APPLES to APPLES® PARTY BOX The Game of Hilarious Comparisons!

We played this party card game at a family function. It works well when there are several people. I gave it a 4 for fun, because it is a card game, which is maybe less fun than say...a computer game. I gave it a 3 for educational value, because the point of the game is fun, not learning...however learning will happen in spite of the game. I only gave it a 3 for durability, because the cards could possibly become lost or damaged in the same manner that any other card came cards would. They're not made out of anything more durable than ordinary laminated card stock.

Overall this is a really fun game for anyone who can read and has a fairly good working vocabulary. We compensated for the younger members who played with us by pairing an adult with very young readers.

I bought two of these and sent them to relatives so no one would have to carry the game from house to house.

Anyone who wants to shut off the TV and computer and have interactive games between PEOPLE will love this.

I love this game!! I am a teacher and can play with my students and with my friends. People's unique personalities come out so when you play with different groups the nature of the game changes. Fun!

Apples to Apples is great!! The game is literally self regenerating. Each time you play the game is different. Lots of yelling, debating, convincing, and laughing. You learn a lot about people through this game.

Everyone is dealt seven red apple cards which contain a word. The word could be a name like Madonna, a place like New York, a thing like Iron, or a personal thing like "My Hair". The goal is to win the green apple cards, but the key to getting the green apple card is by best describing the green apple card with one of your red cards.

For example: A reader reads a green apple card reading, "soft", then everyone proceeds to pick out one of their red cards and place it face down. The reader then picks up all the red cards that are face down on the table and then reads them aloud: Card 1 "Feathers", card 2 "babies", card 3 "wind", card 4 "my skin". The reader has to choose which of these he feels is best defined as "soft" and the whole time you have players around the table making arguements for or against certain cards to try and sway the reader.

It is loads of fun, and its new every time by virtue of the combinations of cards as well as the players. Since readers are different every time, opinions are different every time and so is your chances of your word being chosen. Not to mention that Apples to Apples also makes refills just in case.

This is a great game, easily learned and played by younger players. Since it's hard to know what a game is like without knowing how to play it, im going to try to explain it too you.
Its simple: each player has seven RED cards with names of people, places or things on them. A GREEN card is randomly picked from a pile and set on the table: each GREEN CARD has a characteristic of an object or person, such as "Graceful" "Wild" "Neat" "Ancient", to name a few. Each person has to pick the RED card (out of their seven cards) that best matches with the GREEN card on the table, like the "pushups" red card would fit well with the "exhausting" green card, etc. Once everyone has placed one red card in the middle with the green card, a judge (assigned at the beginning of each round, so you take turns) picks the card that they think matches best, and the person that had that card gets a point. What makes this game fun is, like a previous reviewer said, is that there are no wrong answers, you can pick whatever you want. There also 5 or six variations to the game which can be VERY fun. May I warn you though, this game cannot be played with less than three players, and isn't really fun unless you have 5 or more, so bring friends over to try it out. I hope my review and explanation helped anyone considering buying it..

It's a good game to play with friends when you want to chit-chat at the same time. Not much thinking involved but lots of fun to learn how your friends think. Easy to learn even for the non-game player.