Oh, come on, you want to play “Apples to Apples” again! We just played that last week. Are we going to play that every time we get together? [?] find yourself thinking this? Have you never heard of “Apples to Apples?” Either way this episode is for you.

“Apples to Apples” is a party game that came out a few years ago from “Out of the Box.” It’s a very popular game. A lot of people like it. A lot of people like it a lot, to the point of playing it a lot. And so a number of [?] have gotten tired of “Apples to Apples.” But, in this episode I’m going to talk about this game, “Apples to Apples,” and I’m going to talk about another choice you’ve got called “Attribute.”

“Attribute” came out in Germany and now there’s an English version [?] and it shares some of the same characteristics of “Apples to Apples,” but it’s a bit more of a, well, gamers’ game, if you would. So, if you’ve been playing with a group that has “Apples to Apples” and likes it a lot, I would suggest going out and getting “Attribute” and giving it a [?], if you want something to, well, take it up, oh, a notch or so, one band more.

Coming up, I’m going to talk about “Apples to Apples” and “Attribute” this week on “Board Games with Scott.”

Hi There. Welcome to “Board Games with Scott.” This is a [?] video series where I take a board game, explain it, describe it and briefly review it to give you an idea if it’s something you might want to [?]. This week I’m actually going to be talking about two different games that are fairly similar. I’m talking about “Apples to Apples” and talking about “Attribute.”

First, I’ll talk about “Apples to Apples.” “Apples to Apples” is a game for 4 to 10 players on the box, although you could play it with more if you want to. It’s a popular party game. There’s lots of [?] out for it. You can even print out some of your own cards if you want to do that. It’s made by “Out of the Box Publishing.” And they’ve got small boxes. They’ve got versions for kids. They have big crates. There’s all sorts of [?] of this game.

The game comes with two types of cards: green cards and red cards. The green cards have [?] on them. They’re things like “sappy” and “creative” and “idiotic” and “boisterous.” So they are descriptive words on the green cards. The red cards, on the other hand, have nouns or [?] nouns: people, places, things, events, so things like “New Orleans,” “Attack on Pearl Harbor,” “Rappers,” “the San Andreas Fault.” Things like that.

And what will happen is one player will be the judge. And the judge will [?] a green card. They’ll just take the top one, so they might pull, for example, “filthy.” Now, everyone as fast as they can looks through their hand of red cards and picks the one that’s closest to "filthy" and throws it in the middle of the table. The judge then collects all the red cards and reads them [?]. So we might say alright “filthy” is the word you’re trying to match, so our choices are: “remote controls.” Yes they are kind of “filthy” - and it can be fun, [?], when you’re the judge, to kind of chat about the things - “filthy” “remote controls.” We have “filthy” “Dennis Rodman,” well, ok, that’s kind of the image he likes to present, we have those “filthy” “piranha” - not that good, sometimes you’re [?] just throwing out something junky because, well, it’s in your hand and you want to get rid of it. - We have “filthy” lawyers. And we have, hey, “filthy” “my hair.” - My hair’s not “filthy.” I [?] showered this morning.

So, the judge then will take up the red cards and decide which one that the judge likes the best. So, I might say if I’m the judge. So what is the most filthy? Well, I’m going to say, that, well I’m going to say remote controls are the most filthy. I mean all those people [?] at them and bleeping and blopping. Eww!

So anyway, the person who put in “remote controls” then gets the green card and that counts as a point. And the object of the game is to get a certain number of these green cards based upon how many players there are. So that’s the basic way it goes. After you take your turn as [?], you then pass the deck of cards to the player on your left. And that player will then be the judge, pull the next green card, everyone will pull a red card and it’ll go on.

Now, there’s a couple other [?] that make it kind of exciting. First, if you have a bunch of people, 6 or more players, then the last person to play their card does not get to play their card. So, that adds kind of a speed element. Now, what I find is that with new people I [?] to not use that rule the first time just because it freaks them out. So everyone gets to play their card, but once we’ve played it a few times, then you go ahead and introduce that. So everyone as quickly as they can, throws their card down, and that’s another role of the judge, is that the judge has to watch to see who is the last person to play their card out in the middle of the table. That person has to take their card back and it doesn’t [?].

With 4 or 5 players then the way it works is people can play one or two cards each and then only the first 4 red cards that hit the table count. Now, if you’re playing two cards you have to play them one at a time. And again the judge has to watch and once there’s four cards in the [?], then that’s it.

Now again I find that I don’t tend to play with that rule. It just makes it a little more complex. I play it just like with the bigger groups. Everyone throws out one card, the [?] card is out. Some people play with the variant where they actually add in one card from the deck just to make things a little wacky and to see how often that the deck beats all the other players. But again, just makes it a little more convoluted.

So, that’s the basic game. The judge calls out a green card, everyone [?] down a red card, the judge picks which ones they like the best, that person gets a point and you continue.

So, one of the [?] with the game is you want to figure out what the judge likes because you want to make them pick yours. So some people, like I know one judge that anything related to the Beatles they will pick over anything else so any time you get a card related to the Beatles you hang on to it and when that judge goes you throw out the Beatles. No [?] what the word is, they’re going to pick it. Other people like me tend to pick weird things. Some people like the most logical answer. Other people will choose a [?] and so part of this game is reading what other people are going to like and throwing out the cards that they will be the most interested in but you are limited with the cards you got in your hand and sometimes, you know, when you have a [?] that’s “the mafia,” “Antarctica,” “funerals” and “New Orleans,” you know it’s, it might not be too easy to match “fluffy” if that’s the word, for example.

So, that’s the basics of “Apples to Apples.”