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Illegal

Dealer and buyer at the same time

You are a dealer in illegal goods and a buyer for such goods at the same time and try to collect your coveted goods without being caught out. In Phase One, the Interaction phase, you receive a deck of cards, assembled by the game master, it determines your roles as a dealer and buyer, both of which remain secret to end of the game, and also gives you resources. All players move about in continuously varying groups of two for negotiations and exchange of resources. Every three minutes you return to the table to receive new resources from the game master.

When the game master is out of resources, Phase Two, the Tribunal, begins when all players are back at the table after a final round of negotiations. In Phase Two players represent jury members, witnesses, suspects and judge and openly discuss their suspicions as regards to players’ secret roles. The game master reveals one pair of cards for dealer/buyer after the other and players have one minute to discuss each pair. Then a voting is held and one player is accused formally of representing this combination.

When all pairs have been dealt with, each player reveals his roles and the resources he collected. You receive one victory point for each resource corresponding to your buyer role, one point for each suspect cards that accuses you wrongly and you lose five victory points for each suspect cards that accuses you correctly for a role. Those five points are meant to represent five years in prison.

A fantastic game with a very good mix of negotiation, discretion, persuasion powers and deviousness and therefore with very intense interaction among players.

Players: 5-9

Age: 18+

Time: 25+

Designer: Christophe Boelinger

Artist: David Hueso

Price: ca. 11 Euro

Publisher: Ludically 2014

Web: www.ludically.com

Genre: Deduction, discussion

Users: With friends

Special: Many players

Version: multi

Rules: de en es fr nl pt

In-game text: no

Comments:

Very good game of communication

Well-working mix of deviousness and deductions

Plays quickly due to time limit

Compares to:

Diplomacy for negotiations in varying groups

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 3

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 3

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0