Ultimate Werewolf

Ultimate Werewolf
Designer(s) Ted Alspach
Publisher(s) Bézier Games, Inc.
Players 3 to 75
Age range All ages[1]
Skill(s) required Bluffing, Partnership, Social skills, Roleplay, Negotiation, Deduction[2]

Ultimate Werewolf is a party board game designed by Ted Alspach and published by Bézier Games.[1] It is based on the social game, Werewolf, which is Andrew Plotkin's reinvention of Dimitry Davidoff's 1987 party game, Mafia.[3][4] The Werewolf game appeared in many forms before Bézier Games published Ultimate Werewolf in 2008.[1][2]

Gameplay

Ultimate Werewolf can be played with 5 to 75 players of all ages. Each player has an agenda: as a villager, hunt down the werewolves; as a werewolf, convince the other villagers that you are innocent, while secretly attacking those same villagers each night. Dozens of special roles are available to help both the villagers and the werewolves achieve their goals.[1][2] The game has more than forty unique roles, eighteen different scenarios, a set of 78 fully illustrated cards, a moderator score pad to keep track of games, and a comprehensive game guide.[1]

Roles

The many roles of Ultimate Werewolf include:[5][6]

  • Apprentice Seer: Become the Seer if the Seer is killed.
  • Aura Seer: At night, look for players with special powers that are not plain villagers or werewolves.
  • Beholder: Opens his eyes the first night to see who the seer is.
  • Bodyguard: Choose a different player each night to protect. That player cannot be killed that night.
  • Cupid: Choose two players to be lovers. If one of those players dies, the other dies from a broken heart.
  • Diseased: If you are attacked by werewolves, the werewolves do not get fed the following night.
  • Ghost: Die the first night, then each night write one letter as a message from the beyond.
  • Hunter: If killed, immediately fire a weapon at a target.
  • Idiot: Always vote for players to die.
  • Lycan: Appear falsely to be a werewolf to the Seer.
  • Magician: Kill or heal a player at night, once each per game.
  • Martyr: Take the place of anyone who has just been lynched.
  • Mason (3): You know who the other Masons are.
  • Mayor: Your vote counts twice when voting to lynch a player.
  • Old Hag: At night, indicate a player who must leave the village the next day.
  • Old Man: You will die on night X, where X is the number of werewolves in the game plus one.
  • P.I.: Once during the game, learn if one player out of three is a werewolf.
  • Pacifist: Always vote for players to live.
  • Priest: Once during the game, choose to protect a player. The next attempt to kill that player fails.
  • Prince: Survive a lynching and reveal your role.
  • Seer (two: one male and one female): Each night, point at a player and learn if they are a werewolf or not.
  • Spellcaster: At night, indicate a player who must not speak the following day.
  • Tough Guy: You survive an extra day if attacked by werewolves at night.
  • Troublemaker: Once per game, choose to have two lynchings on one day.
  • Villager (20): Find the werewolves and lynch them.
  • Witch: Kill or heal a player at night, once each per game.
  • Sorcerer: Look for the Seer each night.
  • Minion: Work with the werewolves to kill the villagers.
  • Werewolf (12): Eat a villager each night.
  • Wolf Cub: If you die, the werewolves get two kills the following night.
  • Cursed: You are a villager until attacked by werewolves, at which time you become a werewolf.
  • Doppelganger: Select a player the first night. If that player dies, you secretly take that role.
  • Drunk: You are a villager until the third night, when you remember your real role.
  • Cult Leader: Each night, add a player to your cult. You win if all of the players left alive are part of your cult.
  • Hoodlum: Indicate two players on the first night. If they die and you are alive at the end of the game, you win.
  • Tanner: You only win if you are killed.
  • Lone Wolf: You are a werewolf, but you only win if you are the last player alive.
  • Vampire (6): Kill a villager each night (they die in the middle of the next day).
  • Moderator: Moderates the game.

Expansion packs

Awards

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 "Utlimate Werewolf: Ultimate Edition". Bezier Games. Retrieved 2 November 2012.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Ultimate Werewolf: Ultimate Edition". BoardGameGeek. Retrieved 2 November 2012.
  3. ↑ Robertson, Margaret (4 February 2010). "Werewolf: How a parlour game became a tech phenomenon". Wired. Retrieved 2 November 2012.
  4. ↑ Plotkin, Andrew. "Werewolf: A Mind Game". Retrieved 2 November 2012.
  5. ↑ Ultimate Werewolf: Official Role Quick Reference Guide. Ted Alspach and Bezier Games. 2008.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Ultimate Werewolf Artifacts Review". The Opinionated Gamers. Retrieved 2 November 2012.

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