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In 2017, Michael Mordenga created "Sunday School Answers", the first family-friendly Christian alternative to Cards Against Humanity (which was passed on to us in 2021). In 2018, Radio Matt & Mo created "Judge Not", the first Christian alternative to The Voting Game. Both games are designed for family or fellowship game nights to build relationships on the bedrock of laughter. And maybe a little mocking.

our Games & expansions

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The Original Christian Knock-Off of CAH! (All of our expansions are compatible with other games of this genre.)
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Sunday school answers
core deck (2021 update)

400 Cards
Established in 2017 by Michael Mordenga, Sunday School Answers is the original Christian knock-off / parody of C.A.H.! After years of self-publishing and original expansions sold in bags, we have redesigned and relaunched our game with some of the best Dilemma and Answer cards we've ever written (as well as some fresh new cards too). Our game is compatible with most versions of this kind of game also!
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Sunday School Answers+

616 Cards
This PLUS Edition of our Core Deck comes with 7 Expansion Decks and Booster Packs built in to jam this box completely full! Buying them all together in this box will save you almost 25%!

The Expansions included are:

  1. The Back Row Baptist Deck
  2. The Meme Deck
  3. The Rip-Off Deck
  4. The Holy Veggies Pack
  5. The Music Pack
  6. The Parenting Pack
  7. The Cool Youth Pastor Pack
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Sunday School Answers (Love Thy nerd Edition)

613 Cards
The Love Thy Nerd Edition is a Core Deck made completely of some of our nerdier expansions! (To be clear, it does NOT include the cards in our original Core Deck.)

The Box is made up of the following Expansions and Boosters:

  1. The Nerd Deck
  2. The Gamer Deck
  3. The Superhero Deck
  4. The Food Deck
  5. The Jabroni Deck
  6. The Meme Deck
  7. The 2020 Deck
  8. The Weird News Deck
  9. The Spoiler Deck
  10. The LTNcon 2021 Exclusive Pack
  11. The TV Booster Pack
  12. The Holy Veggies Pack
  13. A few Your Dumb Ideas Cards
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The White Box

266 Cards
With 266 new cards, this is our largest expansion to the Core game yet! This expansion is even big enough to play several games without repeating cards - it's a great box to buy if you want to "test the waters" before investing in the Core Game and all our other Expansions and Boosters.
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The Blue Box

266 Cards
Coming January 2023!
Coming 2023
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The Christmas edition

265 Cards
The Christmas Edition is so large that you can play it without the Core Deck! This box was carefully built by hand-selecting the best cards from the older version of SSA's small Christmas Deck and then adding almost 200 more brand new Christmas-themed cards written by Mo (and her husband, Chris) and a few by Radio Matt too. Enjoy this labor of love!
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The Meme Deck

50 Cards
Authorized Memes James, better known as MJV, is a Christian Meme page by Youth Pastor James Newcomer. His goal, besides becoming Hokage, is to brighten your day with hilarious and edgy memes from the Christian perspective. We are honored to have collaborated with James Newcomer on the Meme deck! Find him on the socials (@AuthorizedMemesJames) for more of the MJV brand of Christian hilarity.
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The Superhero Deck

50 Cards
Faith & Fandom is a book series of devotional essays on Faith & Geek Culture by Hector Miray. Bible studies on Video Games, Comics, Anime, Manga, Superheroes, TV, Movies, & Pop Culture at large. There is also the Faith & Fandom podcast, comicon appearances, and - well, far too many projects to list here! We are honored to collaborate with Hector to create this deck. Check out FaithAndFandom.org for more info!
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The Food Deck

50 Cards
The Back Row Morning Show is the exclusive morning show for Love Thy Nerd's LTN Radio hosted by Radio Matt & Mo. Beginning with the popular Twitter character "Back Row Baptist", the comedy trail eventually led to this daily morning show - with one of their weekly segments being a celebration of junk food! Follow them on all the socials and hear the show at LTNonair.com and your podcast app!
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The Nerd deck (double expansion)

105 Cards
Love Thy Nerd exists to be the love of Jesus to nerds and nerd culture through thoughtful content, relational outreach, and intentional community. And one of their favorite ways to build community is playing games together. Several members of the LTN Community contributed to this special super-sized expansion pack. Learn more about LTN at LoveThyNerd.com and all the socials.
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The Rip-Off Deck (Sabbath Academic Resolutions)

50 Cards
Michael Mordenga was the original rip-off artist to the shameful game of Cards Against Humanity. Now he is ripping off himself to make sure you know that this game is so good it's worth stealing twice. He will forever be known as the first rip-off hero to CAH and creator of the 2nd best rip-off to Sunday School Answers.
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The Back Row Baptist Deck

50 Cards
Back Row Games is just one of several projects that all spawned from one original church comedy Twitter account - Back Row Baptist. Though the account no longer exists, the humor it spread into the world lives on in morning shows, Facebook groups, card games, parody songs, videos, and books. Once in the top tier of Twitter Church Anon accounts, we're sharing cards inspired by some of our best tweets.
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The Jabroni Deck

50 Cards
The Two Words Podcast is the official pro-wrestling podcast from the Love Thy Nerd Podcast Network, hosted by John Birkey and Radio Matt. From the days of the WWF v WCW Monday Night Wars to the new rivalry between AEW v NXT - and beyond - this deck brings out the Mega Powers in all of us! Whether you were in the DX Army, if you were nWo 4 life, or if you bled Bullet Club, this deck is for you.
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2020: The Worst Year Ever Deck

50 Cards
2020 was supposed to be the best year ever. It was supposed to be the year of clarity. The year of hope. The year of growth. The year of vision. What we got instead was political upheaval, riots, racism, and a freaking global pandemic. But that doesn't mean there also wasn't plenty to laugh about too. This expansion is here to squeeze all the funny out of our memories of 2020 that we can.
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​THE 2021 PACK

18 Cards
We know you loved the 2020 Deck, and 2021 felt like such a natural extension of everything we hated about 2020 - consider this your Booster Shot!
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the cool youth pastor pack

18 Cards
You know who else is a core element we need in our lives in order to play to our fullest potential? That's right. *chuckle* It's Jesus. Grab our new Cool Youth Pastor booster pack and relive the glory days!
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THE holy veggies PACK

18 Cards
Do you like to converse with tomatoes? Can a squash produce a feeling of elation that is visible on your face? Have you ever had the compulsion to dance the waltz with a starchy potato, or maybe several? Then have we got a booster pack for you.
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the y2k pack

18 Cards
Remember the lead up to 2000? From Christian hucksters claiming Jesus would be returning to computer nerds freaking out that airplanes might fall out of the sky! Laugh at our fear, 22 years later!
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The TV Pack

18 Cards
The TV Booster is all about the shows we all love or love to hate. Did we reference your favorite show? Only one way to find out.
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The 90's Pack

18 Cards
Remember the 90s? Why deal with today's problems when you can bathe in sweet, sweet nostalgia??
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The Music Pack

18 Cards
​Everybody loves music! This pack is inspired by our musical habits and the music industry!
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The Sports Pack

16 Cards
​No matter what ball you like hurled through what apparatus, you'll love this sports-themed addition to the main game!
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The Parenting PACK

18 Cards
Parenting is a grand adventure! Some days, you feel like super parents. Some days, you feel like drop-kicking a toddler. No judgment. Laugh at your pain with this booster deck!
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the your dumb ideas pack (Blank cards)

18 Cards
​Look, we hear ya. How dare we not create a card specifically about that inside joke of yours from youth camp '99 or the way your dad eats his eggs with sugar and Tabasco! Well, now you can make your card official! 18 blank cards to write yourself and add to your larger game!
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The Gamer Deck (Double Expansion)

105 Cards
Love Thy Nerd exists to be the love of Jesus to nerds and nerd culture through thoughtful content, relational outreach, and intentional community. And one of their favorite ways to build community is playing games together. Several members of the LTN Community contributed to this special super-sized expansion pack. Learn more about LTN at LoveThyNerd.com and all the socials.
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The Spoiler Alert Deck

36 Cards
Inspired by a random conversation with Bubba Stallcup of Love Thy Nerd, we bring to you a deck where every answer is a spoiler! Now, most of these are well-known and famous spoilers, and so the risk of you actually having something spoiled for you is really dependent an how dedicated of a nerd you are.
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The Weird News Deck

50 Cards
In a fun experiment, The Back Row Morning Show built a deck of Sunday School Answers cards based on REAL weird news stories they shared on the show! And yes, there are some wacko cards in here. Rejoice in knowing they are based in reality - and weep for humanity.
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the expansion storage box (no cards)

0 Cards
Just a box. Holds your extra cards in style.
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The Christian Game of Specks and Planks! (The Original Christian Parody of The Voting Game!)
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Judge Not core deck (2019 update)

321 Cards
It's the Christian party game that finally lets you judge and gossip about your closest friends right to their face. In this game, you take turns playing judge and jury and decide who is to blame for the offenses listed (i.e. pointing out specks in others' eyes while ignoring planks in your own). This is the only Christian game where you'll either become closer friends or never want to talk to each other again! (We're hoping for the former!) Court is in session!
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Object the Halls!

101 Cards
It's the Christian CHRISTMAS party game that finally lets you judge and gossip about your closest friends right to their face. In this game, you take turns playing judge and jury and decide who is to blame for the offenses listed (i.e. pointing out specks in others' eyes while ignoring planks in your own).
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Oversaved & Overruled

68 Cards
It's AN EXPANSION TO the Christian party game that finally lets you judge and gossip about your closest friends right to their face. In this game, you take turns playing judge and jury and decide who is to blame for the offenses listed (i.e. pointing out specks in others' eyes while ignoring planks in your own).
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Poll the Jury!

50 Cards + 3 Dice
NEW WITH THIS EXPANSION: "Poll the Jury" questions, where each juror is asked a question and must vote honestly on a scale of 1 to 10. A roll of the dice determines if they will get a point, lose a point, or coast by. Also, we've added the "Tie Die", to be used in case two people are voted for the same number of times. Now a roll of the die will determine how the tie is broken!
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Fabricated Evidence (D.I.Y. Cards)

18 Cards
If you love "Judge Not" but wish you could make your own cards to add to the game, now you can! Consider this your own private expansion pack!
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our other projects

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Punishment Deck

This is NOT a game.
No, this is something MORE. This is a way to spice up nearly ANY party game - by adding punishments for the losers of each round!
This deck can seriously be attached to thousands of games as punishments or dares, and it will surely add incentive to win!
These punishments are family-friendly and can be pulled off with just the things you'd typically have in your home already.
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back row baptist

Sunday morning has come. You and up to 3 of your friends (or teams) were stuck behind a big order at the McDonald's drive through and now you've walked in just a few minutes before service starts. From the front of the sanctuary, you see there is only ONE open seat left in the Back Row, and you all want it. In this classic style trivia board game, you will leap pews, avoid deacons, and prove you've got the Biblical acumen that justifies your choice in Sunday morning seating. Ultimately, your goal is simple - roll the dice and be the first one to reach the goal.
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Church Kerfuffle

Sometimes, disagreements in the church escalate to where there's only on way to solve the issue: A church split. But that is always a messy, messy affair. How can we choose sides fair without such a drastic outcome? How about we break out the flannel graphs, build ourselves two fighters, and have a kerfulffle?! In this game you go head-to-head in a battle for who has the most dominant make-believe fighter, making your case for supremacy, and the spectators choose who wins. Plays like Superfight.
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