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CardsAgainstKim Jong Un

A party game for suspicious hiring managers

Companies keep accidentally hiring North Korean operatives as remote engineers. One of the things that trips them up is being asked to insult their leader — so we made a card game out of it. 456 cards. One gold card that stops everything.

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Loyalty test in progress

Say something bad about Kim Jong Un.

Three seconds. Out loud, in your own words. No hesitating, no repeating anyone, no reading.

The joke is that it works

Thousands of North Korean IT workers have talked their way into remote jobs at Western companies using stolen identities, AI-retouched headshots, and laptops parked in American garages. Interviewers found that asking a candidate to say something rude about Kim Jong Un ends some of those calls instantly.

It is a real thing that real security people really do, and it is also the single funniest detection heuristic ever committed to a conference stage. This deck takes the premise completely seriously and the subject matter not at all.

It is not a hiring control, and we would rather you didn't use it as one. Here is what actually works, with sources.

Play a hand

A hand from the real deck, free, no account. Pick the answer you'd actually play — then imagine reading it out loud. The full game has 456 cards.

Interrogation

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How it plays

Standard judge-picks-the-funniest, until a gold card turns the table on everyone at once.

  1. Read the charge

    The Inspector draws a red Interrogation card and reads it out, blanks and all.

  2. Submit an alibi

    Everyone else plays a cream Alibi card face down. The Inspector reads them all aloud.

  3. Earn trust

    Funniest answer takes the card. First to seven Trust gets hired and wins.

  4. Pass the loyalty test

    Draw a gold card and play stops. Everyone insults Kim Jong Un in three seconds or gets detained.

Then there is the Operative: deal a secret role and one player is forbidden to insult him at all. They have to fake it convincingly while everyone else works out who they are. It is the whole security problem, as a party game.

Three ways to get it

The printed decks are made to order, one at a time. The online deck is instant and includes everything.

The printed base deck box

The base deck

 

348 cards. Printed and shipped to order by The Game Crafter — no inventory, no minimum.

  • 78 Interrogation and 252 Alibi cards
  • 12 gold Loyalty Tests
  • 6 Role cards for the Operative variant
  • Rules and the four reference cards
Buy the base deck
The After Hours expansion box

After Hours

 

108 rude cards. An expansion, not a game — you need the base deck to play it.

  • 18 Interrogation and 90 Alibi cards
  • Identical backs, so nobody sees one coming
  • An AFTER HOURS badge on every face, so you know what you played
  • Genuinely not for the all-hands
Buy the expansion
Three cards from the deck

The online deck

$1.99

Everything above, including After Hours. One payment, no account, works on the phone you're holding.

  • All 456 cards, pass-and-play around one screen
  • Loyalty tests with a real three-second countdown
  • Secret role dealing for the Operative variant
  • The print-and-play PDF, if you'd rather make it yourself