Party Playoff is . . .

a boardgame that potentially could be a lot of fun if you played with a good group of people. I however played with a group of sucknuts. It's beyond irritating to hear a group of drunk girls shrieking after every round. Holy shit, I've never hit nor would I ever hit a woman but I would get Chris Rock to shake the shit out of them. Did anyone get that? But wait, (cue dramatic music) I still need to explain how you play.

Party Playoff is a NCAA tournament bracket style game with 4 regions, each with 8 potential winners. The 4 regions are people, places, activities, and things. The way the game works is that there is a championship question set up like, "What do cops spend more time thinking about?" so you pick your favorite from each of the four regions and then pick a final round and then your winner. You could keep this question in mind as you pick your winners, but really it doesn't make that much of a difference because some dumbass is going to ruin your bracket. If you've ever filled out a bracket it's pretty much the exact same thing. However, the way you pick a winner for each individual matchup is by flipping a card and then reading the question corresponding to that category eventually narrowing down each region. You get points by picking the winner of each region, the championship matchup, and the ultimate winner. You can also score points by choosing another player and guessing which one they'll choose as their ultimate winner. Like I've said, if you've ever filled out a bracket you'll pick up how to play pretty easily.

There's two styles to play it though: you could either pick the answer that makes more sense or you could pick the answer that's funnier. If you know me at all you clearly know that I chose the funnier one. For example, one of the "location" matchups was between "night club" and "fitting room" and the question was "Where would you rather take a group of 8 year olds?" How can you turn down the comedic quality of fitting room? It's obviously the funnier answer but the group of . . . wait, what did I call them, sucknuts? . . . that we were playing with refused to take the funny approach. Well that's just fucking stupid. What's the point of playing if you're not going to choose the funnier answer? I bet they're the kind of people that don't automatically pick "Helen Keller" when they play Apples 2 Apples. Or they're the kind of people that enjoyed Transformers 2. Sucknuts. So overall I'd say that it's a game that could be fun depending on the group but the group I played with was super annoying. And as you know, I'm not easily annoyed.

Smoke #1: Optimistic potential with a side of annoying people. Being completely optimistic wouldn't have felt right.

-Slick