card game on a date night can give you access to intimate details of your partner’s life, or give you the opportunity to ask questions you would never have even thought to ask. For all you new couples looking to find ways to bond and get to know one another better, we’re breaking down the five best card games to play on game night.
#1: Talk Flirt Dare
Talk Flirt Dare is a three-in-one game that allows you to choose the level of closeness you want to initiate during game play. The talk cards are meant to promote connection and conversation. The flirt cards are for intimacy, and the dare cards allow for fun action.
After choosing whether to play with the talk, flirt or dare deck, partners take turns pulling cards and answering questions or performing dares. This game is the perfect addition to a one-on-one date night or can be brought out during a party to spice things up.
#2: Drunk in Love
No, it's not the Beyonce song, it's the drinking card game for couples! Drunk in Love was created by a couple who were unable to find the perfect drinking game to play during quarantine, so they made their own. The game is designed to spark conversations between partners and increase closeness in relationships.
To play, each partner alternates choosing a card. If you draw one that reads “or drink,” you complete what it says or, you guessed it, take a drink. If you draw a “drink if” card, the partner or partner(s) who relate to the card takes a drink. With 99 unique cards, this game is sure to get you closer together (and drunk) by the end.
#3: Better Together
Next on our list of card games for couples is Better Together. The game is built around conversation prompts to create deeper, more meaningful relationships. One of the best features of the game is that it won’t take up much time in a couple’s busy schedule, as game play is only 30 minutes.
Better Together features 100 different cards that allow new couples to dive deep into a variety of topics. Get the inside scoop on what makes your partner who they are with questions about upbringing, past relationships, key memories, and big dreams. This game is the perfect card game for date night and the perfect opportunity to ask about your partner’s ex without looking weird.
#4: Love Lingual
Love Lingual is a game that promotes deep connection through conversation and is a fantastic addition to a new couple’s card game arsenal. The game increases vulnerability and deepens a couple’s emotional connection to one another. Love Lingual was inspired by couples’ psychologists and is perfect for accelerating a new couple’s intimacy through personal and powerful questions.
The deck contains 150 questions that fall into five different categories. These categories include intimacy, past & future, individual, couple, and family. Example questions include, “What single word would you choose to best describe our partnership?” And, “What’s the thing you hope to replicate from your own upbringing?" By the end, you’ll have a better understanding of how to speak your partner’s love language.
#5: Let’s Get Deep
Created by the makers of What Do you Meme, Let’s Get Deep is a card game designed to learn more about the person you spend the most time with, your partner. Let’s Get Deep is a great card game for date night, and allows you to create a party for you and your partner. With three intimacy levels and 500 cards, you’re sure to dig up great information about your significant other.
To play, you divide the deck into three piles: Ice Breaker, Deep, and Deeper. The game begins with the person who made the first move in the relationship drawing a card. In each turn, the player draws 1 Ice Breaker, 2 Deep, and 2 Deeper cards. The player then reads the top card out loud for the other player to answer. Example questions include, “What do your friends think of me?” And, “Do you believe in second chances?" With hard-hitting questions like these, couples are able to find out key information to develop a healthy and long-lasting relationship.