Poetry for Neanderthals is a card game designed for our Zoom lives.
Poetry for Neanderthals is a card game designed for our Zoom lives.
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Exploding Kittens launches Zoom-based word-guessing game Poetry for Neanderthals

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Tabletop game maker Exploding Kittens has launched a card game, Poetry for Neanderthals, that people can play on Zoom calls while they’re stuck in self-isolation.

It’s a word-guessing party game, where teams earn points by correctly figuring out words and phrases. The catch is that the “Neanderthal Poets” must only use single-syllable words to describe the complex terms or they get bopped with a 2-foot inflatable club.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.