Joking Hazard cover
2016BGG rank #3,511

Joking Hazard

by (Uncredited) · Brain Games

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Players3–10
Time30–90m
ComplexityLight
Age18+

About the game

What is Joking Hazard?

From the creators of Cyanide & Happiness comes a card game where players compete to finish an awful comic strip. The creators said: "Someone on the Internet once told us that making stick figure comics is easy as hell, and that we were ugly and stupid. They were right on all counts. So, after crying for a few hours, we created the Random Comic Generator which since its inception in 2014 has entertained millions with its computer-generated comedy. After a few weeks of playing with the Random Comic Generator, we started to wonder if its hundreds of random panels might lend themselves to a card game, where you compete against your friends to finish a comic with a funny punchline. So we printed out all of the RCG panels and started playing with them." Draw 7 cards. The deck plays the first card, select a Judge to play the second, then everyone selects a third card to create a three panel comic strip. The Judge picks a winner. The game includes a deck of 350 unique panel cards - that’s 15.4 million combinations of comics!

How it plays

Mechanics

Hand ManagementPlayer JudgeSimultaneous Action Selection

On the shelf

Categories

Card GameComic Book / StripHumorMature / AdultParty Game

Questions players ask

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  • How do setup and the first turn work in Joking Hazard?
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