Predicamental — the adults-only party card game of awkward predicaments
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
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.
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
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.
Built for Friends With No Secrets Left
Adults only, 18+
The box means it. The predicaments get personal, the votes get honest, and nobody leaves unjudged.
3 to 12 players
Works as a trio, thrives with a full house. Deal 7 predicaments each — 5 in a big group — and play about 30 minutes.
In the box
260 predicament cards — blanks included for writing your own — plus YES, NO and IT DEPENDS voting cards. 284 cards in all.
Fair Questions, Honest Answers
How many players do you need for Predicamental?
Made for 3–12 players, and a round takes 30+ minutes.
What age is Predicamental for?
Ages 18+ — the rating we sell it under.
What comes in the box?
260 predicament cards — blanks included for writing your own — plus YES, NO and IT DEPENDS voting cards. 284 cards in all.
How fast does it ship?
We pack every box ourselves and ship from the US to US addresses within 2–3 business days, and orders of $35 or more ship free.
Is Predicamental a drinking game like Sotally Tober?
No — Predicamental is a guessing game. 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, and the first player with an empty hand wins. Sotally Tober is the drinking one, and it's Ages 21+. Predicamental is Ages 18+, and nothing in it asks you to drink — the box is 260 predicament cards plus YES, NO and IT DEPENDS voting cards.
How adult does it actually get?
Adults only, and the box means it. The five cards fanned on this page are the tame ones — most of the deck is far too adult to print on a family website. If your table would rather not go there, this is the wrong box.
Can we try it before we buy it?
Not online — Predicamental is a boxed game, with no free browser version. The closest look is the how-to-play video on this page and the five real predicament cards fanned out below it.
Does it still work with only three of us?
Yes — three is the minimum on the box, and the deal scales with the table: 7 predicaments each, 5 once it's a big group, about 30 minutes either way. Twelve is the ceiling.
Find Out What They Really Think
Predicamental reveals what your friends really believe you’d do — one awkward vote at a time. Ships from the US, packed by us.
