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Think you’ve got a Style worth performing or a Topic worth riffing on? Send it in. Every idea gets read by an actual human before it joins the deck — the good ones make the cut, the cursed ones make it faster.

How to write a good card

The two card types

Style cards are a character, voice, or manner you can perform — “Drunk Pirate”, “Pretentious Intellectual”, “Yoda Speak”. The test: can a person DO it with their body and their voice? If yes, it’s a Style.

Topic cards are a subject to riff on. They’re funnier when they’re specific, absurd, and a little wrong — “Rejected Yankee Candle Scents”, “Urinal Conversation”. A Topic gives the performer something to chew on, not a vague category to flail at.

What makes a good one

• Be specific, not generic. Detail is where the funny lives.
• Performable / riffable. A Style you can act; a Topic you can run with.
• Short. Readable in about a second, across the room.
• Punchy. One sharp idea beats three fuzzy ones.
• Weird beats tame. Play it safe and it dies at the table.

Good vs. weak

Example pair

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