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This is my favorite game of the year so far. It's just about the quickest game I've ever seen, from the moment you open the box to the moment you start playing. Two players get cards with people on them, like Gandhi and Frank Sinatra. Then you flip an action card such as snowboarding or basket weaving, and the players make arguments for who would win. It is as fun as fun gets. We played a ten-person game at the National Puzzlers' League convention, and people wouldn't leave until we'd finished the entire box. Give it a try.
Mike
You too can reenact the classic Angel-Spike argument: Who would win a fight between an astronaut and a caveman? The debate from "A Hole in the World":
SPIKE: It's b$+*#@#s, Angel! It's your brand of b$#!%%%s from the first to last.
ANGEL: No, you can't ever see the big picture. You can't see any picture!
SPIKE: I am talking about something primal. Right? Savagery. Brutal animal instinct.
ANGEL: And that wins out every time with you. You know, the human race has evolved, Spike!
SPIKE: Oh, into a bunch of namby-pamby, self-analyzing wankers who could never hope to—
ANGEL: We're bigger. We're smarter. Plus, there's a thing called teamwork, not to mention the superstitious terror of your pure aggressors!
SPIKE: You just want it to be the way you want it to be.
ANGEL: (yelling) It's not about what I want!
WESLEY: (arriving) Sorry. Is this something we should all be discussing?
ANGEL: (embarrassed) No.
WESLEY: It just...sounds a little serious.
ANGEL: It was mostly...theoretical. We...
SPIKE: We were just working out a b— Look, if cavemen and astronauts got into a fight, who would win?
(he crosses his arms and looks expectantly at Wes)
WESLEY: Ah. You've been yelling at each other for 40 minutes about this?
(they both look embarrassed. Wesley considers...)
WESLEY: Do the astronauts have weapons?
ANGEL & SPIKE: (simultaneously) No.
Remember: this could be you!
