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Monikers is pretty much Cards Against Humanity meets charades

Monikers is a party card game that compels you to utter ribald sentence fragments while testing your knowledge of pop culture, like all great party card games do. And to act out “Syphilis” in charades, which sounds like the most unfortunate card draw ever, especially if you have syphilis. The way it works is in three rounds: they can more or less be thought of as Taboo, a stricter version of Taboo, and charades, with a deck that ranges from the perverse to the obscure. The game is currently raising funds on Kickstarter and looks like a hoot.
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This Disney-themed tarot deck would melt Aleister Crowley’s black heart

In tarot, you have two extremes. You have grim-looking cards covered in foreboding occult symbols that will rub out your soul. And you have this rosy deck of Disneyania that reminds you of all your favorite animated features from Walt’s golden years. The Disney Major Arcana, created by the very talented Dmorte on Deviant Art, serves as a reminder that there was pretty weird stuff going on in old Disney flicks. Still, maybe it’s just me, but a Hanged Man card that has Goofy dangling by his heels after what was likely a comical picnicking incident doesn’t strike one with…
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Rabbit meets and woos woman, beautiful card game ensues

As is so often the case with falling in love, the first attraction to Poupée de Son is physical: “I could see myself with this good-looking person; I could see myself playing this card game gorgeously illustrated with rabbits and brides.”  But that’s just the start. This attractive game you were just looking to one-night-stand evolves into a complicated narrative where you are laying down cards about relationships and getting all tangled up in the messy emotions of another player. I almost forgot if I was writing about the game or my life there. This contest of seduction between woman…
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Expos are so much better with this deck-building business card game

Your de facto business card is a no-frills presentation of your name and number and Twitter handle, so potential business partners can contact you later on. But if you are a game designer among an expo of game designers, it might be advantageous to flaunt your chops by designing an entire game that fits on a 1.5×3″ piece of paper.  That’s what Manuel Correia decided to do for EGX Rezzed, as he blogged about on Gamasutra today. The difficulty was how to make a fun game whose instructions were straightforward enough to fit on a card and that could be…