Cards Against Downtime: A Fun Card Game Of 120 Cards

Turns out CAH extra packs aren’t just about tv shows, films, series… If you’re a system administrator, and have a few friends dealing with the same field, as we like to call them, hackers, Cards Against Downtime is made precisely for you!

Even though all people can play, it’s best if you’re all SysAdmins, since no one else can understand the jokes as well as you do. You know, since y’all deal with admins crying, IT data center, brogrammers, hitting refresh thousands of times, getting tired of the CEO, 56k modems, and many more hilarious (and heart-aching) situations…

But of course, only people over the age of 17 can play. That comes because of its dirty & adult-friendly content. The game contains a total of 120 cards, which work great when played as a standalone game, and the replayability is high (because of the card combinations).

However, if you wish, you may add this edition to another CAH pack, or even to the main game. Cards Against Downtime may not fix your networking problems, but it definitely fixes your mood and makes you let go of worries while making fun of them!

How To Play Cards Against Downtime

You can’t play if you don’t have the cards, can you? As we mentioned in the game details, this is the PDF version, which we love for 2 reasons: it’s way cheaper than a hard copy & you don’t have to wait for it to arrive. Long story short, you purchase the game, print the cards out, and you’re fine!

However, there are a few tips that we think would give you a hand:

Go to a printing house for the best experience;
Pick a thicker paper, so you don’t get mad when cards get torn out while playing;
Cut the cards carefully to their size;
Make a storage box to keep them safe.

As you assumed, we have a special guide for this: Printing Cards Against Humanity Advices.

Once you have the cards completed, you may now ask all players to sit in a circle, just so everyone can see each other. One of you becomes the Card Czar randomly (it can be the player who has the most experience in SysAdmins), and all other players get 5 white cards, facedown.

The Card Czar has to draw one blue card and read it out loud. This is when the other players must look at their pile, and give the cringiest, most absurd, funniest response to the blue card. It can either be an answer or a fill-in-the-blank phrase. White cards are handed to the Card Czar, which shuffles them and picks their favorite. The favorite card (the player) gets one awesome point!

You may play until you’re out of cards, or once you get bored of it. Whoever has the most points by the end of the game, wins. Just like Cards Against Humanity rules.

Card Examples Of Cards Against Downtime

The best way to see how good a game is, it’s by showing some card examples. That’s what we’ll do now besties!

We’re not over yet… Here are some extra card examples:

Blue cards:

• The worst desktop wallpaper in the company shows.
• Marketing’s life was not the same after IT showed them ____________.
• No. We don’t support _________.
• Choose now between Megan Fox and ________.

White cards:

• Erotic fan fiction of Captain Kirk.
• KHAAAAAAN!
• Half-life 3.
• Fucking campers.
• Getting socially engineered by a 12-year-old.
• Deadpool. On a unicorn.
• RTFM!
• A sexy meme of your boss.
• A broken Nerf gun.