XXXenophile
1996
BGG Geek Rating
5.5
based on 278 ratings
BGG Average Rating
5.8
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BGG Ranking
#16953
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Players
2-5
Weight
1.65/5.00
Playtime
45 min
Age
12+
⚙️ Game Mechanics
How this game works - core systems and player actions
🎨 Artists
Brian Snoddy
Mark Tedin
Dan Smith
Mike Raabe
Pete Venters
Kaja Foglio
Quinton Hoover
David Cherry
Anson Maddocks
Michael Dashow
Steve Fastner
Tim Collier
Toivo Rovainen
George Barr
Mark A. Nelson
James Ernest
Daniel Buckley
April Lee
Duncan Eagleson
Leah Hirch
Monika Livingstone
Matt Howarth
Stormin' Gus Norman
Rich Larson
Zak Pasco
Doug Rice
Tomoko Saito
Diana Harlan Stein
Michelle Spaulding
Krik Van Wormer
Neil Vokes
V. M. Wyman
Mitch O'Connell
Rob Alexander
Margaret Organ-Kean
Phil Foglio
Colleen Doran
Julia Lacquement-Kerr
Doug Shuler
Liz Danforth
Ernie Chan
Robert DeJesus
Gerard Donelon
Lela Dowling
Mark E. Rogers (I)
Charlie Wise
Jim Woodring
Robert Eggleton
Harold Arthur McNeill
Justin Norman
Lubov
Ruth Thompson
Todd Lockwood
🏢 Publishers
📖 About This Game
The xXxenophile collectable card game is a game based on introducing different people, places, and things and hope they "pop." Based on the erotic comic of the same name by Phil Foglio, the game retains the humor of the comic, but the images are less explicit. Where the comic is definitely rated "X", the card game's pictures would receive a soft "R" rating.
The basic mechanic of the game is laying out the cards in a certain pattern face down, flipping one of the cards, and then attempting to match the edges of the cards with edges of the same color. Each card has a different point total, and the first player to 100 points wins.
Each player brings his or her own deck to play, and the decks get hopelessly intermingled during play. Half the fun of the xXxenophile game is gaining cards that you did not originally have.
The cards are not painted in an insulting way, are no more demeaning to women than they are to men, and there is material for people of all sexual preferences within the artwork. The game is still not appropriate for children by the standards of its country of origin (the United States).
Cheapass Games’s James Ernest, the game designer who designed Kill Doctor Lucky and Button Men, created the design for play of the game.