Pyramid Pick: Apples to Apples

Pyramid Pick

Apples to Apples

Published by Out of the Box Games

Designed by Matt Kirby and Mark Osterhaus

$19.95

Apples to Apples, the second game from Out of the Box (the first was Bosworth), is a party game consisting of a big batch of cards with words and phrases on them - the players score points with them by trying to figure out how other people will think. Yes, I can hear you thinking "Gosh, how original" all the way over here. However, Apples to Apples is a very good party game, with a number of twists that make it stand out from the run-of-the-mill games that glut this area of the market.

There are two kinds of cards in the game -- 324 Red Apples, which are nouns, and 108 Green Apples, which are adjectives (all featuring art by Pyramid's very own John Kovalic). In addition to the cards, you get a plastic dealing shoe -- that's it for the components, making for a nice compact game. Green Apples tend to be fairly broad but specific enough to be interesting (e.g., "Luscious," "Confounding"), while Red Apples can be general ("bones"), specific ("Marilyn Monroe," "Berlin 1945"), or personal ("Your High School Prom"). Everyone keeps a hand of seven Red Apples from which to play, and Green Apples are used one at a time by the judge. The judge position passes around the table -- when it's your turn to be judge, you put aside your hand, take a Green Apple card, and put it in the center of the table while announcing what it is. Everyone else has to select a Red Apple card from his . . .

This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.



Article publication date: May 28, 1999

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