Mascarade

What is Mascarade

Who are you in Mascarade? Whoever you want to be... at least until someone else calls you out on it!

Each character receives a face-down role card at the start of the game, and in a game with 4–5 players, some role cards are placed in the center of the table. On a turn, you take one of three actions:

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.

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.

Game details

Players

2–13

Age

+10

Duration

30 min

Difficulty

Light

Type

Board game

Year

2013

Mechanics

Hidden Roles · Memory · Variable Player Powers

Categories

Bluffing · Card Game · Medieval

Designer

Bruno Faidutti

Publisher

Asmodee · Repos Production · ADC Blackfire Entertainment · Asterion Press