The Voting Game

Category	BxD Suggestion	Game Suggestion
Players	4 - 10	5-10
Age	17+	17+
Play Length	30+ minutes
Overall Rating	3.5 / 5
Replay-ability	3 / 5

Prerequisites:

• The Voting Game Board Game
• (Optional) Markers (Read the "Tips" Section)

Experience:

The voting game is great for friend and family groups since everyone has had different personal experiences with one another. With 160 question cards, there are countless question cards that can apply to more than one person. After playing this game, you get to learn so much more about other people, their stories with other players and what people think about you. There are some tame cards, and some more outrageous cards. It's fun to see the argument between people on who deserves to take the card. Some cards don't even apply to anyone, but the based off similar anecdotes, they "may apply". The downside to the game is that you can't really replay it if you have a core board game group that doesn't really change much. Since there are only 160 cards, if you and your core board game group finish going through all the cards, there will be no surprise on subsequent games. Maybe a few years down the line when new experiences change who deserves the card, then you may be able to replay as a group. An alternative, would be to replay it with a different set of friends/family that you have yet to play with. Additionally, redistributing the voting cards after each question card is given, is a pain and time consuming. Even with a few negatives, the game itself is pretty entertaining.

How to Play:

• Every player is assigned an identity card, numbered from 1 - 10, used to identify each other. 
• Every player gets voting cards, which is a hand of cards that contain all the numbers of the other players and not themselves.
• For example, there are 5 players. Player 1 is identified with the card identity card "1". Player 1 gets a hand of voting cards which contains numbers 2 - 5. (Excluding the voting card for "1", which is their own number, since they cannot vote for themselves).
• Player 2 gets a hand of voting cards which contains numbers 1 and 3 - 5. (Excluding the voting card for "2", which is their own number, since they cannot vote for themselves).
• Everyone takes turns to be the reader, which is the person who draws a card from the top of the deck and reads the description on the card.
• All the players, including the reader, vote for a player in the group that they think matches the description of the card using the voting cards. The votes are placed face down and shuffled. 
• The reader then flips over the cards and sorts them by the number on it.
• Every player who was voted for, guesses who chose them. No points are earned for this, but it will be fun to see who they think voted for them.
• The player with the most votes gets the description card. In case of a tie, the reader of the card decides who to give the card to among the players with the most votes.
• The voting cards are given back to the original people who put them in.
• The reader then changes to the person to their left, clockwise.
• The game continues until someone gets 6 voting cards. There isn't really a "winner" or "loser". It's more like everyone loses after they find out what they are "really" like. 

Tips: 

• Make the game easier by using an object, any object, as a marker for the reader, the current person who is reading the card. And when the reader changes, move the object marker to the new reader.

Pros:

• It's a fun game to get to know your friends and family more since personal details and stories come out. And you get to see what others think about you, through the cards you receive.

Cons:

• The voting cards become a bit of a mess since it needs to be distributed back to the people who originally put them in.