Kid’s Against Maturity – a funny card game | Review

[Ad- gifted product] It’s no secret that we play a lot of board games at our home. Dann and I have a regular board game night, with all of our friends, every other week. The children, seeing and being surrounded by our board game collection, have taken an interest in board games, finding family favorites like the Minecraft Board Game and Flip Out, a game about flipping pancakes. So, when we went to Smyth’s to find Kid’s Against Maturity, they were delighted, and eager to point out all of the board games from Smyth’s that we have already played.

Kid’s Against Maturity is meant to be a kid-friendly version of Cards Against Humanity – a game that I am sure you and your friends have played at some point in time. The gameplay itself is quite simple – each player has a hand of cards which contain words or phrases. Taking turns, one of you turns the blue card in the middle over, revealing a sentence or two with some BLANKS in it. Each player, apart from the person that turned over the blue card, then needs to place a funny card from their hand down onto the table, face down, and the person who is not placing must read all the answers once they are in and pick whichever one was the funniest. The first person to 5 cards, or whoever has the most blue cards at the end of the time you want to play, is the winner.

This game is one of those games that has a lot of toilet humor within it. Our household isn’t hugely into toilet humor, with mainly Kai laughing at jokes about poop, but as such they didn’t know quite a few of the references. Many of the brand-related cards where actually American brands, which furthered their uncertainty with the cards, so we ended up going through all of the word cards and quickly culling any that we felt they wouldn’t understand or that Dann didn’t think was appropriate for them. As there are so many cards, even though we culled some, there were more than enough to play for hours and not need to re-shuffle the deck.

Once we were into Kid’s Against Maturity, it was a complete toss up on what card was selected as the funniest – sometimes Amelia would pick something serious as the “funniest” because it made the most sense, other times Kai would start laughing so loud at one card, that he had read before others, and just go with that instantly. It became a game that primarily the children were good at, as our minds didn’t seem to work like ours, and therefore we weren’t funny enough to get them to choose ours! Seeing Kai and Amelia interacting with each other, playing, and laughing was a fun time though. I can see this card game being great for teenagers as well, as none of it is really inappropriate, but most teenagers have humor that really match the game. I am sure this box will be taken off the shelf for sleepovers in the future!

It’s also worth mentioning that the box itself, designed to be like Cards against Humanity, actually has all of the rules printed into the lid of the box – so there is no booklet or anything to keep track of. The children can instead, just open the box and read how to play, setting up the game themselves. It’s a great size to travel with, especially with the rules written in the box, and would be great for camping and playing in long car rides!

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