{"id":22293,"date":"2014-09-03T06:03:57","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T11:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=22293"},"modified":"2014-09-03T06:02:28","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T11:02:28","slug":"great-party-activity-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=22293","title":{"rendered":"Great Party Activity Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/celtic-cross-150x95.jpg\" alt=\"Celtic Cross\" width=\"150\" height=\"95\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>BoingBoing recently featured an <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2014\/06\/30\/the-card-game-we-couldnt-mak.html\">article<\/a> about the creation and marketing of a new card game called Slash, the object of which involves pairing up fictional characters.  That game sounds fun, but what caught my eye was something in the comments: The thread included several complaints about the game Cards Against Humanity and its playability seeming stale after a while.  Commenter snowmentality offered <a href=\"http:\/\/bbs.boingboing.net\/t\/the-card-game-we-couldnt-make-and-then-someone-else-did\/35982\/24\">this<\/a> solution:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You know what also works amazingly well? CAH tarot readings. A simple <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biddytarot.com\/how-to-read-the-celtic-cross-tarot-spread\/\">Celtic Cross tarot spread<\/a>, laid out with CAH cards: hours of party entertainment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well that&#8217;s just brilliant.<\/p>\n<p>For those not familiar with the game, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cards-Against-Humanity-LLC-CAHUS\/dp\/B004S8F7QM\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=shadmano-20&#038;qid=1404323402&#038;sr=8-1\" rel=\"nofollow\">Cards Against Humanity<\/a> is an irreverent card game in which players select their &#8220;answer&#8221; cards which best fit a &#8220;question&#8221; card.  (So, for the question &#8220;What are my parents hiding from me?&#8221; answers might <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/cardsagainsthumanity\/\">include<\/a> &#8220;Harry Potter erotica,&#8221; &#8220;Italians,&#8221; and &#8220;Grandma.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>So yes, I can definitely see the potential hilarity in having one&#8217;s &#8220;future&#8221; card in the tarot spread wind up as something like &#8220;Tentacle porn,&#8221; &#8220;Grave robbing,&#8221; or &#8220;Raptor attacks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CAH is a great party game anyway, and once you feel that you&#8217;ve exhausted its potential in its intended use, you can start all over again with this variation.  Good stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BoingBoing recently featured an article about the creation and marketing of a new card game called Slash, the object of which involves pairing up fictional characters. That game sounds fun, but what caught my eye was something in the comments: The thread included several complaints about the game Cards Against Humanity and its playability seeming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paint-it-black"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22293"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22346,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22293\/revisions\/22346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}