We spend a lot of time talking and thinking about how online communities work. If we’re going to make meaningful tools, plenty more people need to do this too.
We want to expand the conversation and involve people from all backgrounds in our work. So we made a card game.
It’s free, open source, and you can download it here.
Playingcards.io is the easiest way to get a game of Cards Against Humanity started online. The software is even simple enough for your grandparents to use, should you feel comfortable playing this. Cards Against Humanity Lab is the official site for CAH online experience. However, it’s not exactly social since you’re the only one playing. Here, the computer deals you a black card, and you have a selection of white cards to choose the funniest answer from. There’s also an option to say none of the cards on the screen are funny at all.
Downloads
PDF of the Card Fronts
PDF of the Card Backs
PDF of the game instructions
Buy a copy
We’ve made two pre-made editions available to buy at production cost.
Cards Against Community – Deluxe Edition – $22.99
(includes five sand timers, linen-textured cards)
Cards Against Community – Normal Edition – $11.99
(identical game, excludes the timers)
FAQ
How does it work?
It’s a game for 4-6 players, loosely based on Werewolf/Mafia. Each game takes about 20 minutes to play. Click here to download a PDF of the game instructions.
We’ve already taken it to conferences, events, parties. Please download or buy the cards, play the game among your friends and colleagues, and tell us how it goes!
Can I change the cards?
Yes! Change the rules, translate them into another language, add new cards! And why not code an online version? (We thought it might make a good bot on Slack, but don’t have the time to dedicate to it ourselves.)
Help us to make this better.
We used these fonts (all free):
Josefin Slab
Roboto Slab
Yanone Kaffeesatz
You can also visit our Github repo to submit pull requests on the rules and more.
If you play a game, do anything cool with the cards, have any suggestions, let us know! You can email us at coral@mozillafoundation.org or tweet at us @coralproject.
We’ll feature the best forks/updates/game photos on this page.
Who’s been playing it?
A lot of events and colleges! So far we’ve heard it’s been played at Ohio University, University of Michigan, American University, SND Makes, Foo Camp, and the Allied Media Conference. Have you played it somewhere? Let us know! (It helps with our funding reports.)
Is it connected to Cards Against Humanity? I love that game.
We love that game too. And no, it’s not connected to or affiliated with Cards Against Humanity LLC. We just loved the name. Consider it a tribute.
Credits
Everything in Cards Against Community is open source and available on an MIT Open Source License to be used as you wish, with the exception of The Coral Project logo, which is a trademark of the Mozilla Foundation, and the Trollface design, which is © Carlos Ramirez and is used in this context with permission. If you wish to make a commercial version of the game, Carlos Ramirez requires that you remove his design.
The game was created by Andrew Losowsky with help from Casey Middaugh. It was designed by Angel Colberg, and has been playtested at various events including FOO Camp, the New York Times and SNDMakes.
Happy playing!
© 2015, 2017 Mozilla Foundation
Current version: 1.2 Last updated September 22nd 2017
30 March 2020, 12:40
Up to six people can play Cards Against Humanity on Playingcards.io – and you can even set up a voice or video call for extra laughs.
Since we've all been staying at home during the coronavirus quarantine, everyone has had to find creative ways of keeping busy and staying in touch with loved ones.
From using Netflix Party to host group viewing sessions of your fave TV shows, or downloading the Houseparty app and hosting quizzes, families and friendship groups have been doing all sorts of wholesome stuff to make sure they keep in contact.
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But enough of that wholesome content for a sec because there's a now way for the not-so-wholesome grown ups amongst us to have some fun too.
Fancy playing Cards Against Humanity with your mates? Well, now you can. Online. For free. And here's how to do it...
How to play Cards Against Humanity online
Playingcards.io, which is an online card game website, has multiple different games that you can play. One of those games is Cards Against Humanity.
If you don't know what Cards Against Humanity is, here's a quick explainer: Cards Against Humanity is 'a party game for horrible people'. Each round, one player asks a question from a black card, and everyone else answers with their funniest – and often offensive – white card. It's very much a game for adults and definitely not one to play with your parents. Unless your parents have the same level of questionable humour as you.
Anyway, once you click into the game on the site, you'll be able to create a virtual playing room. The site will give you a link, which you then send to your friends so they can join the game.
Up to six players can join the game, and you can even set up a voice or video call too, to get the full experience.
Much like if you've ever played Scrabble as a group on an iPad, the site allows everyone to see the game, but only you can see the cards in your hand.
There's many different ways to play Cards Against Humanity, but here's the basics:
Players start by selecting 10 white cards from the pile and dragging them to the bottom of the screen. Here, you will be able to see all your answer options. After every round, you should always have 10 cards in your hand.
Each round, one person becomes the judge. That person will select a black card. The first judge can be chosen based on any random thing you as a group decide – like whoever went to the toilet last. (Yes, those are really the rules.)
Cards Against Quarantine Online
Once the judge has selected a black card, the other players will then choose their best white card, and drag it to the middle, ready to be judged.
The judge will then flip over those cards, read them out one by one and make their winning decision based on who was the funniest or most outrageous.
Cards Against Humanity Online Multiplayer With Friends
The winner of that round will then keep the black card. The person with the most black cards at the end of the game, wins!