By Kiley Garrett
Are you and your friends bored? Do you guys have nothing to do on Saturday night, but want to hang out? Do you like card and board games? Well you’re in luck, because that’s exactly what board games are for! Now, the question you have to ask yourself is, what board game? Well you’re in even more luck, because here are 5 games you can play with friends (you just have to buy them first).
Throw Throw Burrito – $25
This game is all the fun of a food fight with none of the mess (ok, it’s only half the fun of a food fight; the mess is the other half of the fun). Throw Throw Burrito is the perfect game for 2-6 friends to have a good time with squishy burritos.
In this card game/dodgeball crossover, players try to match cards as fast as possible, and when someone throws down a burrito card, players grab a burrito and fight with them. It’s unclear if there is a winner to this game, but according to a review by Light Junkie on Amazon, “Let me be clear: This…game…kicks…BURRITO.”
New Phone, Who Dis? – $20
This game is much like the classic Cards Against Humanity—keep reading if you don’t know what that is—with texts, and according to Ashley’s review of the game on Amazon, it’s a bit tamer. This game has many other fantastic reviews on Amazon and so far it has 4.4 stars out of 5.
Incohearent – $20
A variant of the “What Do You Meme” line of card games, Incohearent is a 17 plus decoding game with three categories: kinky, party and pop culture.
In Incohearent, players take turns judging their peers as everyone tries to decode the incoherent phrase on the front of the card and the first player to say the correct phrase wins the round and the card. The player with the most cards at the end of the game wins.
Secret Hitler – $35
This game is a bit like Mafia – if Mafia were set in 1930s Germany and instead of killing people the mafia instead tried to get elected into office and pass fascist laws.
In Secret Hitler, five to ten players are split between two teams: the liberals and the fascists. One of the players on the fascist team gets to play Hitler and the role of President is rotated between players each round. The president nominates a Chancellor,and together they can choose to enact laws, either liberal or fascist, and when five liberal laws or six fascist laws are enacted, the respective team wins.
Cards Against Humanity – $20
You know we couldn’t get away with not putting Cards Against Humanity somewhere in this list. This raunchy and sometimes offensive game relies on two things: surprise factor and knowing your audience.
For everyone who hasn’t played Cards Against Humanity, i.e. everyone who’s been living underneath a rock since 2011, the game consists of white answer cards and black prompt cards. The goal is to amuse that rounds judge enough to win the black card. Depending on how you’re playing, you can play until you run out of black cards and count who has the most to determine the winner, or play until one person wins seven rounds, but let’s be honest, we’re all winners when it comes to this game.
Games are a great way to spice up any friend or family get together, and this is a great list of basics that almost anyone would enjoy. All of these games are an Amazon search away, and all prices and reviews featured in this article are from the amazon.com listings of these games.
*Editors Note: This article was submitted for publication in early March. However, due to Spring Break as well all the changes that happened suddenly from the COVID-19 outbreak. We are barely getting around to posting. Thank you.
