How to Play Cards Against Muggles

We have some big Potterheads here at Family Game Shelf. We already have reviews for Harry Potter Air Pictionary and Mystery at Hogwarts and we have the Harry Potter inspired games in our shop Wizard Scattergories and Wizard Taboo. So when we got a chance to play Cards Against Muggles we jumped at it.

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Setting up Cards Against Muggles

This game has maybe the most bare bones rules I have ever seen. We didn’t mind because if you’ve ever played Apples to Apples or Cards Against Humanity, we already know how to play. And all of these games are super easy to learn to play.

To start, each player gets ten white cards that have the answers on them.

Playing Cards Against Muggles

Once everyone has had a chance to read through their white answer cards, the first judge or Cardster reads the black card that is either a question or a fill in the blank statement.

Next, all players except for the Cardmaster pick one card to answer the question or blank.

Once all the cards are in, the Cardmaster shuffles them and then rereads the black card and each white card. He then gets to pick the card that he found the funniest. The player who put the chosen card in gets one Awesome point.

All players who put a card in get a new card to add to their hand. The role of Cardmaster now moves clockwise and the process starts again.

Winning Cards Against Muggles

The rules for this game actually don’t have any instructions for a winner. So as a group you should choose a set amount of cards to play to—five for a shorter game, ten for a longer game. Or you could play for a certain amount of time and the player with the most Awesome points wins.

What We Liked

First, there are a lot of cards in this game so there could be a lot of playability in it. The game is also good quality although the box is a very long awkward shape.

Next, we liked that there were some cards that had nothing to Harry Potter. This was great for those of us who know only a little of Harry Potter and all of its details.

It should be said that the Harry Potter fans knew all of the references and found some of them quite funny. There seemed to be a great mix for fans.

What We Didn’t Like

Wow, we were very surprised by the inappropriateness of some of these cards. I won’t even repeat some of them. Many of the cards were about sex and the gross side of it. I wouldn’t mind so much but the level of them and amount of them was too much. This is especially true as we were playing with our teenage kids. (Yes, I know that they’re almost grown up but that doesn’t mean I want to go there with them.)

The other thing that we didn’t like was that some of the cards had double blanks. This was very hard to configure. How do you keep the answers together and keep them anonymous? We ended up with the judge closing her eyes and putting the cards in individual piles. It was really weird and really disrupted that flow of the game. Also, it was hard to pick a winner as the Cardmaster liked the first card of one player and the second card of a different player.

Is Cards Against Muggles Worth Adding to you Family Game Shelf?

I guess the answer to this depends on who will be playing the game. I don’t recommend it for younger players or even for family game night. That said, if you have huge Harry Potter fans and are okay with a lot of sexual content, then it is a fun game. As I said, the Harry Potter fans in our house really liked it and wanted to play again.

As of the time of this post, Amazon.com didn’t have this game in stock. However Amazon.ca has it. You can get your copy here.

And if you want to still get your wizard on, check out Harry Potter Spot It, Harry Potter Pictopia and Harry Potter Clue. Don’t forget to get your copies of our Harry Potter Scattergories and Wizard Taboo.

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