EnoughAbout theWeather!
Easy questions, hard questions, and a few we’ll pay you to answer.
- 3 to 10 players
- Ages 12 and up
- One evening
- Bring scissors
Four piles.
One of them pays.
Easy
Light questions. Favorites, would-you-rathers, what you got up to this year.
What’s your favorite thing to do on a snow day?
Hard
Questions that take more thought. Still nothing personal at stake.
If you could only keep one possession, what would it be?
- Pays $1 to $5
Seriously?
The sincere ones. Every card in this pile carries a dollar value.
What are you most proud of?
Ask others
You don’t answer this one. You ask it of somebody else at the table.
What was dating like before smartphones?
How it’s played
Eight “rules”.
Write the questions
Part of the game, not preparation for it. Sort them into the four piles as you go, and put a dollar value on each Seriously? card. Start from ours if you like.
Print the deck
Any length. There is no correct number of cards.
The youngest players drive
At our table that’s the teens. They run the deck all evening, so the rules below call them the drivers.
Pick a pile, take the top card
The four piles sit face down. The driver reaches for one, takes the top card and reads it out. They choose the pile, not the question.
Earn your way to Seriously?
Answer an Easy or a Hard question first. No opening on a money question.
Answer it, or ask it
Easy, Hard and Seriously? cards are answered by the player who drew them. An Ask others card gets pointed at somebody else, and once they have answered it opens to the table, so anyone who wants to answer it can.
Pass as often as you like
Put it back and draw another. No forfeit, no penalty.
Play until the deck runs out
However many cards you wrote, that’s the evening. No score, everybody wins!
$1–$5Printed on the card
The money
Only Seriously? cards carry money, and the amount is printed on the card. An adult banks the whole game.
Pass on a card and you don’t collect, which is all passing costs. When you settle up is your business. We do it at the end of the night.
Make your own deck
Rule one, in practice. The deck is a two-column CSV (pile name, then question) run through Flashy, which lays it out as a double-sided PDF you can print at home and cut apart. Pick the 20-per-sheet grid for card-game proportions.
Easy,What is your favorite color?
Hard,What is your dream vacation?
Seriously?,What are you most proud of? $3
Ask others,What was dating like before smartphones?The pile names are recognised from the text itself, so there’s no setting to change: write Easy, Hard, Seriously? and Ask others if you want to play it like we do.
Starter questions
Thirty-one of ours, across all four piles. Use them as they are, or write your own.