Cards Against Humanity Australia - Original Adult Party Expansion Card Games

An adult party game, often called a fill-in-the-blank card game, gives a group a prompt and lets the funniest answer win. Cards Against Humanity is the game that made the format famous, billed on its own box as a party game for horrible people.

About Cards Against Humanity

Cards Against Humanity began with eight friends who went to Highland Park High School, north of Chicago. They wrote the game for their own parties, then funded a print run through Kickstarter, raising nearly four times their goal. It was officially released in May 2011, and later that year it was shown in the Big Games area of the IndieCade festival.

The company has stayed independent and famously odd. It bought an island in Maine and named it Hawaii 2. It has dug a Holiday Hole for no reason and held anti-sales on Black Friday. It even gives the main game away as a free download, under a Creative Commons licence that bars anyone from selling it. The company says it rewrites large parts of the game every year.

The Cards Against Humanity range

The range has three layers: a main game, expansions that shuffle into it, and a separate Family Edition. Here is how each part fits.

The main game: Australian edition

Everything starts here, and the company's own advice is to buy this first. Each round, one player reads a black card with a question or a blank. Everyone else answers with the funniest white card in their hand, and the reader picks a winner. Our Australian edition of the main game swaps obscure American jokes for local ones. The version we stock holds 550 cards: 460 white answer cards and 90 black prompt cards.

Red Box

The Red Box is the first big add-on most groups buy. It holds 300 cards, made up of 230 white cards and 70 black cards. These are the same cards that first came out as the First, Second and Third Expansions, now gathered in one box. Our Red Box needs the main game to play and simply shuffles into your existing deck.

Blue Box

The Blue Box picks up where the Red Box ends. It holds 300 cards, 220 white and 80 black, reprinting the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Expansions. Its black cards include Pick 2 prompts, so players must chain two answers together. It is a good second step for groups who have worn out the Red Box. Our Blue Box works with the main game alone, though the company suggests adding the Red Box first.

Green Box

The Green Box is all new writing rather than a reprint, and the company called it its biggest and best expansion yet. It holds 300 cards: 245 white and 55 black. You need the main game to play, and the Red and Blue Boxes are recommended but not required. Our Green Box suits groups who already know every joke in their deck by heart.

Newer 300-card boxes

The company keeps adding fresh boxes, each holding 300 cards. The Absurd Box leans into surreal, nonsense humour. The Everything Box is a general mix of new jokes for the main game. The Hot Box adds 300 new cards, and the Super Box is billed as 300 new cards for 2026. Each one shuffles straight into the main game, so you can add as many as your group can handle.

Large expansions and storage

For big collections, More Cards Against Humanity is a large expansion that adds a full new set of jokes. The Ultimate Expansion gathers nearly 2,000 cards in a leather case. Storage boxes have followed the game since the Bigger, Blacker Box of 2013. The Bōks, a leather case, holds more than 3,500 cards. These suit groups who play often and want every card in one place.

Themed packs

Small themed packs add a short burst of jokes on one topic, usually about 30 cards each. Long-running titles include the Weed Pack, College Pack, Food Pack, Sci-Fi Pack, Geek Pack and Fantasy Pack. Some packs support a cause. The 2015 Design Pack had 30 cards by famous designers, with proceeds going to the Chicago Design Museum. The World Wide Web Pack was written with Reddit users and benefits the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Family Edition

Family Edition keeps the same fill-in-the-blank play but swaps adult humour for silly, kid-safe jokes. It began as a free printable game in April 2020 and became a 600-card boxed set later that year. It was developed with child development experts and is meant for ages 8 and up. Add-ons include the Glow in the Dark Box, the Written by Kids Pack and the School Sucks Pack.

International and regional editions

Besides the Australian edition, the company sells versions adapted for Canada and the UK. There is also an International Edition that drops country-specific jokes altogether. Each regional edition keeps the same rules and the same black and white cards, with references changed to suit local players. All of them work with the boxed expansions, so a mixed group can still share one deck.

Other games from Cards Against Humanity

Cards Against Humanity also makes stand-alone party games. Party Mouth asks players to shout the same words in the same order. Contact! is about stumping your friends. Head Trip is a cooperative board game, and Tales Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 are fill-in-the-blank story books. A pack of 50 blank cards lets your group write its own jokes into the main game.

How to play

Each player draws ten white cards. One player becomes the Card Czar and reads a black card aloud. Everyone else picks the white card that best fills the blank or answers the question, and hands it face down to the Czar.

The Czar shuffles the answers, reads each one out, and picks a favourite. Whoever played it keeps the black card as a point. Then the Czar role moves on. Some black cards say Pick 2, so players submit two white cards in order. You can play until someone reaches a set score, or until the laughing stops.

Building your collection

Start with the main game. After a few nights, many groups find they know every punchline, and that is the moment for an expansion. The Red Box is the natural first step, followed by the Blue Box and then the Green Box. Each box adds 300 cards to the same deck, so the game feels new again.

Keep the boxes together and you can deal from one huge shared deck. For other ways to fill a games night, see our guide to adult games for couples and groups.

Free download or boxed game?

Because the main game is free to print, some people ask why they should buy the box. Printing 600 cards at home takes time, ink and a lot of cutting. The boxed game arrives ready to play, with printed cards and a box to keep them in.

The free files also cover the main game only. The Red, Blue and Green Boxes are sold as boxed expansions, so you need the printed cards to add them. The Australian edition is a boxed product too, with local jokes the free American files do not include.

If you are curious, the download is a fair way to test the humour with friends. If your group laughs, the box is the easy way to keep playing. It also makes a far better gift than a stack of printouts.

How the range compares

Making a night of it

The game works best with four or more players, but it scales easily to a big group. Set out snacks and drinks, deal the cards and let the first round break the ice. Because the rules take seconds to explain, latecomers can join mid-game.

It also makes a strong gift. A boxed expansion suits a friend who already owns the main game. If you are shopping for a hens night or a birthday, our adult party gifts include other cheeky ideas that are easy to wrap.

Party game or couples game?

Cards Against Humanity is a group game built on shock and surprise. It is not designed to lead into intimacy. If you want a game for two that turns playful talk into foreplay, our sex games for couples are built for that. For longer evenings with a board, tokens or rounds, browse our adult board games, where both party and couples titles sit side by side.

Who Cards Against Humanity suits — and who should look elsewhere

It suits friends who enjoy dark, rude humour and do not mind being a little offended. It also suits hosts who want a game anyone can learn in a minute.

Look elsewhere if your group dislikes edgy jokes, or if children will be playing. In that case, Family Edition keeps the format with gentler humour.

Why buy Cards Against Humanity at Adultsmart

We stock the genuine Australian edition of Cards Against Humanity, plus the Red, Blue and Green Box expansions. Each product page lists the card counts, so you know what is in the box. Orders leave our Australian warehouse in plain packaging. Deal the Cards. Lose Your Dignity.