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Rating: 7 Good
Popularity:13
Difficulty:Very easy
Year:2013
Players: 2-13 players
Playing time: 30 minutes
Age:10+

Official Site: Mascarade Game Page (English) - Repos Production


Created by: Bruno Faidutti, Jérémy Masson

Published by: Repos Production, Asmodee, Asterion Press

Alternate Names: Maskarada, 化裝舞會

Description:

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".

Prices:
Retail Price:$25
Amazon:$19
Ebay:$31
Expansions:
Mascarade Expansion
Mascarade: The Damned
Mascarade: Usurper
Awards:
As d'Or - Jeu de l'Année Nominee 2014
Golden Geek Best Party Board Game Nominee 2013


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Object of the Game

The object of the game is to use the powers of the characters to obtain 13 gold coins. However, if any player goes bankrupt, the game immediately ends and the richest player wins the game.

For your first few games, we suggest limiting your group to between 4 and 8 players, as any more or less require an in-depth knowledge of the rules. …



(for even more experienced player)

Setup

Bishop, Fool, Judge, Queen, King, Witch

With 2 players, the game also uses 6 characters. Each player obtains 3 characters in front of them, one corresponding to their left hand, and the other to their right hand. Finally, the third character is placed further back between the two other, and this card is called the protected card.

Each player begins the game with 6 gold coins, and a player's money belongs to all of their characters.

As with a regular game, the first four turns must be swaps - or not. Then, on their turn, a player can: …



(for experienced players)

Setup

Bishop, Fool, Judge, Queen, King, Witch

With 3 players, 6 character cards are used. Each player gets two characters in front of them, one corresponding to their left hand and the other to their right.

Each player begins the game with 6 gold coins, and the money belongs to both of the player's characters.

As in a regular game, the first four turns must be swaps - or not. Then, on their turn, a player can:

  • Swap under the table one of their two cards - or not - with an opponent's card or even their other card; or …



Components

  • 13 Character cards
  • 13 Character tokens
  • 1 Cemetery card
  • 1 rulebook
  • 5 game aids

Setup

You can combine the characters from the expansion and those from the base game as you wish while respecting the following rules:

The Judge must always be present.

Note: You can choose to play without the Judge if roughly two-thirds of the characters have the Coin Purse symbol . This, however, creates much longer games.

The Coin Purse icon indicates characters who bring money into the game. Roughly a third of the characters should bring money from the bank into the game. …



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