Christmas Flabberbash™: Party Card Game

Silent Nights are Officially Over. Welcome to Christmas Flabberbash™.

We created Christmas Flabberbash because we believe that Christmas is better when everyone is laughing together.

All Ages. Zero Mercy.  Engineered to level the playing field... fast enough for kids to win, chaotic and strategic enough to keep the adults hooked all night. (Note: Youngest kids may need a little help reading and understanding some cards, but can fully participate.)

From Intimate Game Night to Total Pandemonium. Plays 3–10 straight from the box. Expand to 20 players with a second deck.

5 Minute Rounds: Play one round, or play all night.  Flexible playtime structured in rapid-fire rounds allows you to choose how long you will play.  

What’s In The Box? (Peppermint and Snowflake Editions)

Every edition of Christmas Flabberbash is produced to commercial tabletop standard.  Engineered to survive spilled eggnog, aggressive table slams, and years of holiday chaos:

• 55 High-Grade Playing Cards: Printed on premium 300gsm cardstock with a smooth protective varnish for easy shuffling and durability.  That includes 32 unique Character Cards and 20 unique Star Cards, along with 3 double-sided reference cards in every box.
• The "5-Minute" Rule Sheet: Clear, illustrated instructions that get your entire family playing before the oven timer goes off.
• Illustrated Holiday Tuckbox: Featuring custom full-color artwork, vibrant gloss accents, and sturdy construction.

Meet the Misfits: 100% Original, Hand-Drawn Character Cards  

Each edition (Peppermint and Snowflake) features 32 unique characters in 4 different Character Groups: Gingerbread, Reindeer, Snowmen, and Elves.

Star Cards Keep the Score and Set the Activities

The object of the game is to collect the most Star Cards.  But you'll also notice that each Star Card has 4 unique activities listed on it, one associated with each Character Group.  These come into play during the Star Bash and Flabberbash, where they match up with the Characters in order to determine the wackiness that will be performed.

Two Editions. Zero Duplicate Characters or Challenges. Combine Them for More Variety and/or Bigger Parties. 

The 20-Player Mega-Party: Both Peppermint and Snowflake decks stand entirely alone as full games, but their mechanics interlock seamlessly. Shuffle them together for huge holiday gatherings, office parties, and extended family reunions.  When combined they support up to 20 players.

Then if you want to separate them out again afterwards, it's easy!  Just sort by the background on the Character and Star Cards (Peppermint = stripes, Snowflake = snowflakes).

Rapid-fire, Hilarious Gameplay

Rounds consist of 3 rapid-fire minigames called BASHES: 1. The Oddball Bash. 2. The Tiebreaker Bash and 3. The Star Bash.  And then at the end of the game (after all the rounds are done) comes the bash to end all bashes, the Flabberbash.  The cards (Character Cards and Star Cards) are used in different ways during different bashes.  Let's break each of the phases down here:

Zero turn downtime. Fast, simultaneous play that keeps up to 20 people engaged at once.  Card flipping competition starts with the Oddball Bash.  Everyone chooses a character card to lay face down, calls out 3-2-1 flip, and the oddball (the rarest card group) wins! 

Look closely at your characters: special roles like Star Stealers and Gift Givers introduce surprise reversal powers during gameplay!

Naughty or nice?  Bluffing, cooperation, and back-stabbing.  If there's a tie in the Oddball Bash, there's another rapid-fire card flip challenge: the Tiebreaker Bash... a holiday prisoner's dilemma mini-game.  Tied players rotate their Character Card to choose Red Nutcracker or Green Tree.  Red Nutcracker tries to steal, while Green Tree cooperates. 

3-2-1 flip!  

• Everyone plays Green: Everyone walks away with a Star Card. Pure holiday cheer!
• One player plays Red: That player steals all the Star Cards for themselves!
• Two or more play Red: Greed backfires! The Reds get nothing, and the cooperative Greens take the loot.

Yes, it's an introduction to a core tenet of game theory, but don't worry about overthinking it.  It's all over in about 10 seconds, and in the end it can just be as easy as choosing Red or Green and seeing what happens. (And you'd be surprised at how often the kids outwit the adults!)

Hilarious holiday antics.  The Star Performer emerges.  The winner of the round now becomes the Judge - evaluating the other players as they perform one at a time, in groups, or all at once. The Judge pairs their character’s unique Modifier (e.g., "Zombie") with the matching activity on their Star Card (e.g., "Slipping on ice while carrying gifts").

The Judge decides if the other players perform one at a time, a few at a time, or all together:

After the wild antics, the Judge crowns the single best Star Performer.

The Reward: Star Performers earn a tactical edge... the right to play two cards in the next Oddball Bash, doubling their odds of winning the next round!

And those three bashes (Oddball, Tiebreaker, and Star) make up one round, which typically lasts between 2 - 5 minutes each.  

Once you've hit your determined number of rounds, it's time for the Grand Finale: the Flabberbash!

Most party games fizzle out when the score is counted. Christmas Flabberbash ends with an explosion. The winning Flabberbash Champion takes the floor for 60 seconds, conducting the room like a chaotic holiday orchestra—pointing at players to trigger their unique Character Card combinations in real time! 

Just try not to laugh.  We dare you.

We’re Not Asking for an Experiment.  We’re Inviting You to the Table.

Why is our funding goal only $2,000?

We set our Kickstarter funding goal low on purpose, because the question Christmas Flabberbash needs to answer isn’t “can we afford to make this?” The game is already made!  It's fully designed, extensively playtested, approved for final print, and our initial production run is already self-funded and underway with our manufacturing partner.

We decided to launch exclusively on Kickstarter to scale appropriately for manufacturing with the goal of delivering product to as many people as possible in time for the holidays.  Everyone who backs us during the live campaign (Nov 4 -18) helps us to establish how large to make our manufacturing order.  And your support will determine not only how much we manufacture, but whether we have enough momentum to carry our product into widespread retail availability and expand with all the future editions and crazy holiday games (Halloween Flabberbash, Thanksgiving Flabberbash, St. Patrick's Day Flabberbash, Christmas Flabberbash the Boardgame, etc.) that we have dreamed up.

We will keep late pledges open after the campaign closes for anyone who discovers us late, but most likely those orders will be assigned to our second production run that won't arrive until 2027.  So if you want Christmas Flabberbash on your table in time for Christmas, back the live campaign before the clock hits zero!

Our Team

A Group of Friends and Family Dedicated to Meaningful Connection

We are a small group with diverse levels of experience (and ages), but a shared passion for making the world a bit more connected.  We've said it before and we will say it again: we created Christmas Flabberbash because we believe that Christmas (and every day) is better when everyone is laughing together.  In a world that seems intent on distracting us and even pulling us apart, our mission is to bring people closer through wholesome, unforgettable moments of togetherness.

We have big hopes and dreams, and we appreciate being associated with likeminded individuals who feel that the world could use more laughter and closer relationships.  Thank you just for visiting this page.  And if you do decide to back us, please know that it means the world to us.

While Coby, Spencer and Mo make up our primary management team, we are incredibly grateful for Audrey's valuable involvement on the promotion side, and Sarah's and Maria's ongoing consulting and reality checks.  And special thanks to our underage consultants Peter and James, who offered brutal but essential "kid" and "teenage" feedback respectively as we navigated game design and aesthetics.

100% Human-Illustrated Art by Coby

Every single character, card face, and box element across both editions was illustrated and colored by hand by our lead designer, Coby - zero generative AI was used on in-game components. (In line with platform transparency standards: AI assistive tools were utilized solely for select promotional marketing assets, supplementary video animation, and theme songs). We have been in awe of his ability and the work he has put in to painstaking bring these wonderful personalities to life.  Without him this game could not exist.

Timeline & Delivery Schedule

Because our files are already locked and manufacturing is underway, our path to your doorstep is as direct and predictable in time for the holidays as we can possibly make it.  We have a US-based manufacturer with the ability to scale up our orders, and a target schedule as follows:

• November 4, 2026: Kickstarter Campaign Launches.
• Mid-November 2026: Active production run completes manufacturing, passes accredited third-party lab safety testing, and transfers to our US fulfillment hub.
• November 18, 2026: Live Campaign Closes. Order counts lock from campaign, and backer address surveys deploy immediately.
• Late November 2026: Rolling Fulfillment Begins. Shipping labels are generated and packages dispatched in the order completed surveys are received.
• December 2026: Holiday Delivery. Priority Batch #1 lands on backer doorsteps nationwide ahead of holiday gatherings.
• January 2027: Batch #2 fulfillment delivers for late-campaign overflow and post-campaign Late Pledges.

Holiday Delivery Allocation Policy (Batch #1 vs. Batch #2): To beat seasonal carrier congestion, units will be fulfilled directly from our active domestic print run on a rolling basis.

• Batch #1 (Holiday Delivery): All live campaign backers become eligible for Priority Batch #1. Fulfillment begins in late November.
• Action Required: Address surveys deploy November 18. Fulfillment queues process in order of survey completion—submit yours immediately so your game enters the carrier pipeline before peak December transit gridlock.
• Batch #2 (Early 2027 Delivery): Backers exceeding our active holiday print cap, along with post-campaign Late Pledges, will deliver in Batch #2. 

Back early to lock in your holiday slot.

A Note on Shipping: To ensure you are charged based on actual, localized carrier rates rather than inflated flat estimates, shipping will be calculated and collected post-campaign directly through Kickstarter’s native pledge manager.

To minimize international customs delays, this campaign ships exclusively to the United States and Canada.

Our Holiday Shipping Commitment:  Priority Batch #1 units are slated for rolling dispatch starting in late November. While carrier weather disruptions and regional courier bottlenecks remain outside any publisher's control during December, our fulfillment queue will strictly prioritize early survey completions to ensure packages enter sorting networks ahead of peak holiday freight deadlines.

Thank you also to our beta testers and video participants!  Alan, Allen family, Becky, Benson family, Bentley family, Bowen, Brooklyn, Bunderson family, Burke, Calvin, Campbell family, Codee, Conley family, Daphne, Darcy, Ellis family, Emilie, Emily, Gore family, Harding family, Hoffer family, Johnson family, Kimball family, Lacey family, Landon, Mann family, Maughn family, McKeown family, Merrill family, Michelle, Nathan, Phoebe, Rich, Robison family, Ryan, Ryker, Sara, & Skyler

Christmas Flabberbash™ and Flabberbash™ Games are trademarks of Flabberbash Games LLC. All character designs, card text, illustrations, and original mechanics © 2026 Flabberbash Games LLC. All rights reserved.