#21 - Human Cards

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Human Cards

Want to do something funny this Labor Day weekend? Last year I co-led a course at the USC, School of Cinema-Television, Interactive Media Department called "Experiments in Interactivity I." For the final project, the students were to create a "mass multi-player game" that included the campus. They decided to create Giant Cards, The cards were so giant that you'd get maybe one person per card. So that'd be fun, wouldn't it? Playing Giant Cards on Labor Day? All you'd need is a giant deck of cards.

Human Cards, the subject of this week's occasional newsletter and FunCast, is another game for the masses, also played with cards, and also played with one person per card. Human Cards, a Funny Game, is in fact significantly reminiscent of the massive multiplayfulness of Giant Cards, also a Funny Game, in terms of the actual experience of actual funnyness, yet clearly different, in terms of card-size. Human Cards, you see, uses regular, standard, everyday playing cards. Thus the distinction.

Basically, you get 52 or so people together. You give everyone a card - any card will do. Then you ask everyone to shuffle. Then you cut the deck. And then you play, maybe, War.

So now that it's Labor Day weekend, take a deck of cards with you wherever you go. You just never know when you'll find yourself in a crowd of people who are desperate for a Funny Game to play.

Click on FunCast to hear how to play the game.

Or on Human Cards to read the article.