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APPLES to APPLES PARTY BOX The Game of Hilarious Comparisons! from Mattel
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Minimum Age: 12 years
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Product Description Apples to Apples is the game of hilarious comparisons! It's as easy as "comparing apples to apples"... just open the box, deal the cards, and you're ready to play. Select the card from your hand that you think is best described by a card played by the judge. If the judge picks your card, you win that round. And everyone gets a chance to be the judge. Each round is filled with surprising and outrageous comparisons from a wide range of people, places, things and events. Includes over 1,000 cards.
Customer Reviews
A2A Posted 14 July 2008
I love this game!! I am a teacher and can play with my students and with my friends. People's unique personalities come out so when you play with different groups the nature of the game changes. Fun!
Infinite fun Posted 11 July 2008
Apples to Apples is great!! The game is literally self regenerating. Each time you play the game is different. Lots of yelling, debating, convincing, and laughing. You learn a lot about people through this game.
Everyone is dealt seven red apple cards which contain a word. The word could be a name like Madonna, a place like New York, a thing like Iron, or a personal thing like "My Hair". The goal is to win the green apple cards, but the key to getting the green apple card is by best describing the green apple card with one of your red cards.
For example: A reader reads a green apple card reading, "soft", then everyone proceeds to pick out one of their red cards and place it face down. The reader then picks up all the red cards that are face down on the table and then reads them aloud: Card 1 "Feathers", card 2 "babies", card 3 "wind", card 4 "my skin". The reader has to choose which of these he feels is best defined as "soft" and the whole time you have players around the table making arguements for or against certain cards to try and sway the reader.
It is loads of fun, and its new every time by virtue of the combinations of cards as well as the players. Since readers are different every time, opinions are different every time and so is your chances of your word being chosen. Not to mention that Apples to Apples also makes refills just in case.
Fun family and friends game Posted 25 June 2008
This is a great game, easily learned and played by younger players. Since it's hard to know what a game is like without knowing how to play it, im going to try to explain it too you.
Its simple: each player has seven RED cards with names of people, places or things on them. A GREEN card is randomly picked from a pile and set on the table: each GREEN CARD has a characteristic of an object or person, such as "Graceful" "Wild" "Neat" "Ancient", to name a few. Each person has to pick the RED card (out of their seven cards) that best matches with the GREEN card on the table, like the "pushups" red card would fit well with the "exhausting" green card, etc. Once everyone has placed one red card in the middle with the green card, a judge (assigned at the beginning of each round, so you take turns) picks the card that they think matches best, and the person that had that card gets a point. What makes this game fun is, like a previous reviewer said, is that there are no wrong answers, you can pick whatever you want. There also 5 or six variations to the game which can be VERY fun. May I warn you though, this game cannot be played with less than three players, and isn't really fun unless you have 5 or more, so bring friends over to try it out. I hope my review and explanation helped anyone considering buying it..
Fun & Games Posted 13 June 2008
It's a good game to play with friends when you want to chit-chat at the same time. Not much thinking involved but lots of fun to learn how your friends think. Easy to learn even for the non-game player.
Adult fun for all education levels Posted 12 June 2008
We've been playing this game for years and have 4 expansion sets. It's the first game to be suggested when friends are over because no one stresses out over it (no skill involved, no feeling stupid). It gets us talking and we just have a blast and laugh. We've created our own cards too.
We played this with a 10-12 year old boy who wasn't the best reader and he had some difficulty just by not knowing the older pop culture and historical things on the cards. Which became a great learning experience for him.
We have Apples to Apples Jr for our 7 year old daughter now and I can't wait to play it with her!
This is NOT a game for less than 3 people and I'd recommend it for at least 4 people. The larger the group, the more boisterous the game can get!
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