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Cards Against Humanity: 'a party game for horrible people' you can now play online

The question card is drawn: "What are my parents hiding from me?" Rapid card shuffling is heard around the table.

Answers: "Raptor attacks." "Michelle Obama's arms." "An Oedipus complex." and "A zesty breakfast burrito."

Which answer wins? Only the Cards Against Humanity question czar can tell you.

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Cards Against Humanity, the adult version of Apples to Apples, has players try to find the "best" answer to the question card. Now, what makes the best answer is up to the question czar, the player who drew the question card. "Best" to them may be the funniest, or what actually answers the question logically or more often than not, it is the most inappropriate answer to the question.

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With answer cards that include "Racially-biased SAT questions," "Waking up half naked in a Denny's parking lot," "Tasteful sideboob," and many more answers that I probably can't get past my editors, you imagine how crazy and fun the card game can be especially when alcohol or honestly even a healthy dose of sugar is added.

The downside to CAH has been that it is a physical card game. But no longer!

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One intrepid fan took advantage of Cards Against Humanity being birthed into the card world under a Creative Commons license, which allows anyone to make a copy of the game, and created an online app for Cards Against Humanity cleverly titled Cards Against Originality.

Dawson Whitfield, a Toronto, Canada-based UI/UX designer and front-end developer, built the web app to solve a rather simple problem for any serious card game player:

"I built CAO [Cards Against Originality] after too many times forgetting my CAH deck," Whitfield said in an email. "Once the idea to build an app for CAH was in my head, I kept wanting to play with my friends at the bar/office/friends' houses. After a couple of weeks of this, I had to build it."

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The gameplay is smooth. Players can initiate a game among their friends by sending a custom invite link to your game via email or social media. Then each can see their cards on their own device screen, just as if they were holding a hand of physical cards.

The FAQ page notes that right now, the game is intended to be played with people in the same room, just on devices rather than with physical cards. As Whitfield notes, he designed Cards Against Originality to be a replacement for the physical cards when he forgot them.

The game is exponentially more fun when you can see the expressions of everyone playing - the ability to be somewhat horrible people in a safe space has the power to bring people together.

Whitfield said creating CAO took him approximately three weeks of long days to build the application. "I think that's why no one has really done it," he said. "The toughest part was trying to make a website interact like an app, on all devices. If I did a subpar job, I would've done nothing but insult the original game."

Whitfield's favorite question and answer cards?

"Ooo that's a tough question. I'd have to go with 'During sex, I like to think about _____.' + 'My humps.'"

For those die-hard Cards Against Humanity Fans wondering: Whitfield indeed did take the time to include all five expansion packs so your horrible fun can go on for hours. (Maybe send the chap a thank you, or he is also accepting donations on the website for his efforts.) [Editor's Note: Unlike the base CAH game, the expansion decks are not available as free downloads from cardsagainsthumanity.com. However, CAH co-creator Max Temkin has already expressed support for CAO, so it's possible the powers that be are OK with their inclusion.]

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So, its Friday, bookmark Cards Against Originality on your computer, phone or tablet and make the horrendous hilarity that is Cards Against Humanity part of your weekend. Happy playing!