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Hoax

The best lier will win!

The legacy of millionaire Vargas must be distributed; each of the potential heirs wants to reveal the others as swindlers and be the only true heir the end.

Identities are secret and you must pretend to be someone else without revealing your real identity and, at the same time, try to find out the real identity of others. You begin the game with a secret identity card and a resources marker of your choice.

As active player, you can implement three action options in any order:

1. Claim - this you must do; you name a character and use his ability. If someone accuses you of lying, all players first discuss and then vote; if the majority believes that you lied, you must reveal your real character and have either won because you told the truth, or you must take an Impostor Token and put it on your reference sheet on the character that you falsely claimed to be, you can never again claim to be this character during the rest of the game.

2. Investigate - this you do several times, you discard any resource marker for each investigation; you see four suspicion cards of the targeted person, among them the on with his real identity.

3. Accuse - only one per turn! You hand the suspicion card of the identity you suspect him to have to the targeted person; if the suspicion card corresponds to his character card, he says “yes” without naming the character and is eliminated. If he says “no”, you are eliminated yourself.

Cute, communicative, challenging - you can neither make notes nor pass on information on cards you did see; Hoax gets more thrilling with each additional game, experienced players can add Immunities to the rules.

Players: 3-6

Age: 14+

Time: 20+

Designer: Bill Eberle, Ned Horn, Jack Kittredge, Peter Olotka

Artist: Lucas Soriano Beltrán, Team

Price: ca. 13 Euro

Publisher: Heidelberger Spieleverlag 2016

Web: www.heidelbaer.de

Genre: Bluff, secret identities

Users: With friends

Version: de

Rules: de en

In-game text: yes

Comments:

New edition, first edition Eon1981

Some gaming experience is advantageous

You cannot make notes

Compares to:

Bluff games on identities, earlier editions of Hoax

Other editions:

Fantasy Flight Games (en)

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 3

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0