Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Loaded Questions

We all really enjoyed Game Night tonight. Loaded Questions isn't the best game to play with only three people (though they admit this right on the box), but if you make the questions and answers the focus rather than concentrating on winning, it's a great game for laughs and interesting conversation.

The star of the show is the deck of cards, each with four--you guessed it--loaded questions on them. The questions fall into one of four categories: hypotheticals ("what would you do if...?"), Anything Goes (random questions like "what are three words you think of when you hear the word 'white'?"), no-brainers ("what is your favorite...?") and personals ("what is the most common compliment people give you?"). Each player takes turns being the one to read out the question, and the other players all write down their answer; then the asker has to guess who wrote which answer. (It's this last part that makes a three-person game less than ideal. It's a bit too easy to make it a competition.)

We haven't played the actual board game very often, but we used to take the deck of cards on car trips. We haven't done that for a while--I guess we’ve been doing fewer car trips recently--but we should definitely bring these cards with us next time. Meanwhile, for posterity, I'd like to record the type of car that Finn would want to own if money were no object ("flying") and the three words he associates with "white": color, marshmallows, grandad.