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Joking Hazard is a Cyanide and Happiness card game.

Description[]

From the creators of Cyanide & Happiness comes a card game where players compete to finish a Comic strip

Rules[]

  • 3-10 bad people
  • Age 18+ (im)mature content
  • 15 min - whenever your face hurts from laughing
Joking Hazards 3peoples

Greenshirt, Orangeshirt & Purpleshirt playing Joking Hazard

Main Rules[]

Everyone draws 7 cards. Place the rest in a deck, face down on the table. Pick the first judge through non-violent means.

The deck plays first. Flip the Top card off the deck. This is the starter panel.

The judge plays second, by placing a card from their hand on either side of the starter panel, creating a two panel setup.

The other players play a card, face down, at the end of the setup to create the punchline. The judge shuffles the punchlines and puts them face down one at a time, and then picks their favorite. The winning player takes their card back for scorekeeping.

Everyone draws another card (you should always have 7). Going clockwise, the next person becomes judge, and so one. The first player to 3 points is the winner, or whatever score you wanna go to (we're not your mom).

Red Cards[]

When a card has a red border, it can only be played as a third panel. If the deck plays a red card, the judge does not play a second panel. Instead, everyone else plays the two panel setup, and the judge picks their favorite. Whoever wins gets two points instead of one. Bonus!

Alternative Rules[]

Joking Hazard is very opened-ended, and we definitely suggest tweaking the rules with your friends. Here are some of our favorite alternative ways to play:

  • Jerk Mode: Same as the default rules, except when the deck plays a red card, instead of it being a bonus round, the judge keeps the red card as a free point, and forces someone else to lose a point. It's like a ticking bomb of unfairness.
  • Marathon: Instead of 3 points winning the game, keep playing until the deck runs out. Whoever has the most points at that time wins. If it's a tie, the lowest scoring player becomes judge and plays two panels, and everyone who is tied plays the punchline.
  • Neverending Story: Remove all the red cards from the deck. Everyone takes 10 cards. Going clockwise, each player adds a panel, creating one super long comic. The rest of the players can reject if it doesn't make sense, trade any card from your hand for two additional cards, and skip your turn. First player to run out of cards wins.

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Different Card Sets[]

Currently there are 965 normal cards and 30 textless Make Your Own Joke cards:

  • Main Deck = 350 cards
  • KickStarter Thank You Bonus Pack = 20 cards
  • Enlarged Box Bonus Pack = 10 cards
  • Toking Hazard Booster Pack = 50 cards
  • Stroking Hazard Booster Pack = 50 cards
  • Blast From The Past Booster Pack = 50 cards
  • Deck Enhancement #1 Booster Pack = 100 cards
  • Deck Enhancement #2 Booster Pack = 100 cards
  • Deck Enhancement #3 Booster Pack = 100 cards
  • Deck Enhancement #4 Booster Pack = 100 cards
  • Trial By Trolley Bonus Pack = 20 cards
  • Master Dater Bonus Pack = 10 cards
  • Freakpocalypse Part 1: Hall Pass to Hell Bonus Pack = 5 cards
  • Main Deck Make Your Own Jokes Blank Cards = 20 cards
  • Enlarged Box Make Your Own Jokes Blank Cards = 10 cards

Trivia[]

  • The panels found in the game are very similar (even identical) to the panels found in the Random comic generator.
  • This is the second time Explosm hosted a Kickstarter, the first was for The Cyanide & Happiness Show's Season 1.
  • For making donations to the Kickstarter, contributors are rewarded with a copy of the game booster packs that increase depending on the size of the contribution.
  • The Cyanide & Happiness: Freakpocalypse collector's edition includes exclusive cards, that make references to certain moments in the video game.
  • As KickStarter $1000 pledge you could get 3 customised cards made. Nine of these sets were made totalling 27 unique cards.

References[]

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