What is fascinating? Peanuts, music, beach balls, or mushrooms? According to my friend, mushrooms are. How was such a conclusion made? With the help of the classic card game, Apples to Apples, of course. How it is played is a green card with an adjective is placed face up in the middle of the table.

Players have five red cards with a noun on them, and they must place one card face down in the center that they believe matches the description on the green card. One player will choose which red card matches the green, and whoever put the winning card down gets the green card. This pattern will continue until a player collects more than five green cards.

Apples to Apples is an innocent and fun game that originally came out in 1999. Playing it is a great way to preserve the ‘90s in this funky generation, but this game will not be played much longer compared to its newer, ruder,  and cruder competitor: Cards Against Humanity.

Cards Against Humanity is like Apples to Apples but even more vulgar and inappropriate. The way they are played is very similar. What is different? Almost everything. The card colors are black and white and the content is vulgar. The game is, as quoted by its website, “as despicable and awkward as you and your friends.”

I’ve been told to play it, I’ve read the reviews, seen it played online, and heard the rumors on how fun it is. For me, personally- as dirty as my mind is- it is too dirty. I would stay away from it. Which game is appropriate yet fun? Apples to Apples.

I would stay away from Cards Against Humanity because the answers tread on dangerous waters. It is racist, uses strong language, covers diseases, and much worse. For this game you would have to find the right group of friends and take the “no offense” excuse like an adult, because this game really is for adults.

The only reason I would play it is when my curiosity got the best of me and because it contains one more similarity with Apple to Apples. This awful game involves communication. If there is one thing I love, it is a game that involves communication. But personally, for me, I would choose Apples to Apples for its clean content and classic touch.