Exploding Kittens Poetry for Neanderthals NSFW Edition Card Games for Adults and Teens- Fun Party Games

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Best friends bring Grok joy. Grok want Stonehenge too. Grok must have it all. Only Silent will not do.

The Poet will describe their chosen word/phrase to their teammate. They can describe it in any way they want, but they need to follow a few rules.

Setup

Otherwise you can choose to try for the three point answer. If at any point you commit a penalty, you will lose the point you earned from the correctly guessed word. Three Point Words Each team will add up the points earned from the cards placed on the three sections of their team’s side of the Team Point Slate. The team that scores the most points wins Poetry for Neanderthals. At the end of the game these are the cards that each team scored. Team Mad scored nine points from their three point cards, four points from their one point cards, and negative three points from the negative one point cards. They scored a total of ten points in the game. Team Glad scored twelve points from their three point cards, four points from their one point cards, and negative three points from their negative one point cards. They scored thirteen points. As Team Glad scored more points, they have won the game. Grok’s Words of Love and Sad Everyone on your team can shout out words at the same time when trying to guess the word or phrase. Throughout the game you will total the points that you earn from each round. The total number of points you score in the game is compared to the chart below to determine how well you did. Reciting the poem has no impact on the scoring or outcome of the game. Therefore it is completely optional. Variant Games

That’s about the extent of the rules – take turns, give clues, get bonked on the head by an inflatable club, repeat. But while the game is beautiful when it works – teammates getting on the right wavelength, clues given in seamless caveman prose – the real joy of Poetry for Neanderthals comes when things go wrong. Saying a word on the card? Bonk! Giving solid clues, but nobody getting it, so you – in frustration – resort to saying “inside” or “toilet” in frustration? Bonk! And the game goes on. Here's a completely optional (but (Un) thing to try at the end of the game. Grok S Words of Love and Sad Cards Next, discard all the used Poetry Cards from both slates into the box, rotate each player's role, and start the next round. The Poet also chooses which side of the cards (gray or orange) that the players will use during the game. All of the players will use this side of the card for the entire game.If your teammates are struggling to guess the correct word/phrase, you can choose to skip the card. Should you choose to skip the card you will tell your teammates “skip”. You will place the card in the “Oops” (-1 point) section of the Poet Point Slate. The current Poet doesn’t think they can describe Tutor to their teammates. Instead of wasting time trying to describe it, they decide to skip the card and move onto the next one. They will place the skipped card in the Oops! section and will lose a point. Drawing A New Card This story is also an example of game developers (some who spent most of their careers in video games) using their ingenuity to design around a big problem: We can’t hand physical cards to each other during online calls. Lee spoke about this challenge with Theresa Duringer of Temple Gates Games at our recent GamesBeat Summit 2020 event. Take a "Grok's Words of Love and Sad" Card at random and decide which of your three chosen cards to insert into the three blanks (you can use either the 1-point words or the 3-point phrases). Should you successfully get your teammates to guess the three point word, you will place the card on the corresponding section of the Poet Point Slate. The Poet got their teammates to guess the three point word. They will place the card in the three point section of the Poet Point Slate. Isle of Man, Isle of Wight, Northern Ireland and the Scottish Highlands) may take longer to reach you.

You may not say a word or part of a word that appears on the current Poetry card. The one exception to this is if one of your teammates say it first. Once one of your teammates says the word (even if it is more than one syllable), the Poet is then allowed to say the word themselves.You can immediately go for the three point phrase and ignore giving clues for the one point word. If your teammates end up providing the one point answer, you can tell them that they guessed the right word for one point. You can then use the one point word as part of the clue for the three point phrase. Skipping A Card Whilst we will do everything we can to meet the delivery times above, there may be factors outside of our control and we cannot guarantee delivery within this time frame.

During each round the Poet and Guesser try to score as many points as they can. At the end of the round you will add up the total number of points that the Poet and Guesser earned. These points will be added to the both players’ (Poet and Guesser) past scoring totals. If the Poet thinks that they were penalized incorrectly, they will shout out “Wait!”. The timer is set down on its side to temporarily stop it. All of the players will then decide as a group whether the punishment is valid for what happened in the game. The players will deal with the Poetry Card in a way agreed to by the players. While factories have started to resume manufacturing, the supply chain was still disrupted because many of the ports where the game was shipped were disrupted. During this time, Exploding Kittens had to figure out how to create the initial run of Poetry for Neanderthals. One of the challenges was that you had to have a long inflatable club to play the game while social distancing (when people can do it in person). So the company had to figure out how to manufacture the inflatable club and fit it in a box that was small enough to easily ship.The winning team chooses three of the their favorite words/phrases that they guessed during the game. They will then randomly draw one of the Grok’s Words of Love and Sad Cards. They will choose how to place the three words/phrases they chose into the blanks on the card. One of the players will then recite the poem to the other team. Team Glad choose these three cards from those they scored during the game. They will end up creating the following poem. Once you have a poet the timer is turned and they the poet starts giving clues to their team. The catch being that you can only use one syllable words - you are a cave person after all! If you use a word of more than one syllable the other teams can club you with the inflatable ‘NO’ club and you will lose points. You are allowed to say correct words once your team has said them though. So if the clue was sore eye and your team said ‘eye’ you could then start saying it too. Form two teams ( Team Glad and Team Mad ) and give each team their Point Slate (see image below). It's okay if one team has an extra player. The Poet chooses which side of the Poetry Cards all players will read from (gray or orange) for the whole game. At the end of a turn, both teams add up the points they've earned on a piece of paper where each player's individual scores are kept. (The Poet and Guesser earn the same number of points each round).