How Well Do You Know Your Friends?

Predicamental drops one of you into a gloriously awkward hypothetical while everyone else predicts how you’d react. You may find out more about yourself than you wanted to.

3–12 players
Ages 18+
30+ minutes
260 cards

Predicamental box — four sharply dressed animals above the words Adults Only

One Card. One Victim. Everyone Votes.

Read a predicament to a friend. They vote YES or NO in secret — and everyone else predicts their answer. Guess right and you ditch a card; first player with an empty hand wins.

Predicament card titled Jackpot: you see someone accidentally drop a wad of cash — do you pocket the bills?

Your friends think they know what you’d do. Prove them wrong.

See a PredicamentBackfire Live

One minute is all it takes to learn the rules — and to work out exactly which of your friends is in trouble first.

Pick Up & Play

Three Steps From Opening the Box to Judging Your Friends

A predicament card being read at the table

Read a Predicament

A predicament card surrounded by YES and NO voting cards

Vote in Secret

The open Predicamental box with both decks in the tray

Empty Your Hand

Who goes first? Straight from the instructions: “the player who was most recently in the most awkward predicament.”

260 Predicaments,
Zero Good Options

Time machines, dropped cash, dream houses with a catch — every card ends in a question you’ll wish you didn’t have to answer. And these five are the tame ones: most of the deck is far too adult to print on a family website.