The Spinner that dictates how points are scored that round. If there would have been some more creative scoring options that would have opened up the game a bit more.
The spinner is the only thing that could have used some improvements in that it feels dated (think Chutes and Ladders style spinner).
What I really appreciate about the cards is that they have the scenarios read upright from both directions. The quality of the cards is very similar to a deck of regular playing cards and the cardboard tokens are a good thickness that as long as they don’t get wet or bent they should hold up well over time. What contributes to the simplicity of the game is that there aren’t too many pieces needed so with less pieces means less complexities. Components You can read the cards from either side. However, the fact that the five cards drawn on each turn get paired with different cards every time means that ranking is different every time you play.įor example, you may think “Break Up a Dog Fight” is considered “Very Bad” compared to being “Trapped In a Ring With a Raging Bull” but if paired with “Performing a Front Flip Off a High Balance Beam” you may think the dog fight card is more along the lines of “Horrible”. Doing some quick math, there are 225 cards, and at 5 cards per round, for 12 rounds that means you could go through all the cards by the middle of the third game. You may go through the cards fairly quickly after a few playthroughs. Does the game have replayability? These are all of the cards included in The Worst-Case Scenario Card Game. The average duration is not stated on the box so know that if you play the game the way it was intended, there are twelve rounds (or ten rounds for 5 players) and at five minutes per round (dealing scenario cards, reading them, thinking them through and laying down your ranking, then revealing everyone’s guesses, and discussing why those ranks) that comes out to around an hour-long in length. This goes on until all the rounds are completed and the one with the largest score wins. The round ends and the next player to the left is now the victim and the play is repeated. Whoever matches your answers gets points and as the victim, you also get those points on every matched answer. You flip all the tokens and any matches score points. The other players will also place their colored chips, that are the same ranking as yours, in the order they believe you will rank the scenarios from bad to worst. The other players lay their tokens face-down making their best guess on where the victim will rank each. You place the chips where you say that they fall in the order you think those cards are from only “Bad” all the way up to “The Worst”. Place them face down, so no one can see, at the bottom of each card. You then have your five colored chips that are ranked 1-5 (and are labeled from “Bad”, “Very Bad”, “Awful”, “Horrible”, and “The Worst”).
The player whose turn it is (the “victim”) lays their ranking face-down. Once you’ve read all five cards, you have to think about which one to you is the least bad scenario, and so on, all the way until you know which one is the worst. Once that’s determined you flip over five cards and everyone reads the five different scenarios on the table. This relies on luck as some scoring options are higher than others. You first flick the spinner that determines how that round is scored. On your turn, you are designated the “victim” since the scoring of that round is based on your judgment. The game starts by choosing who has the worst survival skills to go first. Those who would enjoy this game also like games such as Apples to Apples, Dixit, Cards Against Humanity, or What Do You Meme?Īnyone who isn’t a fan of party games or only likes more complex game mechanics. However, the maximum number of players is 6 which could be considered on the smaller side for typical party games. The Worst-Case Scenario Card Game may have the words Card Game in the title but it definitely falls into the party game genre. Who will enjoy The Worst-Case Scenario Card Game ? In the directions it states that the game was invented in 2020 and they acknowledge the irony in that millions of people could easily argue that 2020 itself could be considered a worst-case scenario. The Worst Case Scenario Card Game is based on The New York Times bestseller, The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook, by Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht. THE WORST-CASE SCENARIO CARD GAME - All New Family/Party Game | 0% Trivia, 100% Humorous Fun
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