The Best Friend Game: Rules for How to Play

Setup

All of the players will break into teams of two.
One player from each team takes a blue board, and the other player from each team takes a green board.

How to Play The Best Friend Game

Each round one of the players draws one of the cards from the deck. They will read the question out loud and then place the card face up on the table. All of the players will look at the color of the card. The color of the card determines which player from each team the question is about. For example if the card is green, each team answers the question in relation to the green player.

A sample card from the game — For this round each player on each team has to write down which animal they think the green player would want to be.

The player holding the board that matches the color of the card, writes down how they would answer the question. The other player on each team writes down how they think the other player answered the question.

When everyone has wrote down their answer, each team takes a turn revealing their answers. Both players on each team reveal their answers at the same time. If their answers match, the team scores a point. Both players on the team mark off one of the numbers from their board.

Players match in The Best Friend Game — Both players on this team wrote down dog. Since they matched, they scored a point so both players cross off one of the numbers on their board.

If the two players’ answers don’t match, they don’t score any points this round.

The players did not match — One of the players wrote down dog while the other wrote down dolphin. Since they didn’t match, the players do not score points this round.

Winning the Game

The game ends when one of the teams score seven points. They win the game.

Winning The Best Friend Game — This team has scored seven points. They have won the game.

The instructions do not have a tiebreaker if two or more teams score their seventh point in the same round. A potential tiebreaker could be to keep playing additional rounds until only one of the tied teams get it right while the other tied team(s) gets it wrong.

More Than Eight Players

If there are more than eight players, you can modify the game. Since there won’t be enough boards for each player, each team only takes one board. The players alternate holding the board each round. The question from each card relates to the player holding the board that round.

When everyone is ready, the player without the board says their answer out loud. Their teammate then reveals what they wrote down on the board. If the two answers match, the team scores a point.

Otherwise the game is played the same as when there are less than eight players.

Components

125 Question Cards
6 Dry-Erase Boards
6 Markers
6 Clean-Up Cloths
Instructions

Year: 2021 | Publisher: DSS Games | Designer: Katie Burk, Joanna Price

Genres: Party

Ages: 14+ | Number of Players: 4+ | Length of Game: 20-30 minutes

Difficulty: Light | Strategy: Light | Luck: Moderate

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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.