Same, Same, But Different Board Game: Rules for How to Play

Setup

Sort the cards by their types. Shuffle each set of cards separately.
Place each set of cards facedown on the table.
Each player takes a Dry Erase Card.
You either need a phone or a timer that you can set for 90 seconds.
The player that is most likely to make a situation awkward starts the game as the judge.

How to Play Same, Same, But Different

Same, Same, But Different is played over a number of rounds. Each round begins with the judge drawing one Safe Card and one Risky Card. They will read off both cards and place them in the middle of the table so all of the players can see them.

Safe and Risky Card for the round — For this round the judge drew “Something you can say at the library” for the Safe Card. They drew “and in a blackmail message.” for the Risky Card. The other players have to come up with something you can say at the library and in a blackmail message.

After the judge reads off the cards, they will start the 90 second timer. Once the timer begins all of the players have to come up with something that you can say in the situations on both of the cards in the middle of the table. When you come up with an answer, you will write it down on your Dry Erase Card.

Come Up With Answer — One of the players decided to write down the answer “Don’t speak with anyone” as something you can say at the library and in a blackmail message.

When the timer runs out all of the players will pass their Dry Erase Card to the judge facedown. The judge should mix up the cards so they don’t know who wrote down each answer.

The judge then reads out loud all of the answers. After reading all of the answers, they will choose which answer they thought was best. The judge can use whatever criteria they want to determine the best answer. Whoever submitted the answer that the judge thought was best, earns one point.

Choose the best answer — The four players have each submitted an answer. The judge has to pick which of the four answers they think is the best.

The player to the left of the judge then becomes the judge for the next round. For the next round a new Safe and Risky Card are used.

Winning the Game

The first player to earn ten points wins the game.

Components

175 Safe Cards
175 Risky Cards
8 Dry Erase Cards
8 Dry Erase Markers
Instructions

Year: 2022 | Publisher: What Do You Meme?

Genres: Card, Party

Ages: 17+ | Number of Players: 3+ | Length of Game: 30-90 minutes

Difficulty: Light | Strategy: Light | Luck: Moderate-High

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Written By:

Eric Mortensen

Eric Mortensen is an owner and head writer on Geeky Hobbies since 2014. He is an avid board game player and collector with over 3,000 board and card games in his collection. Since 2014 he has written more than 1,100 board game how to play guides.