While you were stuffing yourself full of your mom’s cooking and lazying about in a nonstop video game haze during winter break, Haas seniors, Jeremy Watson and Edurado Aparicio, were creating their own game: Assembly Required.

What is Assembly Required, you ask? Advertised as “the flexible card game with a shameless sense of humor,” Assembly Required can be described as the 2.0 version of Apples-to-Apples and Cards Against Humanity. Geared towards college students, and anyone with a sense of humor, this game is not afraid to say it all.

To play the game, each player gets 8 cards (4 red cards – verbs, and 4 black cards – nouns). A prompt will be displayed on either your smart phone or, for those who still have a ‘dumb’ phone, your laptop or computer screen. Players can play 1 or more cards, joining them to create sentence in response to the prompt.

The great thing about Assembly Required that sets it apart from all the other similar card games is the use of technology. In this day and age, with so many people on the Internet or in possession of a smart phone, it should be a natural transition to go from regular ‘ole card games to one that incorporates your iPhone (or Android, I guess) just like Assembly Required does. The ‘prompt’ or context is displayed on their website, play.getassembled.com, where players can access and get topics ranging from “What does Stanford’s oldest tradition involve?” to “What did Michael Jackson like more than the innocence of children?” with any type of Internet connection.

Another great attribute of Assembly Required is that users can submit their own prompts. I know that personally playing Apple- to-Apples or other similar card games gets kind of old after you see the same prompt come up a few times. But with Assembly Required, the database of all the prompts will be constantly expanding and changing. Plus, since you can play any number and different combinations of your hand, you can always mix it up (as there are multiple ways to answer the question: “Why does my face hurt?”)

So how do you get your hands on one of these decks? (If you have read thus far, it can be safe to say you are a bit interested.)

So far, they have a website where users can try out a demo, and many satisfied friends, family, and classmates, who, like me, are raving about the of the game, but very few cards actually available. In order to be able to print these black and red cards, they are going to need a little help. Check out their awesome Kickstarter where you can find more information and help make the game a reality.

In the meantime, ponder on this question and one of the prompts from the game: “What would Shaq’s profession have been if he had lived during the Civil War?”

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