Rotten Apples (card game) Rotten Apples (card game) Rotten Apples is a card game played by two or more players. The game is developed by No Kidding Pty Ltd. It shares some similarities to Apples to Apples but is aimed at older gamers. The game uses a small deck of brown cards, and a large deck of green cards. Each brown card contains a sentence with a missing word. The green cards contain random words that are used to fill the missing word. The players are dealt ten green cards each. The player whose birthday is on or closest to January 4 becomes the
Apples to Apples year. It was also named "Party Game of the Year" in the December 1999 issue of "Games" magazine and received the National Parenting Center's seal of approval in May 1999. The popularity of the game led to an increased interest in similar card-matching/answer-judging party games. On September 8, 2007, Out of the Box Publishing sold the rights for "Apples to Apples" to Mattel. The original boxed set contained: Four expansion sets were available adding 72 extra green apple cards and 216 extra red apple cards each. In 2002, "Expansion Set 3" won the Origins Award for "Best Card Game Expansion