Insider Board Game - Party

Does free will exist? Are we controlled by what we see and hear, even when we think we decide for ourselves? Insider explores all these questions. Players discuss and must guess who is trying to manipulate their decisions.

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Do we really have free will? Who decides this? Are we controlled by what we hear and see while we think we are deciding freely? Insider is a game that deals with these questions. When communicating with others, you must find the right answers to a quiz or the "insider" who manipulates the conversation. Insider will do everything to hide its identity while misleading the others.

In detail: players are assigned roles at random. One player is the "master," who secretly chooses a word from a set given in the card deck. (In one variant described in the rules, they may freely choose and write down a word.) The "insider" player, whose role is not known to the other players, then secretly sees the word. The remaining players are called "ordinary." The ordinary players have approximately five minutes to ask the master questions that can be answered with "yes" or "no" in order to guess the secret word. The insider secretly tries to steer the ordinary players toward the correct word. If the ordinary players fail to guess the correct word, everyone loses.

However, if the word is guessed correctly within the allowed time, the master turns the hourglass, and the ordinary players and the master have until the sand runs out to discuss the game and determine the identity of the insider. If they guess correctly, they win the game together; if not, the insider wins.