Game Night – Apples to Apples
Apples to Apples
Designers: Matthew Kirby, Mark Alan Osterhaus
Manufacturer: Mattel
Artist: John Kovalic
Year: 2008
Players: 4 - 10
Time: 20 - 30 minutes
Ages: 12 and up
As I was looking through the list of games I've talked about, I realized that I've never mentioned Apples to Apples. It's probably because I have kind of a love/hate relationship with the game.
It's a great game when you have a bunch of people. It consists of two decks of cards, Things/People and Descriptions. Each turn, the current referee draws a Description from the face-down deck and players try to quickly pick, from the cards in their hands, the Things that best match that Description. We actually play that the slowest player doesn't get to submit a Thing that round. Players get to argue for the cards of their choice, then he referee chooses the Thing that appeals most and awards the card to the player who played it....