Trumped Up Cards

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Trumped Up Cards
Publication dateSeptember 2016
Years active18+
Genre(s) Party game
Players4-8
Website https://trumpedupcards.com

Trumped Up Cards is a party game developed by Reid Hoffman to poke fun at then presidential candidate Donald Trump. It was modeled after the popular Cards Against Humanity card game and sold online. The game was featured on an episode of The Daily Show with Trevor Noah in which Hoffman was a guest. [1] The game has also been covered by a large number of mainstream media outlets, including The New York Times [2] and USA Today . [3] The game is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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