then picks up all the red cards that are face down on the table and then reads them aloud: Card 1 "Feathers", card 2 "babies", card 3 "wind", card 4 "my skin". The reader has to choose which of these he feels is best defined as "soft" and the whole time you have players around the table making arguements for or against certain cards to try and sway the reader.
It is loads of fun, and its new every time by virtue of the combinations of cards as well as the players. Since readers are different every time, opinions are different every time and so is your chances of your word being chosen. Not to mention that Apples to Apples also makes refills just in case.
Customer Review: If you haven't played this game, you're just not playing games
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the absolute best party games ever. I bought A2A at a local game shop on a whim years ago. My Amazon purchase was the big set for a friend and his family. Be prepared for hours of fun.
Here is the general idea:
First, get a group of people wanting some social fun
Second, pass our the Noun cards (they aren't called that, but that's what they are)
Third, start with someone called the "jusdge" who picks up an adjective card (again, not what they are called, but it's what they are)
Fourth, the judge tosses the card into the center and other players pick a noun that embodies the card the judge tossed out.
The person who is the round's "judge" tosses out a card that is a descriptor. Let's say that the word is "Hot." Other players look through their collection of cards to find a word that embodies "hot." One player might toss in "Marylin Monrow" and another might toss in "The Sun." Which will the judge choose? Maybe your comments might influece the outcome. Go wild!
This is a game learned by new players in less than a minute. If it's not on your game shelf, it should be.
Note: we play with a local rule that's similar to musical chairs: The judge rejects the last entry on the table. This encourages fast play. If all players play a card quickly, the judge has the option to accept all entries.