How to Play: Mascarade
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- čas přidán 19. 05. 2021
- BGG 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." - Jak na to + styl
It’s also important to note that if a player reveals their card for whatever circumstance such as to resolve who gets to do the action of a character if players contest or having been revealed by the inquisitor, that player must swap their card at the moment of their turn. It’ll be great to see if you’ve done a demonstration of that particular segment. :)
Great vid tho! Keep it up.
Wow this is a high quality content that I would like to see as an explanation for a BG/CG
Really great efforts
Great video! Love this channel :-D
Rule is spoken wrong @ 04:58 - The judge takes all the coins from the COURTHOUSE not the BANK. The image also helps remember this on the card.
Another great video!
Great presentation! Masquerade is one of my favorite games. Glad to see it with fresh perspective (pun intended)
Thanks so much ! Glad you enjoyed!
Question. When players use the swap action, can they swap with card that is in the center?
Yes they can!
-The Curator
Just a constructive comment: on 3:51, you narrated the rule about revealing the players cards. This is an important rule, that I was hoping to see a demonstration on screen. This part is usually an aha moment when I teach the game.
Thanks so much for the feedback. I agree that would have been a great moment for another shot!
One question - can I announce any character that I got during the game or the character that I got at the very beggining is 'mine' and I have to play with it only?
you can announce any character at all - one you had or swapped or never had.
Sir this is also my question here. The "Cheat" character. What if I have less than 10 coins at the beginning of the game and announce that I am the cheat and nobody or someone challenges me, and if I'm correct but my coins or others had also less coins. Will I pay to the courthouse?