If you're an art lover, owning an original Pablo Picasso must rank right up there with owning a Bugatti Veyron if you're a gearhead or obtaining a piece of toast Niall Horan didn't finish if you're a One Direction fan. 
 
 So imagine being an art lover of the most supreme order and hearing that one of your fellow art buyers plans to turn an original Picasso into a 150,000-piece jigsaw puzzle. You'd probably lose consciousness. 
 
 That's just one possible outcome for Picasso's "Tete de Faune" (translation: Head of a Faun). Cards Against Humanity, the game company based out of Chicago, purchased an original of the 1962 Picasso linocut for an undisclosed amount and will let supporters of its most recent holiday promotion decide whether the artwork goes to a museum or faces the business end of a laser-cutting machine. 
 
 Contacted by CNET, Max Temkin, co-creator of Cards Against Humanity, declined to comment on the Picasso print. 
 
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 Cards Against Humanity, if you've never played the party game, has participants answer questions written on black cards with the funniest and often most offensive answers they can think of from a stash of white cards. 
 
 Subscribers to the company's recent Eight Sensible Gifts for Hanukkah promotion recently received an envelope in their mailboxes. The envelope contained a handwritten letter from "David M.'s dad" on the importance of culture, a second "Jew Pack" of special Cards Against Humanity cards, and a smooth card bearing Picasso's artwork. The back of the card says in bold letters, "Today, you are all going to be part of a social experiment." Insert the "Saw" theme music here. 
 
 The card goes on to say that the company used the money it raised from the 150,000 subscribers to the Hanukkah promotion to purchase Picasso's "Tete de Faune" for the express purpose of either donating it to the Art Institute of Chicago or cutting it up into 150,000 squares and sending a piece (clearly a teeny tiny one) to each subscriber. 
 
 Those participating in the holiday promotion will be able to vote on the fate of the artwork by going to a website sometime between Saturday, December 28 and Thursday, December 31, and casting their votes using a code printed on the card. If enough fans vote "thumbs down," the linocut goes against a laser cutter. 
 
 This easily surpasses the cool big gift subscribers received from last year's holiday promotion. CAH purchased an island located on St. George Lake in Liberty, Maine, that it dubbed "Hawaii 2," and it sent ownership paperwork for one square foot of land to each subscriber. 
 
 I have to admit I'm really torn about this one. As a culture appreciator, I don't want to see a work of art by one of the world's greatest artists sliced up like a deep-dish pizza. However, as someone who paid for eight Hanukkah gifts from Cards Against Humanity, I also want to receive all eight gifts. And don't give me that crud about how knowing that you saved a priceless work of art is its own reward. You can't bring "peace of mind" to Best Buy for a refund, even if you still have the receipt. ||||| The makers of Cards Against Humanity, the mildly risque party game, have another publicity stunt up their sleeves: They're threatening to cut up an original Pablo Picasso artwork. 
 
 "Tete de Faune," a 1962 linocut of a faun's head by Picasso, was purchased by the pranksters using cash from 150,000 customers who each gave $15 toward Cards Against Humanity's "Eight Sensible Gifts for Hanukkah" promotion. 
 
 It says the 150,000 subscribers will be able to vote whether the artwork will be donated to the Art Institute of Chicago or cut up with a laser into 150,000 1.5-mm squares and shared among them. 
 
 Asked Tuesday whether he had the guts to follow through on the gimmick, one of the company's founders, Max Temkin, declined to comment. 
 
 Cards Against Humanity has not disclosed how much it paid for the artwork, which is one of an edition of 50. But in 2008, an identical linocut sold at auction for $22,000. 
 
 The Art Institute did not immediately respond to requests for comment. 
 
 Cards Against Humanity previously used part of the money it raised through the Hanukkah promotion to buy the Chinese factory workers who make its game a week off work. It declined to say whether it would repeat the gesture, or whether the paid vacation was simply a one-off. 
 
 The company's philanthropy efforts have also included buying an island in Maine that it dubbed "Hawaii 2" and vowed to preserve as wilderness, and a $500,000 donation toward scholarships for women studying in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math. 
 
 Founded with a small Kickstarter campaign in 2010, Cards Against Humanity is an adult fill-in-the-blanks game that has proved a big hit with consumers and critics. 
 
 While the Picasso stunt is certain to infuriate some, it pales when compared to the art prank created by members of British 1990s pop group KLF, who burned a million pounds in cash — nearly their entire career earnings — in 1994. 
 
 kjanssen@tribpub.com 
 
 Twitter @kimjnews ||||| How would you like to own one-fifteen thousandth of a Picasso? That's what Cards Against Humanity (CAH) is asking the 150,000 customers who subscribed to its Eight Sensible Gifts For Hanukkah. Sort of. 
 
 Each year, the irreverent, Kickstarter-funded card game offers a holiday special card pack of sorts. This year, it was the Hanukkah themed Eight Sensible Gifts consisting of eight individual presents mailed out over the course of the eight-night Jewish holiday. Last year the CAH team gave away one square foot of a private island in Maine to the 250,000 participants in the Ten Days or Whatever of Kwanzaa. Like we said, they're irreverent. 
 
 For Hanukkah, CAH's first three "gifts" were all pairs of socks. Then came a membership to WBEZ, Chicago's NPR station, and a one-week paid vacation for workers at CAH's Chinese printing partner. But the seventh gift is when things get interesting. 
 
 Donate it to a museum or cut it into 150,000 tiny squares 
 
 The Cards Against Humanity crew used some of the $2.25 million in revenue it made from the Hanukkah product to buy Tête de Faune (Head of a Faun), an original 1962 Picasso. CAH is offering its customers a chance to vote on what should happen to the painting: donate it to the Art Institute of Chicago, or "laser-cut it into 150,000 tiny squares and send everyone their own scrap of a real Picasso." 
 
 A little sleuthing shows that the Picasso in question may be this signed print, purchased for 14,000 Swiss francs (about $14,100) from Swiss auction house Koller this past June. The CAH website includes this video of what appears to be the Picasso print being laser scanned. 
 
 Voting begins on the day after Christmas and runs through the end of the year, and you must have purchased the Eight Sensible Gifts to participate. Cards Against Humanity founder Max Temkin refused to share any additional information about the Picasso until "after the votes are in." 
 
 We would say "we know you'll do the right thing, internet," but knowing the Cards Against Humanity target audience, we're not sure what to expect.
– Should Pablo Picasso's "Tete de Faune" be donated to a museum or cut up into tiny pieces? The decision rests with fans of Cards Against Humanity—the game that's managed to get people to spend their hard-earned cash on poop and, well, nothing at all. With some of the $2.25 million received from 150,000 subscribers who signed up for the company's "Eight Sensible Gifts for Hanukkah" promotion—which included the gift of a one-week paid vacation for workers at the Chinese factory where Cards Against Humanity is made—the company purchased the 1962 Picasso linocut known in English as "Head of a Faun" and decided to host a "social experiment," report CNET and the Verge. It asked the subscribers to vote on whether the work should be donated to the Art Institute of Chicago or cut into 150,000 pieces so each subscriber can have their "own scrap of a real Picasso." Should fans choose the latter option, each scrap of the linocut—one of an edition of 50, likely worth about $22,000, per the Chicago Tribune—will measure 1.5mm, the company says. Subscribers will vote from Dec. 26 until New Year's Eve. So far Cards Against Humanity founder Max Temkin has kept his lips sealed about whether he'll actually follow through with the stunt. But the company did something awfully similar last year, giving a square foot of an island to each of 250,000 fans who signed up for its "Ten Days or Whatever of Kwanzaa" campaign. While subscribers weigh their decisions, Temkin and partners are busy working on another game, Secret Hitler, which just wrapped up a $1.2 million Kickstarter campaign, per the Tribune. Players are assigned political identities and attempt to enact supporting policies while keeping their identities secret. It's expected to ship to 30,000 backers in April. (There's also this sex game.)