With themes ranging from irreverent comics to memes, the best card games for adults are designed to meet every friend group’s interest.
Shopping We only recommend products we love and that we think you will, too. We may receive a portion of sales from products purchased from this article, which was written by our Commerce team. Gone are the days of family-friendly rounds of UNO, where your only backlash against a skip card was playing a wild plus four and changing the color to yellow. Now the game aisle is filled with the best card games for adults to play over a glass — or three — of Pinot Grigio. Cards Against Humanity sparked the revolution in cruder, slightly offensive, and NSFW games when it hit the market in 2011. Naturally, the adult version of Apples to Apples quickly became a best-seller as a game both college students and their parents would enjoy playing — although not necessarily together in one room. As a result, the offerings of obscene, and typically rude, card games on the market continued to expand. Now, the marketplace is flooded with adult card games, and choosing between them is actually a difficult feat. With themes ranging from irreverent comics to memes, there are a plethora of (at times) inappropriate card games designed to meet every friend group’s interest. Thankfully, Amazon reviewers leave tons of feedback on their purchases to give an indication of which games will keep you laughing all night and which games you’ll never want to play again. With that in mind, I compiled the best card games for adults currently on Amazon. Keep scrolling for some of the most popular card games for adults, below. Create your own LOL-worthy memes with the What Do You Meme? card game, which has over 28,000 reviews and comes recommended by a Commerce Editor. A different photo is selected for each round, and players match one of their caption cards to the photo. The winner is chosen by a rotating judge, so it helps to know each player’s unique sense of humor. According to one reviewer: “I played this game with a group of friends for the first time this past weekend and we had a BLAST. The memes are great, the card captions are even better and we spent the entire time laughing. The game is inappropriate for younger audiences but is hilarious if you’re old enough to play.” Perhaps the most bizarrely titled game on this list, Exploding Kittens is the most-backed game in Kickstarter history and has sold 8 million copies. In this twist on Russian roulette, you draw cards, and — if you draw an Exploding Kitten — you’re out of the game. Of course, you can avoid this fate if you have a «defuse» card, or you can outrun danger altogether by using your cards to skip turns and go at other players. According to one reviewer: » I love everything about this game. From the Exploding Kittens, to defusing said kittens, to NOPE-ing people’s cards, I’ve played this for many an hour and I never get tired of it.» The Metagame card deck may only contain 200 culture cards and 100 opinion cards, but it’s enough to provide hours of fun with six unique games. Designed to get groups of people sharing their thoughts on the most important debates of our time, the game can be played with up to 33 players. It covers topics like media, art, fashion, and entertainment in rounds that force you to think fast and act strategically. According to one reviewer: » I bought this as a gift for a friend last Christmas, and have now borrowed it from her so often that I should just buy my own. It’s a blast, and is safe for all-ages play (although some of the cultural references will need to be explained to kiddos). The variations of game play are clear and super fun.» Whether you already own Cards Against Humanity or not, you’ll want to snag the Green Box expansion for your next game night get-together. It may be marketed as an expansion pack, but it can be played on its own, too. It introduces 300 totally new cards to the heinous game. To play, one judge selects a black card with fill-in-the-blanks that the rest of the players attempt to pair with a white description card. According to one reviewer: «I love this game! I’ve introduced it to so many of my friends. It’s a party game for horrible people. I haven’t had a game where someone who hasn’t nearly peed their pants from laughing so hard.» From the makers of What Do You Meme? comes this popular card game where players compete to guess what the gibberish means. A rotating judge selects one card with a phrase only they can see. The rest of the players see gibberish and have to guess what the phrase is. The first one to guess wins a point, and this game is full of fun adult phrases. According to one reviewer: «Cards against humanity meets mad gab!! This is a must have in your game repertoire. With the categories Party, Pop Culture, and Kinky you will enjoy non stop laughs and your friends will never want to leave your house!» You’re bound to scream a bad word or two while trying to compete in this feisty card game, where the only goal is to ditch your cards. Designed to make your brain smarter — despite forcing you to scream profanities — it comes with a set of four complicated rules created to trick your brain. During gameplay, you play cards from your deck and try to recall the rules as quickly as possible.
