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Family

Liar

Reward

Friend

Mentor

Contest

Rival

Distraction

Forbidden

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4

7

2

5

8

3

6

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Problem

Desire

Disaster

Prank

Triumph

Embarrass

Laying an egg

2

Playing video games with swollen fingers

3

Taking a selfie

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Finishing my homework

4

Building a snowcave

5

Running from a Yeti

6

Teleporting

7

Being swallowed by a whale

8

Wrestling a crocodile

9

Hurtling through space

10

Dueling a pirate

12

Unleashing my pūkanaA pūkana is the stare used when performing a haka.

11

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The Forbidden City

13

A huge Chinese palace that was off-limits for 500 years

The WharenuiA meeting house

14

A faleA Sāmoan house

15

The underworld

16

A ruined castle

17

The haunted forest

18

A carnivorous garden

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A putrid swamp

The principal’s office

21

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Mission Control

22

The end of the rainbow

23

The Internet

24

A dragon

25

A cursed guitar

26

A steaming hāngī

27

A Battle-Moa

28

The KrakenA huge, many-armed sea monster

29

A fart-gun

30

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A nuclear bomb

31

Handcuffs

32

Sharp talons

33

X-ray vision

34

Burning burps

35

A ball of earwax

36

A hover scooter

37

A crusty beard

38

Toilet paper

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Christmas at a stranger’s house

40

My weird brother

41

Your imaginary girlfriend

42

The boogie monster

43

MāuiA mythological hero famous for his trickery and exploits

44

A peaceful kick-boxer

45

Dad

46

Dolphins rising up against humanity

47

A professional hide-and-seeker

48

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A space-rock collector

49

A know-it-all sister

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Cards of Awesome was produced for the Ministry of Education by Chrometoaster:

• Game design — Robert Whitaker• Writing — Nic Gorman• Design — Aaron McKirdy• Illustration — Gavin Mouldey• Creative direction — Dave Turnbull• Education consultancy — Michael Absolum and Ian Stevens

from Evaluation Associates.

The ideas on the cards were developed with groups of boys from Te Aro School (Wellington) and St. Patrick’s College (Wellington).

Blank card templates, alternate rules, and much more can be found at

awesome.tki.org.nz

Text and illustrations copyright © Crown 2014 released under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 2.0 license.

This means you can share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material) as you’d like under the following conditions:

• Attribute: You give appropriate credit for the source material.• Non-commercial: You may not use the material for commercial purposes.• Share-alike: If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must

distribute your contributions under the same license.

Cards of Awesome is derived from the Creative Commons licensed game Cards Against Humanity, produced by Cards Against Humanity LLC.

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