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The Contender: The Game of Presidential Debate (2015)

Players

3–99

Best: 5, 6

Playing time

15–30 min

Age

11+

6.13

Average rating

113

Ratings

1.17/5

Weight

#22590

BGG rank

Outside top 5,000

Designer:John Teasdale, Justin Robert Young

Artist:Guts & Glory (Branding and Design)

Publisher:(Self-Published) +2 more

Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).

Game DNA

Strategy5.0

Luck5.0

Interaction7.0

Complexity2.3

Theme5.0

This game's strategy, luck, interaction, complexity and theme.

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Overview

The Contender is a social card game inspired by the vim and vigor of a real presidential debate.

To win, you must use facts, attacks and distracts to convince the Moderator that you are fit to lead the free world. The deck brings you hundreds of one-liners based on real presidential quotes that you'll combine to beat your opponents in the debate of the century.

Players take turns debating an issue drawn from a deck of Topic cards by combining the phrases on the Argument cards to create the most convincing or entertaining argument.