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Is she slagging her best friend?

This is one of the more harmless rumors, when the grapevine is buzzing at the games table. 110 cards carry more or less malicious, spiteful or below-the-belt statements which need to be spread among players. Each player holds a “catty” chip with a “yes” and a “no” side.

In each round, one player is the current mastermind; he draws a card, adds a player’s name to the statement and reads the statement - I have heard a rumor that xxx won’t give in in a dispute or ... that xxx drives when drunk or ... that xxx is wearing long johns or ... that xxx does not respond well to criticism. If you are the victim named, you secretly select the Yes side of the catty chip, if you believe that the majority of neutral players will agree with the rumor; the neutral players also select yes, if they consider the rumor believable. The mastermind scores, when the majority votes yes, the victim scores in case of a majority vote for no, neutral players score when their vote correlates with that of the victim.

In addition, the rules suggest that the loser of the game, the player having the lowest score, that is, must suffer a penalty, which of course can be distinctively suggestive, as are most of the rumors in the game.

Already from this suggestions and from the other note in the rules - the mastermind should select a victim for whom the rumor might be true to make sure that he can score - you can deduce that it is useful in this game and a lot more fun, when players know each other well - so that you can laugh about a really absurd rumor and vote with tongue in cheek; in case of total strangers it is less funny.

Players: 3-8

Age: 16+

Time: 30+

Designer: not named

Artist: not named

Price: ca. 13 Euro

Publisher: Noris Spiele 2018

Web: www.noris-spiele.de

Genre: Statement assessing 

Users: With friends

Special: Many players

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Familiar mechanisms

Adults only

Fun in player relates to composition of group

Compares to:

Privacy and other statement assessment games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow):10

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 3

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0