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The New Yorker: Cartoon Caption Game box art
2006 Ranked #15,491

The New Yorker: Cartoon Caption Game

A party writing game has players create captions for cartoons while a judge tries to identify each author. Points reward both accurate guesses and successfully fooling others, making wit and misdirection work together.

Humor Party Game Paper-and-Pencil

Players

3-6

Play time

Not listed

Age

12+

Complexity

1.14/5

Rating

6.19

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

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Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How does it play?

Each player writes a caption to a cartoon from New Yorker magazine. Whomever is "it" this turn guesses who wrote each one.

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Each player writes a caption to a cartoon from New Yorker magazine. Whomever is "it" this turn guesses who wrote each one. Players score for guessing right and for fooling others. Like Balderdash, only much funnier! from the publisher: Based on The New Yorker’s popular Cartoon Caption Contest comes a game of immeasurable creativity, unmatched wit, and uproarious humor…and you are responsible for, well, most of it. If a picture speaks a thousand words, surely you can come up with a few of your own in this hilarious game of ‘which player wrote which caption’. And don’t worry about not being funny. In a game like this, even the ‘bad’ captions are part of the fun!

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Play and group

Players
3–6
Best with
4
Play time
45 min
Age
12+
Complexity
1.1/5
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Credits

Designers

1
Eric Poses

Publishers

1
All Things Equal, Inc.

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