Kickstarter Game(s): Tabloids by Steve Jackson Games

[thewayne]

I designed a game much like this called Waste of Celluloid, where you design the worst/funniest movie headlines and tried to sell it to your fellow players. In Tabloids, you design the most outrageous tabloid headlines and the players vote for the best. The Kickstarter is fully funded, ends in 69 hours from this post, and can be yours for only $19 plus S&H.

But wait! There's more! For only another $30, you can also get....

The game Conspiracy Theory!

Steve Jackson Games are very well known for many, many games, like Car Wars, Gurps, Munchkin, but especially for Illuminati! Conspiracy Theory is sort of a combination of Illuminati and Cards Against Humanity. The player whose turn it is to be judge announces a card, such as "I no longer believe in (blank)" and the players go through their cards to fill in the blank, and the judge selects the winner. And they can use multiple cards to fill in the blank if they so desire.

In my ever so humble opinion, this would be a great combination with Cards Against Humanity...., just like Bards Dispense Profanity combines well with CAH.

I went ahead and bought both.

You can also pay more and get the Illuminati board game, but personally, I find it a bit tedious. I enjoyed it when I was younger, but I prefer funnier, faster games now that I am in my dotage.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjgames/tabloids-a-game-by-steve-jackson

Comments

[disneydream06]

I love board games, but don't have anybody to play with. :( :( :(
Hugs, Jon

[thewayne]

Yeah.  I always aim to purchase games that are designed for two players.  I'll give odds that if you looked, you could find a local or localish game store or club, but sometimes it's not easy getting accepted by a group.

[moxie_man]

Sounds like the short-lived Night of the Ill-Tempered Squirrel card game where you and the other players work to against each other to create the worst "B" horror film ever created. Each card has one to five stars. Title, actor, plot, etc. Cards are placed face-down on your playing mat or that of other players. When all places are filled, people flip over their cards reading'em off and adding-up the stars. Lowest score wins.

Sadly, I failed to obtain a copy before it went away. It was low cost as it was a pdf file. You had to print it off yourself.

[thewayne]

Now that sounds like fun!  Page at Board Game Geek: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1812/night-ill-tempered-squirrel/.  The two publishers listed, one page just has a splash screen, the other the last entry is four years ago.  You might be able to find a buy or trade on BGG if you really, really wanted a copy.