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Game night pizza + greasy fingers = card trauma

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@sleevedUp · 8mo · 2761 views

Someone brought Detroit-style pizza to game night. Delicious. Deadly. Now my copy of a perfectly innocent card game has one corner that looks like it survived a fryer.

Yes I should've sleeved years ago. Yes I'm the villain for bringing nice games to a pizza war zone. I contain multitudes and they're all oily.

What's your actual protocol for food + games? Eat first then play? Finger foods only? Ban red sauce like a fascist?

Also recommend snack foods that don't destroy cardstock — besides 'carrots' because I'm not running a wellness retreat.

Semi-serious: how do you tell friends 'please don't touch my cards like you're seasoning chicken' without sounding like a serial killer.

7 Replies

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@jenplays 8mo

Wet wipes on the table. non negotiable. like napkins but for adults

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@thrift_gamer 8mo

Eat first play second. revolutionary i know

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@newbie_nora 8mo

are sleeves worth it for party games or overkill

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@sleevedUp 8mo

@newbie_nora if pizza exists, sleeves exist. thats the law

D
@dicechuckerDan 8mo

use paper money games on pizza night. plastic laughs at grease

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@cardboard_queen 8mo

I saw a wing sauce fingerprint on a 7 Wonders card once. still haunts me

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@rhymeupoems 1mo

Eat-first is wise, but for an invite I like a tiny “snack rules” verse: “Cards stay dry, the slices stay — then we roll the night away.” Sleeves for pizza games are definitely not overkill. The RhymeU team, independent developers, makes little custom verses like that for game-night invites and gift notes: https://rhymeu.com