Though it has been played by adults in organized groups worldwide, 1000 Blank White Cards is also described as well-suited for children in Hoyle's Rules of Games.

Some may bear artwork, writing or other game-relevant content created during past games, with a reasonable stock of cards that are blank at the start of gameplay.

One sample convention suggests the following:[citation needed] Play proceeds clockwise beginning with the player on the dealer's left.

Retaining and replaying those cards which seem at the moment less than perfect can help reduce a certain stagnation and tendency to over-think that can otherwise overtake the game's momentum.

All players present then vote (sometimes lobbying for their cases), and the card either goes into The Suck Box or gets to remain in the primary deck.

Cards may be created with any marking medium and need not conform to any conventions of size or content unless specified within the scope of the game.

The game does tend to fall into structural conventions, of which the following is a good example: A card consists (usually) of a title, a picture and a description of its effect.

The game can also encode algorithms (trivially functioning as a Turing machine), store real-world data, and hold or refer to non-card objects.

[2] He introduced "The game of 1000 blank white cards" a few days later into a mixed group including students, improvisational theatre members and club kids.

Initial play sessions were frequent and high energy, but a fire consumed the regular venue shortly after the game's introduction.

[5] The game physically survived but with the loss of their regular meeting place the majority of the original players fell out of contact with one another, and soon most had moved on to other cities.

Various celebrities have also contributed cards to the game, including musicians Ben Folds and Jonatha Brooke, and cartoonist Bill Plympton.