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Agent Undercover

Who is the agent at the embassy?

25 locations are featured, seven card for a location and an identical secret agent card for a top card are in a cover slip as location deck, in a way that you see the backside of the location cards on one side and the top of the secret agent card on the other side.

For a round the starting player chooses a deck, reduces the number of cards to the number of players – starting at the bottom of the deck – and shuffles the remaining cards backside up, nobody must see the front side of the cards, also not the starting player, who then deals the cards to players. Everybody checks his card – players are either the secret agent or have a defined role at tone of the locations, maybe radio operator or biologist at the Polar Station. Then players ask questions of each other, the agent tries to find out where he is and the others try to unmask the agent.

The more you manage to answer within the limits of your current role without giving away too much, the more interesting the game becomes, but you need act within the role. Anytime during the round you can interrupt the game and utter a suspicion.

After an agreed amount of time all must utter a suspicion. Points are scored according to the correctness of the suspicion and the time when the suspicion was voiced. Then a new round is played with a new location deck; after the agreed number of rounds you win with most points.

Agent Undercover is a fantastic game, it is no wonder that a great number of companies has picked up the game worldwide; even declared non-communication- games players have fun with this question-answer exchange; it is really fun to try to learn a lot without giving much away.

Players: 3-8

Age: 12+

Time: 60+

Designer: Alexandr Ushan

Artist: Uildrim, Sergey Dulin

Price: ca. 25 Euro

Publisher: Piatnik 2015

Web: www.piatnik.com

Genre: Deduction, party

Users: With friends

Special: Many players

Version: multi

Rules: de hu + cz en fr it and others

In-game text:

Comments:

Variable playing time

Also works well when played without scoring

Offers room for puns and play on words

Compares to:

First game of its kind, basically deduction with questions

Other editions:

Hobby World, Gigamic, dV Giochi, Brain Games, Cryptozoic, Rebel.pl, REXhry, Competo and others

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 3

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 3

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0