Smart Ass: The Card Game Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Object of the Game
• Setup
• Playing the Game
• Winning the Game

Object of the Game

To be the first player to answer four cards correctly (the cards can be any mixture of categories).

Setup

1. Shuffle all of the cards together. (Blue is What Am I?, green is Where Am I? and orange is Who Am I?.) The red Hard Ass cards have two questions on one side. Once all of the top questions have been read, continue play using the bottom questions.

Playing the Game

1. The oldest Smart Ass player (Player 1) is the Reader and begins by asking the first question.
2. Player 1 selects the top question card from the deck. The Who, What and Where am I? question cards list 10 clues, while the Hard Ass question cards have open-ended trivia questions. Player 1 begins to read the question card aloud. Any player (other than Player 1) can yell out an answer at any time. However, each player gets only one try at answering each card. All players who provide incorrect answers are out for that round and cannot try to answer the question again.
3. Player 1 continues to read the question card until one of the players answers the question correctly. That player then takes the card and places it in front of him/her.
4. If no player answers the question correctly after the last clue is given, Player 1 wins the card.
5. Play passes to the left with the player to Player 1's left asking the next question.
6. Tie Breakers – If there is a dispute regarding which player answered the question correctly first, the Reader should determine which player wins the card. However, if the Reader cannot make the determination, then the Reader selects the next Hard Ass question card and reads one question from it for the tied players only. The first player to answer the tie-breaking question correctly wins the initial card (the tie-breaking card is then discarded). If none of the tied players answers the question correctly, the Reader wins the initial card.

Winning the Game

The first player to answer four cards correctly (the cards can be any mixture of categories) is declared the winner.