23 Fun Card Games For Adults

Card games for adults include way more possibilities for fun than you might imagine. We at Peerspace love helping people make lasting memories together. So we’ve collected 23 of our favorite adult card games that are sure to put a smile on everyone’s face at your next game night party!

1. Laugh at all the terrible answers by playing Cards Against Humanity

No list of the best card games for adults would be complete without Cards Against Humanity. It’s the one card game that you’ll genuinely feel guilty for laughing along with. The rules are simple: each turn, one person presents a question card and everyone else responds with an answer card. Rest assured, things get weird quickly.

2. Ask dangerous questions with Truth or Drink

Truth or Drink is a fantastic way to deepen your relationships with family and friends. It’s also fun for date night, icebreakers, and literally any other time you want to get to know a person. Each person takes turns asking questions of the other ranging from silly to intimate. The other person can either answer or take a drink. Even a non-answer invites all kinds of questions!

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3. Test your Internet wit with What Do You Meme

How strong is your viral meme game? Bring social media memes to the tabletop with a few rounds of What Do You Meme! If your Instagram hashtag or Facebook meme knowledge rocks, you’ll have an easier time with it, especially since most of the memes in this game were made popular within the past few years.

4. Invite family and close friends for a game of We’re Not Really Strangers

Fans of Truth or Drink will also like We’re Not Really Strangers. The game gets more intimate more quickly, however. Plus there’s no drinking. That makes this card game a better fit for families, friends, and couples!

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5. Play Bad People and know what they really think of you

Have you ever really wanted to know what your friends think of you? Well, now you can with Bad People, a refreshingly honest card game for adults! Each turn, a question card is read aloud and everyone votes on which person in the group best fits the answer. Bad People is a game for family and besties, though, since the questions can cause a bit of cringe if you aren’t already great friends.

6. Babble for fun with Incohearent

Intentionally butcher the English language with Incohearent! In this card game, one person holds up a card with a messy phrase. Everyone else has to try and decode the phrase before the timer goes off for points. Can you figure out “Dale hers whiffed” as being “Taylor Swift?” If so, then Incoherent might be right for you!

7. Get rid of all your cards in Fk. The Game

Fk. The Game is one of the most unusual card games for adults around! It exploits the Stroop Effect, baffling your brain with each reveal by showing a bunch of conflicting information that makes it hard to decide on the right action. The idea is to simply get rid of all of your cards yet if you take the wrong action by not thinking quickly, you’ll end up adding to your pile!

8. Make awfully good comics with Joking Hazard

If you’re familiar with the webcomic Cyanide and Happiness then you can guess the kind of humor (very much not kid-friendly) Joking Hazard has. As a definitely-for-adults card game, though, it’s fantastic! Three or more players try to create terribly hilarious comics using their panels and word cards. 

9. Ferret out fascists in Secret Hitler

Secret Hitler is a strategy-based card game where players are divided into liberals and fascists. The liberals are trying to get laws passed and retain order. While the fascists – who no one actually knows the identity of – are trying to get fascist policies passed and get Hitler elected before the game ends.

10. Speak good words with Poetry for Neanderthals

Speak good or head get club! Poetry for Neanderthals is an easy game to pick up that gets hilarious quickly. One person has a word they have to describe using only single-syllable words. Your team has to guess the word in 60 seconds to get points. If you slip up and use more than a single syllable, though, the other team gets to bop you with a big (inflatable) club!

11. Make monsters in Bears vs Babies

Made by the makers of Exploding Kittens and Poetry for Neanderthals, Bears vs Babies is a fast 20-minute game for 2-5 players. You build monsters that eat babies to get stronger. It’s hilarious, absurd, and exactly the kind of game you’d expect from the Exploding Kittens team.

12. Play Unstable Unicorns and try to collect them all

Try and collect seven different kinds of magical unicorns in your stable. All the while hindering your opponents from doing the same. Unstable Unicorns come with all kinds of powers to advance your game. Plus you have extra action cards you can use to boost your team or put the breaks on your frenemies! 

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13. Get to know your besties better with Disturbed Friends

Disturbed Friends is another game for bros and besties because it can get real quickly. Each round, a judge has to read out a question card and the other players try to guess their answer. You’ll get to know each other better in the most hilarious possible ways as the night goes on!

14. Make funny text chats with New Phone, Who Dis?

New Phone, Who Dis? is a modern, tech-savvy wordplay game where everyone competes to make hilarious text and reply chains. Each turn, a single player places an inbox card that the others have to add to using their best response cards. The judge then selects the winning card for points to that player!

15. Say something crazy with 5 Second Rule, Uncensored

Think quickly with 5 Second Rule! You’re presented with a card that has to name three things that fit the prompt. Since you only have 5 seconds to spit out an answer, things are guaranteed to get hilarious quickly.

16. Upgrade your beer pong game with Fear Pong

Fear Pong is an upgrade to the classic Beer Pong. Landing a ball inside someone’s cup means they have to either drink or take on one of the challenge cards hidden under the cup. You might end up wearing a homemade diaper or telling everyone all of your red flags as a partner. Or you might just drink instead!

17. Race to slap the card with Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza

Looking for a fun card game for adults that you can also bring the kids into? Try a few rounds of Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza! The rules are simple: each turn a player flips a card while saying “taco,” “cat,” “goat,” “cheese,” or “pizza.” If the guessed word matches the card then everyone races to slap a hand on the card. The last person to do so has to take every card in the stack!

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18. Say the first thing that comes to mind with Brain Freeze

See what pops out of people’s mouths with Brain Freeze, a card game for adults that gets to the heart of everyone quickly. The fastest answers are what wins the game so you don’t have much time to think. Hopefully, that doesn’t mean you’ll say something you regret!

19. Take turns in the Hot Seat

How well do you know the person in the Hot Seat? This is a card game for families and friends who have the best chance of guessing the answers. Each person has a turn sitting in the Hot Seat, where they play a question card like “If I had an island, what would I name it?” Next, everyone anonymously answers the question. The answers are all read aloud and everyone has to then guess which one is the Hot Seat player’s real answer.

20. Never Have I Ever: the playing card edition

Never Have I Ever is a game most of us have played as teens. Continue the fun with this amazing card game for adults! Get to know family and friends that much better as you pry their deepest secrets from them.

21. Dodge flying food with Throw Throw Burrito

A card game that lets you throw things at people?! That’s what Throw Throw Burrito has to offer! You’ll be trying to match 3 cards of a kind to get points and trigger actions and dodging squishy burritos in brawls or free-for-alls.

22. Own the worst cards in If You Had To…

Convince the judge that you have the worst cards with If You Had To…This is a “Would You Rather” game with hilarious scenarios to contemplate. The game is quick to pick up and the first person to get five points for the worst answers wins!

23. Get lit with These Cards Will Get You Drunk

Card-based drinking games are some of our favorites and These Cards Will Get You Drunk might be the simplest of them all. The rules are simple: go around in a circle and have each person take turns drawing a card. They then read out the instructions, which determine what’s about to happen and who has to drink.

Card games for adults: conclusion

Seen enough yet? These 23 card games for adults include everything from wordplay to making absurd monsters. If you’re planning a game night, then you have plenty of ideas to keep the fun going all night long. If you’ve found Peerspace to be a great resource for game night ideas then check out our party venues near you for a place to host the event!

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