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Personal Preference

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Personal Preference is a party board game created by the psychologist Donal Carlston and first published in 1987. Players try to guess how another player has privately ranked a set of items, such as foods, activities, or well-known people, from most to least preferred. Correctly predicting another player's personal tastes earns points, making the game a light social exercise in judging what other people like rather than a contest of memorized facts. The game was released in the United States by Broderbund, in Canada by Playtoy Industries, and in Britain by Parker Brothers International. Carlston revived the design decades later, launching an updated edition on Kickstarter in 2023 with refreshed categories and more current cultural references, while keeping the original guess-the-preference mechanic intact.

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Game Type (category)
Party Game 1
Origin Year
1987 1
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1. Personal Preference (Wikipedia)
  • Lead section, publication year
    Personal Preference is a 1987 board game created by Donal Carlston
  • Lead section, game description
    involves guessing the order in which a player prefers foods, activities, people, and other items compared to one another
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