[Ad – Gifted Products] Every other week, we get some board games or card games and head to our local Geek Retreat on a Monday afternoon, to relax after schooling is done and play together. This time, it was Pundamental – the food and drink edition, which is a card game all about looking at cards and deciding what puns they are.
It’s sort of like Go Fish, in a way, where everyone gets a hand of cards. Some of these cards have phrases on them while others have pictures. It’s your job to decide what pun the pictures are and what words would match them. On your turn, you can ask another player if they have a pun based on either the word card in your hand or the pin you think you see from the pictures. They can then either hand you the card if they have it, or you must draw a card and discard down to five.
Pundamental continues until players have a pre-defined number of matches, making them the winner. I do feel that Pundamental feels like a game for an older audience, possibly even parents or grandparents who would quickly understand these puns and know what they could be related to. Don’t get me wrong, Robin, Amelia, Dann and I found them funny, but sometimes we got the puns completely wrong. Thankfully, there is a number in the bottom of the card’s corner, so you can refernece the number, but it’s not a lot of fun to only ask around the numbers themselves.
We did have fun with Pundamental as the card game that it was, but also had a lot of fun mixing up the cards, facing them all up, and trying to grab at cards that we thought we knew the puns of and then digging through and finding the match. There are a lot of cards within this game, maybe to many for a group of four, but I can see it working for a different group of people then ourselves.