Cards Against Humanity is one of the greatest card cames to emerge in recent years. Dubbed a "card game for horrible people", it's now available to play online for free at Playingcards.ioio.
It's all super simple to set up. All you have to do is create a virtual room, copy and paste the link to your friends, and laugh away as you bring out the worst in each other from the comfort of your own homes.
In short, it's the perfect way to have fun while social distancing - and potentially quarantining - as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Because 2020.
On the off chance that you're unfamiliar with the game, let us briefly explain. A question card is pulled, and then everyone in the game looks at their hand to chose the worst and most horrible answer. The judge picks a winner.
In the online version of the game, people's hands are private, and they simply drag and drop their answers to the area that reads "answer cards in play". After this, the judge moves the winning card next to the question card. It's all super simple, and more importantly, brilliant fun!
These Spanish neighbors spent their quarantine creating an impromptu band:However, if you're looking for a game that's a little more traditional to keep you and your friends entertained while isolating, virtual pub quizzes are also a thing thanks to Goose's Quizzes, which until the coronavirus pandemic, organized pub quizzes in the UK.
Discussing the company's decision to move its business online, its founder, Andrew, said that the team worked as hard as they could to create a virtual quiz that anyone could join, from anywhere, the day that Boris Johnson announced the UK's lockdown.
He explained that while the final product wasn't exactly professional, it meant that people were entertained during this difficult time.
The online pub quizzes work thanks to Twitch and Google Forms, which people use to submit their answers. They are then marked by Goose Quizzes, and the answers are revealed the next night.
The online quizzes have been a roaring success, with countless people sending in pictures of themselves playing at home - many of them photographed, quite understandably, in their pajamas!
We are here for it!