Blanc Manger Coco

Blanc-manger Coco, the successful party game

Released in 2014, Blanc Manger Coco is a party game that has sold more than 1.5 million copies. The designers, Thibault Lorcy and Louis Roudaut, claim their game as "the best game to play while having aperitif" on the market. Although the name originally evokes a Caribbean pastry, Blanc Manger Coco has now left the culinary sphere to enter the world of fun.

Blanc Manger Coco is an atmosphere game with irreverent humour, non-political correctness and transgression. To appreciate it, it's better to love dark humour. To the question: "Is it OK to laugh at everything?" For both creators, the answer is a capital "YES" and they prove it with their game.

Blanc Manger Coco is inspired by the American game Cards Against Humanity, which Louis Roudaut's brother brought back to France after a trip to the United States. The two co-designers then decided to take up the concept again, adapting it to the French language. Blanc Manger Coco was born!

Simple rules

Blanc Manger Coco is based on simple and effective rules. Only a few minutes are needed to assimilate everything there is to know.

The game is based on the principle of the exquisite corpse, a collective writing game invented by Jacques Prévert that consists of composing a sentence without taking into account previous contributions.

In Blanc Manger Coco, the players' objective is to complete a sentence with a hole in it using the answers found on the cards they have in their possession.

The game consists of white cards, the answers, and blue cards, the fill-in-the-blank sentences. Each player has 11 white cards. During a round, one player reads a sentence (blue card) and the other participants have to complete the sentence by selecting the funniest answer, according to them. The answer that makes the reader laugh the most wins the round. Each player, except for the reader, draws a new white card and you’re up for a new round, That's all you need to know in order to play!

To start a game, a minimum of three players is required. There is no maximum number of players. The famous adage "The more the merrier" has never been truer.

Some examples of cards

We've known each other for ten minutes, I think it's... a little premature.

And for madam it will be? ... with a Vittel...

...was mentioned three times in my quarterly assessment...

At 75, ... it's a little late...

...Okay, but with class, dignity and respect...

This small sample gives an overview of the cards to be discovered during evenings with friends. What would be the funniest answers?

A range that keeps growing

Faced with this resounding success, the authors have developed a range of games and expansions that constantly renew the concept. Today the game has more than 4,000 cards spreaded within the complete set.

Blanc Manger Coco (Tome 1): Box containing 600 cards on different themes

Le Déluge (Volume 2): Box containing 600 cards on different themes

La Petite Gâterie (Tome 3) : Box containing 600 cards on the theme of love relationships

Pavlova Coco : Box containing 540 cards with drawings to complete

La Recave : Expansion of 200 cards on different themes

Poteau Rentrant : Expansion of 200 football-themed cards

La Pilule : Expansion of 200 cards on the theme of parenthood

Pot de Départ : Expansion of 200 cards on the theme of work

La Geekerie : 200 cards expansion on the theme of « Geek » culture

Salade, Tomate, Oignon : Expansion of 200 food-themed cards

Culture G : Expansion of 200 cards on the theme of culture

Le Coming Out : Expansion of 200 cards on the theme of the LGBT+ community

Galette Complète : Expansion of 200 cards on the theme of Brittany

La Maîtresse en maillot de bain : Family Version of Blanc Manger Coco

The online version

During the lockdown, the creators of the game didn't stand idly by. Always looking to create social bonds, they decided to put online a 100% free version of the game. This digital version, renamed for the occasion Blanc-manger-coconfinement is available on the Simmer.io platform.

But as nothing will ever replace paper, all the games and expansions of the Blanc Manger Coco range are available at Philibert!