Joking Hazard
Players: 3–10 • Ages: 18+ • Play time: 30–90 min.
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 seven cards. The deck plays the first card, select a Judge to play the second, and 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!
Master Dater
Players: 3–6 • Ages: 13+ • Play time: 20–45 min.
In Master Dater, the messed-up dating game, players take turns being the sexy single. Other players then combine heads and bodies to make messed-up dates to pander to three unusual interests of the single. The single then awards the player or players who best argued their case with heart, love, and flame cards. When a player has one of each and five total, that player becomes the Master Dater and wins the game.
Sosig
Players: 2–4 • Ages: 10+ • Play time: 10–15 min.
Sosig is a quick, family-friendly, highly interactive tile-placement game. Sosig arrives as a pocket-sized family-friendly option to the Joking Hazard roster, focusing on competitively creating the ideal Sosig to defeat the other players.
In Sosig, players will draft sosig-piece tiles and add them to their board in order to build various sosigs that meet order requirements and gain them points. You can also gain extra points by winning the award tile at the end. Players will attempt to fulfill orders, mess up opponents’ sosigs, and try to arrange the most points on their board—as well as avoiding incomplete sosigs so as not to gain negative points. Once the last card in one of the decks is played, the game is over, and the player with the most points wins!
Hoddog
Heads Will Roll
Players: 2–10 • Ages: 6+ • Play time: 10–20 min.
Everyone knows dragons love hoarding gold in their caves and laying waste to any would-be intruders. It turns out dragons also have designed their own game using the leftovers…
To play, take turns rolling a fistful of pieces out across the table and flicking your Shield through the scattered Skulls to earn (or lose) points. Hit the treasure chest to bank those points and add them to your total. First player to reach 21 points wins. The game uses most of the same basic rules as Dragoon: Heads Will Roll but has some additions, changes, different physical components, and new art. If you dig Dragoon: Heads Will Roll you’ll be way into this.