Talk about a stacked deck!
A raunchy new card game created in Cobble Hill challenges players to predict which lewd and bizarre activities their friends might perform with a variety of pop culture figures, mythical creatures, and objects. The creators of the “Spank the Yeti” card game say they were inspired by the party game “f—, marry, kill,” but pushed to make the game as dirty as possible without being offensive. The game — now on shelves in eight Brooklyn stores — is not for the easily embarrassed, said one creator.
“It’s not for those who blush easily,” said Sara Farber, who designed the game with her husband Bryan Wilson. “We want people to chuckle the moment the cards are on the table. And I think it does a great job at bringing people together to create lasting, fun memories. There is nothing better when someone tells us, ‘Oh I remember mud wrestling Madonna,’ and can’t stop laughing as they’re remembering the crazy time they had playing the game.”
In each round of the risque game, one player — “the Yeti” — pairs up three action cards (verbs) with three object cards (people, creatures, and things), while the other players try to predict the Yeti’s answers. But instead of the traditional trio of having sexual relations, proposing marriage, or committing murder with various celebrities, the game suggests various wacky and sometimes filthy activities with a wide variety of subjects.
Players might guess, for example, that the Yeti would “tongue bathe” (action) “a coked-out unicorn” (object), “star in a buddy cop flick with” (action) “Jeff Goldblum” (object), and “f———” (action) “a jar of expired mayonnaise” (object). The real fun comes from players explaining the logic behind their choices, said Bryan.
“I think it’s the reasoning that’s so hilarious,” said Wilson. “Hearing people explain why they would make a skin suit out of Donald Trump, or shag on a shag rug, or milk Pocahontas — that’s where it gets really funny. The content is funny, but seeing what people do with it is where it gets even funnier.”
The Cobble Hill couple have also invented the game “Schmovie” — a card game in which players invent funny movie titles, produced through their company Galactic Sneeze. The company fuses their backgrounds — Wilson has worked in advertising and Farber has designed toys for major companies such as Fisher-Price, Sesame Workshop, and Mattel.
For “Spank the Yeti,” Farber and Wilson had to come up with 200 action cards, sometimes inventing new terms such as “Dumpsterhump” and researching raunchy acts, including “Blumpkin” and “Cleveland steamer,” which are actions our readers should avoid looking up on the Internet. But the lurid acts aren’t just for s—- and giggles, said Wilson.
“We didn’t want it to be dirty for the sake of being dirty, we wanted to put our own twist on the ‘f—, marry, kill’ model,” he said. “And I think we hit the nail on the head.”
“Spank the Yeti” is sold at several stores in Brooklyn, including Twenty Sided Store [362 Grand St. at Marcy Avenue in Williamsburg, (718) 963–1578, www.twent
