Kampf gegen das Spiessertum

About this board game

Kampf gegen das Spiessertum is a German party game for 3–10 players, with a listed play time of 500 minutes. Described as a party game for horrible German people, it puts players in competition to create the funniest responses to fill-in-the-blank prompts.

At the start of each round, the player acting as the Round Boss draws a red question card and reveals it to everyone. Each player holds eight white answer cards and secretly submits a card—or sometimes more than one—to represent their answer.

The Round Boss reviews the submitted answers and decides which card or combination of cards is funniest in the context of the question. The player who submitted the winning answer receives the question card as a point, and the player to the left of the Round Boss takes over for the next round.

• 3–10 players
• Red fill-in-the-blank question cards
• White answer cards, with eight held at the beginning of each round
• A rotating Round Boss who selects the funniest response
• Play that continues until players agree to stop or are thrown out of the pub

The game ends when the players decide to stop or when they are thrown out of the pub. The player with the most collected question cards, representing points, wins.

Released in 2017, Kampf gegen das Spiessertum is the German adaptation of Kampf gegen das Bünzlitum, a Swiss party game by Angela Vögtli. It is also described as a homage to the popular Cards Against Humanity, while featuring all-new cards focused on German celebrities, places, and topics of interest.