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Bar Banter: Drunks & Disasters

Drunks &
Disasters

A bilingual conversation game where personalities collide and chaos takes over.

Inspired by izakaya culture and Japanese humour. Answer everyday questions, adopt ridiculous personalities, and deal with disasters that change the whole table.

108 cards · Japanese & English

How to play ↓
Bar Banter: Drunks & Disasters Level 1 card game box
Level 1 · In development

Three card types. One unpredictable conversation.

Question card: What do you do in your free time? I usually blank.

Questions

Ask the player on your right. Bilingual questions and answer prompts cover everyday topics, experiences, and opinions.

Genki Gyaru: You must speak energetically and casually.

Drunks

Take on a personality until it is replaced or removed. As Genki Gyaru, speak energetically and casually.

Suddenly Senpai: Everyone must use polite language only.

Disasters

Change the rules for everyone until the effect is replaced or removed. Suddenly Senpai makes the whole table use polite language.

The twist: both effects apply at once. Genki Gyaru meets Suddenly Senpai? Stay enthusiastic—and impeccably polite.

How to play

No points. No winners.
The conversation is the game.

  1. Shuffle the deck and place it face down.
  2. The last person to order a drink goes first. Play clockwise.
  3. Draw a card and follow its instructions, keeping active Drunks and Disasters in play.
  4. Continue until the deck runs out—or you've had enough!

LEVEL 1

Inside the original deck

72
Question cards
34
Drunk and Disaster cards
2
Rule cards

For parties, language exchanges, and nights at the izakaya. Japanese-English prompts make language practice part of the conversation.

Alcohol is optional. Beer, tea, coffee—bring whatever you enjoy.

More chaos to come: future levels may bring new characters, disasters, and harder questions. Deck formats are still being explored.

Good drinks. Great conversation.
Terrible personalities.

A Kotoba Labs creation.

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