Cards Against Humanity
It's from 2011, when you were 5.
- Maker
- Cards Against Humanity LLC
- Type
- Party card game (adult)
- Debuted
- 2011
- Note
- 'A party game for horrible people'
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About
As of 2026, it's 15 years old.
Cards Against Humanity crowd-funded its way to infamy in 2011, billing itself as 'a party game for horrible people.' The format is pure Apples to Apples — fill in a blank or answer a prompt with cards from your hand — but the answers are deliberately crude, offensive, and not safe for grandma, and a rotating judge picks the most outrageously funny combination.
It became a viral smash and a fixture of a certain era of adult game nights, as famous for its anti-corporate publicity stunts (selling literal boxes of nothing, digging a giant hole for no reason) as for the game itself. Whether it's actually funny or just shocking is an eternal debate.
Crude, viral, and proudly tasteless, Cards Against Humanity is the party game that took a wholesome format, made it filthy, and became a cultural phenomenon.
