🐻 An Aileron Games Party Card Game

PUN
BEARABLE

The card game you win by losing the least

A topic flips. Ten seconds to land a pun. Choke, and the card is your shame. Like golf — fewest cards wins.

Play Rules

How to Play

Ten Seconds. One Pun. No Mercy.

Sit in a circle. Draw a topic. Fire off a pun before the clock runs out — while your opponents count you down.

01

Beat the Clock

You get 10 seconds to come up with a pun on the drawn topic. No pun, no dice.

02

They Count You Down

The opposing player (or players) counts down out loud. The pressure is the point.

03

Take Your Shame

Fail to land a pun or complete the mode’s objective, and you must accept the card as your shame.

What counts as a true pun?

A true pun is the misuse of a specific word in an improper context. Scoring is like golf — the more cards (points) you collect, the worse you’re doing. The player with the fewest cards wins. The one buried in shame loses.

Try a Round

Think Fast. Pun Harder.

Deal a topic, beat the 10-second clock — say your pun out loud. Landed it? Great. Blanked? Take the card.

🐻 Your topic Press deal to draw
10
Ten seconds
on the clock.
Go!
Ready when you are — deal a topic to start the clock.
Rounds0 Cards of shame0

Scoring’s like golf — fewest cards wins. Keep that shame count low.

The Deck

40 Topics. Infinite Wordplay.

Every card is a fresh minefield — from Fruit (easy) to Transportation (good luck). Draw one, beat the clock, or wear the shame.

40 of 40 topics
Wildcard — table picks the theme

Game Modes

Six Ways to Suffer

Same deck, wildly different games. Pick your poison and play until someone can’t bear it.

🎯

Free-for-All

The classic. Everyone for themselves, circle style. Fewest cards at the end wins.

💀

Elimination

Miss a pun and you’re out — if you’re vegetarian and make a missed-steak, you’re pout. Last punster standing wins.

⚔️

Head to Head

Two players, one topic, rapid-fire volleys back and forth until somebody blanks.

🍻

Drunk

Just add alcohol. The countdown feels shorter and the puns get… braver. Play responsibly.

👥

Teams

Squad up. Tag in your wordsmith when the topic favors them. Shame is shared.

⏱️

Time Attack

Two minutes to spit as many puns as you can on one topic — run dry and you take the card.

Back the Game

Pledge Tiers & Rewards

Help bring Pun Bearable to the table. Every tier stacks on more punishment. Prices in USD.

$1
Thank You
Our eternal gratitude and a warm, pun-adjacent glow.
$5
Sticker
A Pun Bearable sticker to slap on something you love.
$10
Print & Play PDF
The full deck as a downloadable PDF — print, cut, play tonight.
Early Bird
$15
Early Bird Game
A physical copy of the game at the early-backer price. Limited.
$20
The Game
One full retail copy of Pun Bearable, shipped to your door.
$25
T-Shirt
Wear your shame proudly with an official Pun Bearable tee.
$35
Two Copies
Two games — one to keep, one to inflict on a friend.
$40
Game + T-Shirt
The full copy plus the tee. Play it, then advertise it.
Best Value
$50
The Ultimate
Two games and a T-shirt. The whole punishing package.
$80
Pundora’s Box
A deluxe everything-bundle. Get a specific quote from us first — contents tailored.
Experience
$500
O. Henry Pun-Off
A trip to the legendary O. Henry Pun-Off World Championships. The big leagues.
Stretch Goal — $10,000

Pundressed (NSFW): an adults-only expansion deck. We’re making it either way — hit the goal and it ships to backers who want it. 18+.

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