An entrepreneur created the game Trumped Up Cards: The World's Biggest Deck, based on the popular game Cards Against Humanity. Here's a sneak peek at the game.
SAN FRANCISCO — Call it Cards Against Trump.
Silicon Valley entrepreneur Reid Hoffman has created a card game to roast the Republican presidential nominee. The tag line to "Trumped Up Cards: The World's Biggest Deck:" "This is a game. Democracy isn't."
The multi-player card game ("where players need really big hands to win") is similar to Cards Against Humanity (the popular pastime for "horrible people"). In this case, the horribleness is all aimed at Donald Trump.
Hoffman, one of the sharper Silicon Valley critics of Trump's politics, says it was inspired by the biting political satire of The Daily Show and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
"Trumped Up Cards are for free-speech advocates, fans of due process and equal protection, immigrants yearning to breathe free, and native-born patriots who believe our diversity and inclusiveness make us stronger (but who draw the line at Russian hackers)," Hoffman, co-founder and chairman of LinkedIn, wrote in a Medium post. "It’s also for people who know the correct definition of 'sarcasm,' people who understand that while President Obama found Osama bin Laden he did not found ISIS, and anyone else who shows their commitment to America’s values through their actions, not just their baseball caps."
According to technology news outlet Back Channel, the player who proclaims he or she has the highest net worth gets to go first and gets to be the card evaluating officer or CEO. The CEO picks a blue card and reads it to the other players. Example: According to Trump, the government can take away your home, but not your guns or ______. Players then respond with a white card with answers such as "glamping with Muammar Gaddafi" or "annual ‘undocumented gardeners’ hunt on the White House Lawn.”) A third category of cards is the Trump card. These can be played in combination with a white card. For example: "Play the woman card!" which allows the player to dismiss any female player's answer for no reason.
Each of the blue cards has one of four letters at the bottom, and the first player to spell "vote" wins. But if the rest of the players can spell veto then they can block the win. Alternatively the game ends when "the majority of the players grow so depressed at the prospect of a real Trump presidency that they just start quietly sobbing. In this scenario, the player who possesses the most Blue Cards at this point is the winner."
The card game is popular in Silicon Valley, where support for Trump is as small as Marco Rubio claimed Trump's hands are. So Hoffman decided to make it more widely available. You can get your own deck at TrumpedUpCards.com for $20.16 (get it?). Profits, says Hoffman, will go to charities "already working to keep America great."
In the frequently asked questions section of the web site, Hoffman anticipates criticism that he's stacking the deck against Trump.
"You're just part of the dishonest, left-wing card game industry. How come you didn't make a Hillary version?" reads the question. "How come you didn't make a Hillary version?"
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