Priorities

Gameplay

Priorities is a card game that seeks to expose just how well you know your friends. Simply flip over five of the 200 Culture cards, each with one random everyday item listed, and choose one person to rank them in order of their own personal priority on the provided dry erase board. Then, the remaining players must rearrange the cards to what they think matches what’s on the dry erase board.

How would your friend rank slippers against kittens? Spray cheese against millennials? Recycling against spicy food? It’s not as easy as you might think!

Once players have finalized an order, check your answers. For every correct ranking, players get to keep the card and flip it over—each card has one of the letters in “priorities”—to try and build the word PRIORITIES. For every incorrect ranking, The Game keeps the card. Players must spell out PRIORITIES before The Game does!

History

Priorities started out in London with Clarendon Games, a London-based independent game publisher. Clarendon Games was founded by Will Sorrell in 2012, when he quit his job in product development to design board games with one goal in mind: to bring people together and make them laugh. Hasbro partnered with Clarendon Games in 2023 to publish and distribute Priorities in the United States.

Variations

Hasbro also created a variation of Priorities based on the popular fantasy book by Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing. The rules are the same—though the player who’s chosen to rank their priorities is called the Wingleader, and the rest of the players are the Iron Squad—but all the Culture Cards feature favorites from the first three Empyrean books!