Sara Estus – Week 2 Game Ideas

5 Ideas for games that can be played using cards:

• “Greater Purpose”

Each player has a card that has an item on it that has a common purpose. When each player (3-5) receives their card, they will not see it themselves, but all the other players will. One at a time, each player will try to explain to other players what their card is in front of them, without simplifying its purpose. An example: a butterfly, can be simply described as a flying creature, or you can say, it’s summer’s pollinator (See we can mistake it for a bee, but that’s the butterfly’s greater purpose)

• “Absolutely Not!”

(I don’t know how gambling games work, so leave me alone!) In this game, each player wants to attempt to get the amount of 21 in their hands, but the catch is that other players can go and either steal or give the other player a card. If the player they want to steal from doesn’t want to risk going too high or too low, they say, “Absolutely not” and then the player sitting next to them is now the one getting stolen from or they will receive a card.

• “Cards Against Humanity, but we let people who aren’t in the game play!”

Nothing is more fun, and possibly embarrassing than being caught with a raunchy card while playing cards against humanity by the unsuspecting person, so why not play the game, then when it’s your turn, you must run out into the hall and ask the first person you see to pick your card. *Bonus points if they think it’s funny or look at you like you’re an awful person.

• “Dixit, but it’s reskinned with our art”

We would either try to be so nice to each other, and go “oooh” or “ah” when seeing each other’s art, like seeing the cool stuff Reese comes with, or snicker and snide like the comments between Evan and Gideon when they argue about each other’s talents and who sucks more (you’re both great shut up) and we’d forget how to play the game, but in the end, it would be so fun to single handily describe each other’s art with single words

• “Bang!” but it is media arts-themed and it’s called “Collab!”

The characters are the professors from the media arts department, each having their taught skills, such as, Professor Ames’ talent is in game design, so when you play as his character, you can receive a bonus when you pick up a “collaboration card”, allowing you to collaborate with more than 1 player. (The collab card replaced the “Bang!” card because we don’t want our professors committing in mass murder of their colleagues) The goal of the game is to take out the player who is playing as “Finals week” because nothing hurts the artsy creators collaborative spark more than grading final exams!