Human Punishment: Social Deduction 2.0

A four- to 16-player party game of secret teams, bluffing, deduction, and deception. At the beginning of each game, you're dealt a character card and two secret ID cards that combine to place you on one of three teams. There's the Humans, who are trying to kill all nonhumans. The selfish Outlaws, each of whom are trying to be the last alive. And the Machines, who are trying to kill all humans, but aren't concerned with the Outlaws.The game moves clockwise, with each turn an option to: investigate one of someone's two ID cards, draw a special action "program" card, or pick up one of several guns on the table and aim it. If you start your turn with a gun in hand, you have to either fire it off, switch your target, or drop it. As folks discuss who they are, and fire weapons—which usually allow you to flip cards in lieu of dying or taking damage—a clearer picture of the battlefield starts to coalesce.