In the past decade, we have seen a boom in the popularity of tabletop games. Card games especially have started filling the shelves of stores around the world. These games are usually quick to play and can give consumers hours of entertainment. Along with games like Cards Against Humanity, we have also seen a rise in smaller releases that are innovative and fun. Many interesting card games have even popped up on crowdfunding sites only to find massive amounts of support from backers around the world. Below we are taking a look at the ten weirdest card games to come out in the last decade.
10 Exploding Kittens
Many of these games titles will let you know exactly what they are about. Exploding Kittens, for example, is about not being blown up by a cat. You and your friends take turns drawing cards until you find an exploding kitten. Depending on your hand, you may be able to diffuse the kitten in order to save yourself.
The object of the game is to have the rest of the players blow-up while you stay safe. Unfortunately, the game has tons of cards that can turn the flow of battle by letting other players tamper with your turns.
9 Unstable Unicorns
Unstable Unicorns grants the players’ wish of amassing an army of magical horses to defeat your foes. In order to win the game, you must be the first to create your army of seven unicorns. To do so, you have to use every trick in your hands to give other players a hard time. You can even use cards to get rid of the other player’s unicorns.
Since release, Unstable Unicorns has had a plethora of expansions, including dragon and apocalypse deck expansions, to mix the game up even further.
8 Bears Vs Babies
After the success of Exploding Kittens, the creators were inspired to create a debatably weirder card game. Bears vs Babies is all about building your very own monster to fight hoards of terrible babies. You have to focus on trying to build yourself up, while at the same time destroying the other player’s monsters or sending them into forceful battles against powerful babies.
To win the game, you simply have to eat the most babies before the draw pile runs out of cards. The game is heavily strategy based so that even players that draw bad can have a chance of winning.
7 You’ve Got Crabs
You’ve Got Crabs is a game that you have to play in teams. Players work to get four cards of a kind. Once they have a matching set, they must use their secret single to get their partner to scream, “you’ve got crabs.” At that point, you will gain one point, the team with the most points at the end of the game wins.
If the enemy team figures out your signal, though, they can scream the phrase to make you lose a point. This interesting game even has an expansion that comes with a toy crab claw.
6 Goat Lords
If crabs and kittens weren’t enough, then you can become a goat lord. Goat Lord is a card game that focuses on strategy. You have to match goat cards in order to build up your herd. The goat pairs will have different points, and you can duel other players to try and take their goats away.
The game also allows the players to use cards in order to make the other lose goats. The player with the biggest herd at the end of the game is dubbed the goat lord.
5 Gyrating Hamsters
Gyrating Hamsters is an easy to understand card game for players of all ages. The game allows players to make a clan of hamsters and go to battle. There are different types of hamsters with various abilities that will activate when you have a certain number of cards in your horde. You can also choose to use attack hamsters to assault other players.
To spice things up even more, the game has chaos cards that can help turn the battle in the blink of an eye. Chaos cards force you to play them the moment they are drawn, making them a true wild card.
4 Butts in Space
Butts in Space lets us step away from waring animals for a bit to enjoy butts. The game even has a back story, about an evil butt that robbed your ship of all it’s precious toilet paper. In the game, you can play as one of four butts on a quest to gather the most toilet paper. You can draw cards that let your butt where underwear for extra protection or even use evil butts to steal other player’s cards.
If you are the player hoarding the most toilet paper at the end, then you win.
3 Joking Hazard
Joking Hazard is a game for adults made by the team behind Cyanide and Happiness. The game is all about making terrible comics. Players flip a card from the deck, and then a judge adds in the second part of the comic. Players then compete to place the funniest card down. The judge will then pick the player that had the funniest ending to the comic. There are 360 cards, including some that let you write in your own ending.
The game was inspired by the brand’s random comic generator, and set out to capture the same quirkiness in a card game.
2 Llamas Unleashed
Llamas Unleashed is based on the same formula as Unstable Unicorns. Instead of magical horses, you are given an arsenal of barnyard animals to collect, the first player to seven animals wins the game. You will have to learn to sabotage your opponents by using magic cards to your advantage.
The game even has instant cards that will force you to play them as soon as they’re drawn. This can turn the game around in a heartbeat or ruin the perfect strategy you were working hard on.
1 Taco Vs Burrito
Taco vs Burrito is a card game about making the wildest foods you can imagine. Players draw cards until the deck runs out, and the player with the best ingredients will win the game. The game allows players to place ingredients into their opponent’s pile to make their food less tasty. If the other player can’t block them, then they could end up losing points.
The game does have action cards that are designed to shake things up. If a player draws the cards like the health inspector, then they have to throw away all their ingredients.
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