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Deception: Murder in Hong Kong

A social deduction game where one player is the forensic scientist giving clues about a murder, while investigators try to identify the murderer among them using only abstract hint tiles.

Popularity
#95
2 players
20-30 min
Easy

What You'll Need

🃏 Role cards
🃏 Evidence cards
🃏 Weapon cards
📦 Hint tiles
📦 Bullet markers

About This Game

A social deduction game where one player is the forensic scientist giving clues about a murder, while investigators try to identify the murderer among them using only abstract hint tiles.

How to Play

  1. One forensic scientist, one murderer, rest investigators
  2. Murderer secretly chooses weapon and evidence from their cards
  3. Forensic scientist sees solution but cannot speak directly
  4. FS places tokens on hint tiles (cause of death, location, etc.)
  5. Investigators discuss and theorize based on hints
  6. Each investigator gets one accusation attempt
  7. Correctly identify murderer + weapon + evidence to win
  8. Murderer wins if no one guesses correctly
  9. Game plays over three rounds of hints
  10. Best with hidden role tension and deception
Added about 1 month ago • Updated 28 days ago
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