Farts and Fairies Review
Card play makes this more than just a giant fart joke.
Fart, and smell the least amount of farts in a straightforward card game filler. From 2-6 players, in 20 minutes.
Video published June 1st, 2021
Manage your farts, and your means of escaping them
Deflect your friends' farts right at them
Counterplay through the best fart card of all
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Overview & How to Play
In Farts and Fairies, you’re trying to be the Survivor of the Fartest, yes that’s what it actually says in the rulebook.
You want to manage your hand of cards to have the least stench in your area, which are represented by Fart cards that others can play on you. There’s a lot of Farting, and you want to get it out from your hand because you get penalized for it late game. Fart away!
But be careful, players have ways to deflect Farts! Instead of Farting, you can also play a Blue card, like eating a bunch of beans to get a new hand.
Remember, you’re trying to have the cleanest air quality come end of the game, making sure you have the least Fart value in front of them, combined with leftover Farts in your hand.
Pros
Oh hi Dad, this game is FILLED with stinky Dad jokes. There’s Queen of Farts. Who cut the Faritsan cheese? Or, I stink, therefore I am: Rene “Desfartes”. It’s just unrelenting, and hilarious if you care to read those parts of cards.
But gosh is Farts and Fairies so simple, just draw a card and play a card. In that though, you still have to worry about your hand, which is what we call ‘Fart management’. You gotta let go those nasty Farts before the game ends, but your opponents survival ‘Green’ cards deflect that right back at you… but then you can play your own Green card! Then, they can play another Green card! This becomes a chain of waving Farts towards each other until it does land on someone, yes even someone who originally launched the Fart!
Combine this with the Blue cards, like Fartatomic Bomb to move already played Farts, or locking someone in the bathroom to pass their turn, and it’s chaos.
To counteract that chaos, is the Fairy cards, which gives you some more digestive juices. There’s the Fart Police to cancel anything, then there’s the Toot Fairy to be played as literally any other card in the game!
So despite the simple turns and goofy theme, Farts and Fairies is far from brain dead, maybe using the Toot Fairy to swap hands with someone. You’re always looking at the Farts in front of people, and if anyone could possibly deflect your stinkiest Fart.
It’s all within 20 minutes, with Fart jokes absolutely everywhere.
Cons & Nitpicks
The rulebook is a little too simple right now, with no gameplay examples at all, which sucked. Then where’s the tiebreaker?
And while we were just praising the Toot Fairy, it can be a little too daunting to play with for newcomers, since they don’t know all of the possible cards in the game. It’s not a huge deal, since you can always just play it as a 5 strength Fart, but we wish there would have been a player aid for it.
For such a simple and short game too, we’re concerned about replayability, since you’ll smell/see every single card in every game. Opening hands are different, but there’s no board that changes, or any special starting abilities you can play around with. It’s all just a deck of cards.
To help with that, you can play with the NSFW expansion, but that makes the game WAY more casual feeling with a ‘DEATH’ card, where if you topdeck it, you basically lose the game. Without that card, there actually is maneuvering you can do to help you win.
