Second Helpings: The Giving Game
Happy almost-Thanksgiving.
Epic Philanthropy created a giving game to get the table talking while you're all together. Print the cards, cut them apart, and play at your table. Five questions, two wildcards, and one championship round over a very serious $1 million decision. It takes about 20 minutes, longer if your family's full of storytellers, pie optional.
How to print
Print all 3 pages Single-sided, on US Letter, Landscape, at Actual size (100%), in color. Cut on the dashed lines and you’ll end up with 12 cards total.
How to Play
You need: this deck and as long as the stories take. Take turns telling the stories. Make the decisions together. Feel free to adjust these rules to what works for your gathering.
- Stack the cards in play order: Questions 1 to 4, then Championship, Pie Bribe, First Slice, and Before Dessert on the bottom. Set Pardon and Seconds face up on the side.
- Take turns. Whoever's turn it is draws the top question card and reads it out loud, then answers first, in about 60 seconds. Then go around the table. Kids can pair up with each other or with an adult. Do what works.
- Every question card has two versions. Pick the one that suits your crowd best.
- Wildcards: Pardon and Seconds can each be used once per game, by anyone. Pardon skips a whole question for the entire table, and it only counts if one other person at the table agrees. Seconds lets the table add to a story that just got told. Grab the card when you use it so everyone knows it is spent.
- After Question 4, play the Championship card. This round is different: everyone makes a 30-second case for where the $1,000,000 should go.
- Read Pie Bribe, take the vote, and hand the winner the First Slice card.
- Finish with Before Dessert. Do what it says, then phones away and pie out.
Thank you for being part of my first full year building Epic Philanthropy.
I'm grateful for you.
Founder, Epic Philanthropy