The Incident
The Hostile flips and reads an Incident aloud. Everyone must answer for it.
COMING SOON
Setups, sabotage and saving yourself.
Everyone is guilty. Nobody tells the truth. The Hostile is always right.
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3–10
Players
30–90
Minutes
14+
Age
15
Points to win
HOW IT WORKS
Set them up. Talk your way out. Ruin someone else’s defence.
Each round starts with an Incident. Everyone else plays an Alibi and has to justify it out loud. Other players can throw in Sabotage cards to derail, reframe or completely wreck the explanation.
The Alibi
Every player except the Hostile plays an Alibi face down.
The Explanation
Alibis are revealed. Players justify their defence out loud.
The Sabotage
Players may disrupt, reframe or derail someone’s justification.
The Consequences
The Hostile decides who is Cleared, Sabotaged, Entertaining or Busted.
Next Round
The Hostile passes left. Players draw back up and the chaos continues.
Incident
You referred to your partner as a 'phase'. They overheard everything.
Alibi
That was taken completely out of context.
Sabotage
Nobody believes you. Try harder.
THE HOSTILE
Rotates each round. Absolute power. No accountability.
The Hostile reads the Incident, decides whether each Sabotage landed, picks the most convincing Alibi and delivers the consequences. No appeals. No discussion.
SCORING
The Consequences
Most convincing Alibi. Not necessarily truthful — just plausible.
Awarded when a Sabotage visibly changes or disrupts a justification.
One award per round for the funniest or most spectacularly terrible justification.
Everyone else. Tragic. Predictable. Probably deserved.
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