A few months ago my good friend Ien Cheng introduced me to the card game Anomia. It quickly rocketed to one of my favorite games and became staple entertainment at our Bushnell family dinners.

We recently went on a family vacation and realized at the airport that we'd forgotten to bring a copy! With no access to a replacement, we spent a few dinners creating our own second edition. We happened by a Parisian game store and found a few decks of BLANK Bicycle playing cards and a stationary store with colored permanent markers — and voilà, our game was complete.

104 phrase cards and 8 wildcards. We added a new mechanic we're not certain exists in the current edition: since card phrases have varying difficulties we ensured that symbols and their wildcards matched difficulty.

We've shared our card list as a Google Doc in case anyone wants to use or build on it.

If you haven't already, purchase a game of Anomia today! You won't regret it. A huge thanks to Andrew Innes & Jody Burr for creating such a ridiculously awesome game. We love it!

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