Oh, My Word...Slash!

At Free Comic Book Day this year, I was swamped and pretty exhausted and someone brought me a new card game as a gift. I did not get their name, sadly. I wasn’t sure it sounded like my kind of thing…it was called SLASH, Romance WIthout Borders.

Anyway, several weeks later, my son is home for the weekend and we decided to play tabletop games today, and we cracked open Slash because the rules page is about three paragraphs long, so we could be up and playing quickly. My son was skeptical, because the game uses fanfic and ‘shipping jargon throughout. 

Holy crap, this game is HILARIOUS. There’s a huge deck of characters from literature, history, film, comics, games and more. Everyone gets ten cards. They take it in turns to be the ‘matchmaker,’ and one player lays down a character card, and the rest all have to pick the best possible character from their hands to make an OTP, or One True Pairing. 

It’s ridiculously funny. If you don’t win a round, you can challenge the judge by explaining why YOUR OTP should wine, and we ended up with winners like Annie WIlkes (from MISERY) and Gimil together, and Keisha and Darth Vader. As a bonus, Red Sonja and Carol Danvers are playable cards, along with lots more great geek characters.

REALLY highly recommended quick, simply, funny party game, playable with three people or more, no set up or complex rules at all. We laughed our asses off and played three straight games in a row.

It’s by GAMES BY PLAY DATE at

gamesbyplaydate.com

I don’t have any connection with these people, we just thought the game was a riot, and I think you, will too!

http://slashcg.com/