How do you play Prompts That Kill?

One player is the Judge and reads out a Prompt card: a ridiculous question a human asked a machine. Everyone else answers as the machine by playing a Response card from a hand of ten. The Judge reads each pair aloud as a two-line conversation and picks the answer that kills. First to five Kills wins.

What makes it different from other party games?

The cards form a conversation instead of filling in a blank: a human asks a machine something ridiculous and you answer as the machine. Two card types are ours alone, Save Us and Hallucination.

How many players do you need?

Four to twenty-plus, best with four to six. A game runs 30 to 90 minutes and you can stop whenever the room has had enough.

A complete 213-card deck is free to print at promptsthatkill.com/print-and-play, and there is a 12-page pocket deck too. The 601-card box is what you buy if you would rather not use scissors, and every card in it is released free over time.

Do you need an app or AI to play?

No. It is paper on purpose: no app, no internet, no machines at the table. That is the joke and the point.

What are Save Us cards?

A Save Us card is one of the machines planning how to harm humans, cut off mid-sentence. Instead of answering as the machine you finish its sentence as a human, with an Instruction card: something lovely the machine now believes is a weapon.

What is the Hallucination card?

An optional round for tables with pens. Shuffle the Hallucination cards into the Judge's pile; when one comes up, nobody plays a card: everyone writes their own answer, the player on the Judge's left reads them aloud, and the Judge picks without knowing whose is whose. Thirty seconds.

Is it family friendly?

No. It is 17+, adult and older-teen humour.

It is not in stores yet. A Kickstarter is planned for autumn 2026 with delivery in 2027. Join the kill list on the site for launch news.

Who made Prompts That Kill?

Chris Canfield, who grew up in his parents' game store in the Chicago area, sold the first copies of Apples to Apples across that counter, builds AI systems for large companies by day and is an award-winning magician by night.

Privacy

Last updated September 28, 2026.

Prompts That Kill is a party card game made by Chris Canfield in Santa Clarita, California. This page says exactly what this website collects, why, and what you can do about it. The short version: we keep your email so we can tell you when the game launches, and we use Meta (Facebook and Instagram) to measure our ads. We never sell your information for money.

What we collect

If you join the kill list: your email, your name if you give it, the page or ad you came from, your browser type, and the date. It is stored in a private storage account we control, and we use it only to email you about Prompts That Kill: the launch, new cards and playtests. When you sign up, The Machine sends you a confirmation email.

If you just browse: this site sets no cookies of its own. The free print-and-play files download without asking for anything. Our fonts load from Google Fonts, so Google sees your IP address when the page loads.

Meta (Facebook and Instagram)

We run ads on Facebook and Instagram, and use the Meta pixel on this site to see whether they work. The pixel tells Meta which of our pages you visit, along with your browser and device details, and sets Meta's own cookie. When you join the kill list, we also tell Meta that a signup happened, with a scrambled (hashed) version of your email, your IP address and your browser, so Meta can match it to an ad you saw. Meta never receives your email address in readable form. Meta uses this under its own privacy policy, including to show our ads to people like you.

Do not sell or share my personal information

We don't sell anyone's information for money. California law does count sending data to Meta for ads as "sharing", and you can opt out of it:

Automatically: if your browser sends the Global Privacy Control signal, this site doesn't load the Meta pixel and doesn't tell Meta about your signup. Browsers like Firefox, Brave and DuckDuckGo can send it.
By email: write to privacy@promptsthatkill.com with "do not share". We'll stop sending anything about you to Meta.

Kickstarter

If you back the game on Kickstarter, your pledge, payment and shipping details are handled by Kickstarter under their privacy policy. We receive what we need to deliver your reward, such as your name, email and shipping address.

How long we keep it, and removing it

We keep your kill-list details until you ask us to remove them. To be removed, reply REMOVE to any email from us, or write to privacy@promptsthatkill.com.

Your rights

Wherever you live, you can ask what we hold about you, ask us to correct it or delete it, and opt out of sharing. Write to privacy@promptsthatkill.com. We'll answer within 45 days, and using these rights never changes how we treat you.

Age

Prompts That Kill is for players 17 and up. This site isn't meant for children, and we don't knowingly collect information from anyone under 16.

Changes

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