POSTULATE

Postulate is a debate card game about arguing for and against wild, stupid, funny and important postulates. Each five-minute round offers a new postulate, a new role and a new mission for the four participants.

The Postulates

The Postulates are a mishmash of everyday opinions, pop cultural, ethical and culinary viewpoints, such as “Love is blind”, “Slytherin is the best house” and “There should be whipped cream on the brownies”. It goes without saying that you do not personally have to agree with your own argument.

The Roles

There are four roles in Postulate that change between participants each round: Advocate and Opponent, Provocateur and Diplomat.

• The Advocate always starts the round by defending the round’s respective postulate.
• The Opponent must argue against the postulate and is the advocate’s solar opposite.
• The Provocateur is a devil’s advocate, an anarchist who can turn everything upside down.
• The Diplomat tries to find a middle ground and smooth things over between the debaters.

The Missions

Each role has a deck of mission cards. Once the postulate has been drawn, each player draws a mission and keeps it secret from the other players. A mission could be, for example: “Get the Diplomat to repeat a word you have said” or “Use the words artwork, dolphin and oil sheik naturally in your argument” or “Make your argument sound like a conspiracy theory”.

The game

Postulate lasts four rounds of five minutes, and each round is simply about arguing for and against a postulate and ensuring that you fulfill your mission along the way. When the five minutes are up, each participant has a vote for the person they thought did the best (and no, you can’t vote for yourself). Each round you can get from zero to three points, plus one point for your mission. After four rounds, a winner is found and you are now free to tell what you REALLY think about whipped cream on a brownie.

Postulate is half an hour of semi-serious fun for the chatty Fastaval goer.