Cards Against Humanity was created by a group of eight friends from Highland Park High School near Chicago: Max Temkin, Josh Dillon, Ben Hantoot, David Munk, Daniel Dranove, Eli Halpern, Eliot Weinstein, and David Pinsof.

Origin of the game

  • The creators originally designed the game as a homemade party game to play at New Year’s gatherings with their friends.
  • It was first shared online as a free printable PDF around 2008, where it quickly spread and attracted tens of thousands of downloads.

From hobby to hit

  • After the early online popularity, the group ran a Kickstarter campaign in 2010 to fund a printed version, vastly exceeding their initial funding goal.
  • The commercially printed edition launched in 2011 and went on to become a best‑selling party game on major platforms like Amazon.

Key creator spotlight

  • Max Temkin is often singled out publicly as a co‑founder and prominent designer, frequently mentioned in interviews and profiles about Cards Against Humanity.
  • The company that publishes the game, Cards Against Humanity, LLC, is owned and operated collectively by the same eight original co‑creators.

TL;DR: Cards Against Humanity was not made by one person; it was created by an eight‑member friend group (Temkin, Dillon, Hantoot, Munk, Dranove, Halpern, Weinstein, Pinsof) who turned a party joke into a massively popular party game.

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