Play Cards Against Humanity with 2 and 3 Players

Officially, Cards Against Humanity games can only be played by 4 to 20+ people. Lucky you, today we will share a few ways to play this game for horrible people, even if you don’t have many friends. Playing Cards Against Humanity with 2 or 3 players has never been easier than this! 

Cards Against Humanity For 2 Players

Here are your 4 ways of playing the game with only a friend, or whoever – It matters that they agree to play with you.

The Simple Way

Before playing Cards Against Humanity for 2 people, the simple way, the first step is to make sure that you both value good play over winning.  

Place the black deck of cards facedown, and randomly turn the cards over. Both of you should submit their favorite response out of their hand of cards, and together agree on which is the most hilarious answer. If you can’t decide on a winning card, you throw the black card of the round away. Otherwise, the winning player gets to keep the black card as a winning point.  

The Trust & Fun Way

We hope you don’t cheat in this game. Or at least you can’t get caught. 

First, decide on a winning score. In a round, one of you plays, while the other is the Card Czar. The Card Czar reads one black card, while the other player submits 4 white cards, which should be secretly assigned 1, 2, 4, and 7 points. The Card Czar picks their favorite out of the 4 cards, and that player tells what that card’s rank was and, therefore, gets that many points. Whoever reaches the winning score first, wins!  

The Guess & Get Points Way

This other way of playing isn’t really about both parties deciding on a winning card. It’s all about guessing what the other player picked from their hand. 

One of you is the Card Czar, the other submits white cards. This player submits 3 or 5 white cards but decides in their head which is their favorite pick. Out of these 3 cards, the Card Czar should take a guess which is the chosen card of the other player. If guessed correctly, the game judge gets as many points as the remaining cards (if there are 3 cards, and the chosen card is guessed correctly, the Card Czar gets 2 points). If incorrect, the mentioned card gets discarded. 

Works just as well for the 100th Edition too!

The Add-An-Extra-Cute-Player Way

This is one of my favorites! You just gotta have a pet around, an imaginary friend, or any random object (such as your drinking bottle). Similar to the Rando Cardrissian rule.

All 3 of you get a hand of cards – yes, the special player as well! One of the real players becomes the Card Czar, while the other real player submits one white card as a response to make the funniest card combo. One random white card is played from your pet’s or object’s hand of cards. After the 2 responses are submitted, the Card Czar picks their favorite and gives that player one awesome point. Yes, your drinking bottle could be the winner too! 

Cards Against Humanity: 3 Players

If we made it work for 2 players, we can kill it for 3 players! You need nothing else except these 2 ways of playing… 

The One-Card-Czar Way

This version of the game is quite similar to the original rules of CAH. Simply, there’s one Card Czar, while 2 other players submit their white responses. Then, the game judge picks their favorite answer, and that player wins the round.  

The No-Card-Czar Way

Since only 3 people are playing (most likely your closest people too), you’d like everyone to have fun equally. So, there’s no Card Czar this time! 

The black card of the round is read, and all players submit one white card. These cards get shuffled & placed facedown on the table. One of you randomly draws one of these 3 cards, and that card wins the round, no matter how absurd it is. Option Alternatively you could read the submitted white cards, and together decide on the winning card. 

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Keep in mind that for any of the above ways of playing, or even if you’re playing with 4+ people, to make it more entertaining, you could always add the Rondo Cardrissian (or the ghost player) rule.

Extra Way For 1, 2 or 3 Players

Playing Cards Against Humanity online isn’t only a good way of playing when your friends live abroad. The great thing is that you can play with absolute strangers, so, if none of your friends could play, or you have only 1 or 2 mates to play with, you could play online and make a larger team!

Final Thoughts

Not having enough people to play with, shouldn’t be the reason for you not having fun playing the most hilarious card game ever. If not all, you will definitely find one favorite in this list of 7 ways of playing Cards Against Humanity for 2 or 3 players!