Thing Thing Game Review

Thing Thing isn’t a great title. Don’t get me wrong, it makes me laugh, but it’s a shallow laugh. An almost annoyed, perfunctory exhalation of air. An acknowledgement that what we’re doing here is cute, but my delivery of “cute” involves tight mouth corners. Thing Thing is a title that somehow manages to be both memorably silly and entirely anonymous. It doesn’t sound like the name of something so much as it sounds like what you’d say when you’re trying to think of the title, which is almost certainly the point.

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Each player is dealt a hand of cards, each containing a single word or item. Like Apples to Apples, Thing Thing is a word game based on association, but it inverts the formula. In Apples to Apples and its various progeny, you choose the card from your hand that you think best suits the category on the table. In Thing Thing, the game is in creating the category.

Let’s say my starting hand includes the following cards: The Wizard of Oz, Ravioli, Pacifier, Library, Aurora Borealis, Helium, Mount Everest, Aladdin. My goal is to get rid of as many of my cards as possible, which I do by naming a category that includes two or more of them and playing the appropriate cards. I could easily…

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