I play with my 12 and 15 year olds. But, my husband and I pruned all of the more X-rated cards from the deck. It's still a fun family game with only 2/3 of the original deck.

I don't care if my 15 year old plays with his friends but I do NOT want to play with him. WAY TOO AWKWARD! Over the holidays, my 22 year old nephew, his girlfriend, and some others wanted to play it. My 15 year old asked if could play. I said No. He fussed. I looked at my nephew and asked...Why the hell would you even want to play that game with kids this age? They decided to play a different game. As for me, I don't play it. I just don't find that stuff funny with my wife or wives around. I'll sit around with my buddies and just spew absolute vulgarities all night, but that's between me and my buddies.

I’d do family edition for 10-13. More potty humor/fart jokes than sexual innuendo.
Regular game, I say high school.

Also recommend the new game Ransom Notes. The premise is similar to CAH and Apples to Apples. It can be risqué depending on players’ anders, but is much, much more mild/less offensive than CAH. My 12 and 16 yos had fun playing it with a group of adult family members.

Try Kids Against Maturity and the Cards Against Humanity Family edition. Same idea but tamer. Still have potty/gross humor so extreme pearl-clutchers should stick with Apples to Apples.

Mine do, at 12 and 15, but would I let other peoples 10-11 ish play? I don’t think so. The jump at 12 is kind of big - most 7th graders have seen and heard it all….

My 15 yo brought it to school and they played it in class the day before winter break. Their English teacher started playing with them and then decided that wasn’t appropriate lol - but didn’t stop them playing

Cards against humanity has a family edition.

Anonymous wrote:My 14yr old can play any video game if it is only violent. Anything sexual and no they can't. I check on common sense media. They are not allowed to play cards against humanity but I know from texts and IG that many teens are starting to play.

Dude, I get you have rules in place, but let your teenager be a teenager. 14 is wayy to old to not be knowing abt sex, he'll probably get bullied relentlessly by his peers if he doesn't lose his virginity before the end of high school, let alone not even knowing abt it in the first place.

Anonymous wrote:Hellll no. That game is rated X.

Wow. What is it?

Did not know what the game was. Bought it for 16 yo DS birthday at his request. Yes, I know I have should have looked at it more closely. Birthday arrives. Older sibs to DS are horrified (and livid---since they assumed quite rightly that I would never have knowingly agreed to purchase it had I known what it was about). I feel badly about taking away DS's bday present, so I said we would just go ahead and play it as a family---that way I could understand what it was about. I was horrified once we started playing---but since I understand what makes each of my kids laugh the most, and since I totally went all-in on picking responses regardless of inappropriate content, I wound up winning the game. My 50 yo self did a happy dance around the family room, and none of my teenagers have ever wanted to play it again.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:i'm pretty open minded about this stuff, let kids watch older than recommended for them movies, and I have a sex-ed teacher for a mom.

That said I wouldn't let 10-13 year olds play this game, especially if they were not my kids. I would also be upset to find out my 10 year old son was doing this at someone else's house. ( I have a 10 year old son.)

Also Call of Duty or anything really violent like that or 17+, I would really hesitate.

commonsensemedia has a good app where you can check yourself.

+1

I love the game, but I would never let kids that young play.

+1 - I am perhaps more permissive than I should be on movies, etc., but this crosses the line for me.

I'm 14 and I play

Not parent approved is good but for 10yrs and under (at least in my house).

I bought what do you meme at my kids request (almost 10&13) and threw out almost half the cards... but it's still fun. I'm not sure you would have any cards left if you did that with c.a.h.

So I have let mine at a family holiday as mine wanted to be included with the adult game - but I don’t think it was a great idea. Kids that age really can’t understand the nuances of joking about race, sex, and other offensive things while also recognizing that this isn’t something they should joke about in seriousness (if that makes sense).

There is a game called “not parent approved” that is like CAH with more tween appropriate inappropriate humor

So, I don’t censor any written material. BUT I reserve the right to discuss or read/play together.

I have no issue with a teen reading 50 shades, but while they were doing that, we’d be looking up regulations on domestic violence and which states don’t allow for consensual violence. We’d be discussing that BDSM is an acronym that stands for bondage/discipline, dominance/submission and sadism/masochism, and MANY people that are involved in bdsm don’t have anything to do with pain.

I’d have no issue playing cah with tweens and teens. A card about coat-hanger abortions is an opportunity to talk about abortions pre-Roe v Wade. A card about chopping up a hooker is ripe for discussion of vulnerable populations and how easy it is for them to disappear, how and why prostitution exists, how hard it is to get out once they start, the role of pimps in breaking spirits and controlling them, the role of “Johns” is continuing the practice, legal brothels and safe sex practices, the percentage who live on the streets, the percentage who were just runaway teens, etc.

If I know that a tween or teen understands how serious most of the cards are and what they are about, I don’t have an issue with them playing. Finding humor in awful things allows people to be able to tackle the issues.