Game Info

Mascarade
2 - 13 players
average 30 minutes
Casual
Published in
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Medieval Bluffing Party Game
Variable Player Powers Memory

Players in Mascarade start with six coins and a randomly dealt character card. Characters stay face up just long enough for players to more or less memorize them, then are turned face down. Your goal is to be the first player to hold 13 coins, and while you start nearly halfway to that goal, you can go down just as surely as you can go up! On a turn you take one of three actions: 1) Announce your character: Claim the power of a certain character and take the associated action. You don't have to have that character card in front of you to take this action, but if someone else says that they're that character and reveals the card to prove it, that player takes the action instead while you lose one coin to the tribunal. 2) Swap cards or not: Take another player's character card along with yours, place them under the table, shuffle them around a bit, then give one card back to the other player while keeping one for yourself. You (presumably) know whether you changed characters and can have some idea of who you are now, but that other player might be in the dark. 3) Secretly look at your character: Look at your character card to make sure of who you are. Play continues until one player obtains 13 coins and wins! Mascarade includes more character cards than the number of players, so not all characters will be used in each game. The rules suggest that you use certain characters in your first games, but once you know the game, you can try many other distributions. The first edition of Mascarade contains 13 characters. The beggar (woman) has no special ability. Bruno Faidutti says on his blog: "...she has no ability so far. I always like to find blank cards in a game, for which I can imagine my own effects. Here, the card is not blank – it has a picture and a name, but you can devise its effect, and I'm sure there'll be some prize for the best idea."

Overall Statistics for Romir's Gaming Group

Total Games Played: 6
Average Players Per Game 8.5

Win/Loss Statistics for Romir's Gaming Group

Badges Name   NemePoints   Total Games   Avg. NemePoints   Wins / Losses % Won  
Romir 97  6 16.00 
2
4
33 %
Fernando 63  5 13.00 
1
4
20 %
Mônica 60  5 12.00 
1
4
20 %
Olavo 59  5 12.00 
1
4
20 %
Oscar 42  3 14.00 
1
2
33 %
Danielle 34  5 7.00 
0
5
0 %
Cláudia 21  3 7.00 
0
3
0 %
Laura 21  3 7.00 
0
3
0 %
Nagali 21  3 7.00 
0
3
0 %
Arthur 14  2 7.00 
0
2
0 %
Cynthia 14  2 7.00 
0
2
0 %
Daniel 14  2 7.00 
0
2
0 %
Luana 14  1 14.00 
0
1
0 %
Luiz Paulo 14  1 14.00 
0
1
0 %
Margareth 14  2 7.00 
0
2
0 %
Jaci 1 7.00 
0
1
0 %
Kazu 1 7.00 
0
1
0 %
Victor 1 2.00 
0
1
0 %

    Last 5 Played Games for Romir's Gaming Group

    Date Played Result
    9/15/2017
    1st Oscar (19 game points scored)
    28 
    2nd Luiz Paulo (10 game points scored)
    14 
    2nd Luana (10 game points scored)
    14 
    4th Romir (9 game points scored)
    4th Danielle (9 game points scored)
    6th Olavo (5 game points scored)
    7th Victor (2 game points scored)
    4/29/2016
    1st Olavo
    35 
    2nd Romir
    2nd Danielle
    2nd Oscar
    2nd Fernando
    2nd Mônica
    2nd Daniel
    2nd Margareth
    2nd Laura
    4/29/2016
    1st Fernando
    35 
    2nd Mônica
    2nd Daniel
    2nd Margareth
    2nd Laura
    2nd Romir
    2nd Danielle
    2nd Olavo
    2nd Oscar
    11/28/2015
    1st Mônica
    32 
    2nd Laura
    2nd Jaci
    2nd Kazu
    2nd Nagali
    2nd Cláudia
    2nd Romir
    2nd Fernando
    12/19/2014
    1st Romir
    35 
    2nd Danielle
    2nd Olavo
    2nd Fernando
    2nd Mônica
    2nd Nagali
    2nd Cláudia
    2nd Cynthia
    2nd Arthur