Pocket PC Life
Geoffrey Moehl
November 2003
USA

I recently played this game with a group of 12 people made up of both males and females. Once I explained the rules that we would each take turns being the judge deciding what card best matches the category for that turn, the cards started to fly. Since there is a rule to speed up placing cards, (last one in has to take back their card) I found it difficult to take the time needed to think about what would be the funniest match. Often I was left with extra cards at the end of the turn, and no opportunity to influence the judge's decision. Quite a different experience compared to playing the scaled down version in Iowa (See previous posted Apples to Apples review). Luckily I was not playing to win, since it is often considered bad manners to have the host win all the rounds. Instead, I was asked to be the card dealer and tie breaker when time was running short. That is when the game went into sudden death, narrowing the semi-finalists down from four to two. To make the game more enjoyable for those in the final round, I spoke of the pros and cons of why a particular answer card should be the winner. Then I had the group (minus the two semi-finalists) vote on the winning card. What a blast!

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