Let’s Play
Gather your daftest friends and family and get ready to battle it out with BIG DAFT NOISE WAR the card game. Make weird noises, try not to laugh and watch out for Grandma!
5+
AGE
PLAYERS
2+
WAYS TO PLAY
3x
3+ Players
Noise War
Make the biggest daftest noises to win. The player holding the most cards at the end of the game is the winner!
Setup
Shuffle both decks. Deal 3 x ? cards and 3 x ! cards to each player. Place the remaining cards in the centre.
Choose who becomes the first card boss. Everyone takes a deep breath and hums! Whoever hums for the longest on one breath becomes the first card boss.
Play!
The card boss chooses one ? card and one ! card from their hand to make a prompt and shows it to the other players. Eg. ? Spooky ! Frog
Everyone (apart from the card boss) takes it in turn to make the biggest daftest Spooky Frog noise. Play starts from the left of the and continues clockwise.
The card boss decides who made the best noise and announces them the winner. The cards in play, eg. Spooky and Frog, are given to the winning player and are kept face down next to them to keep tally, they are no longer in play.
The player to the left of the card boss becomes the new card boss, they select a ? and a ! card from their hand and play continues until all players have played their cards.
Winning
The winner is the player who won the most cards.
Draw - Laugh Off
In the event of a draw (at any point) a Laugh Off is triggered. The card boss turns over a ? card and a ! card from the deck and chooses who goes first. The first player must make the noise on the cards eg. Karate Grandma.
The second player must not laugh before, during, or for five seconds after the noise is made.
If they laugh the first player wins and the laugh off cards are returned to the bottom of the deck. The original cards in play, eg. Karate and Grandma, are given to the winner.
If the second player doesn’t laugh, it’s their turn to make the noise and the first player must not laugh.
If neither player laughs, the cards are returned to the bottom of the deck, new ? and ! cards are turned over from the top of the deck.
Play continues until a player laughs and a winner is decided.
Optional - Passing
At the start of a hand the card boss can turn over one ! card from the deck and lay it face up. This is the noise a player must make if they want to pass. At the end of the hand the card is returned to the bottom of the deck and another is turned over by the next card boss.
2+ Players
Survival of the Daftest
Avoid elimination to be the last player standing. Players are knocked out if they break the chain. No passing.
Setup
This game uses the ! deck only. Shuffle and place in the middle of the players.
Play!
First player takes one ! card from the top of the deck. They keep the card hidden and make the noise on the card eg. Monkey.
The player to the left takes a card from the top of the deck eg. Gong. They make the noise of the first player and add their noise afterwards, e.g. Monkey, Gong.
Play continues in a noisy memory chain until someone messes up and is eliminated. All cards return to the bottom of the deck, play starts again and continues until one player is remaining.
Winning
The winner is the player who is the last player remaining.
2 Player
Be daft, don’t laugh
Try not to laugh. Be the first to win three sets of cards.
Setup
Deal 5 x ? cards and 5 x ! cards to each player. No passing. Determine who plays first with a raspberry blowing contest, longest on one breath wins.
Play!
The first player chooses one of each card from their hand to play, reveals them to the second player, Eg. Lonely + Chainsaw, and then makes the noise.
The second player must not laugh before, during, or for five seconds after the noise is made.
If they laugh the first player wins and keeps the cards. If they don’t laugh the second player wins the cards. The first player then takes a ? + a ! card from the deck and play is passed to the second player.
Winning
The winner is the first person to win three sets of cards.
We need your help
We are at the early stages of bringing the game to the world, and we would love to know about your experience playing it. Share your thoughts, good and bad (we can take it!). And if you get kicked out of a pub for playing it in public that’s one of our dreams come true.
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Thanks for playing and stay daft!
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