After discussing and playtesting, a good story came to my mind. The spy story is never cool enough, what about alien invaders?
AlienQuest
So here we go defending human race with performing 😀
Background Story(Skip it if you like)
In 2077, A war was raised between planets. Aliens were brutal and sneaky. Human race defended themselves till the very last man and we won with an unacceptable cost. Alien invaders, as known as “LoWans”, refused to retreat from earth. What’s left of them sneaked and transformed their body into our kind. They were hard to recognize till “Magic Ink” was invented, which is only visible to mankind. Now, all of you are gathered for this experiment. One(or two) of you are alien(s). If you let alien get away, the earth step nearer towards destrcution. Each of you will get a secret message written by Magic Ink, and to perform it WITHOUT words or sentences. Then we’ll know who is the Alien.
(Advanced)Unfortunately, Alien can secretly transform one citizen into a monkey, making them hard to understand the secret message.
Numbers of players: 5 – 9 players
| 5-6 players | 7-9 players | (Advanced)6-8 players |
| 1 Alien | 2 Aliens | 1 Monkey |
Length of playtime: Normally 1-3 minutes each round
Designers: Zhuo ZHU, Yanci “Yanis” ZHANG, Bangguo “Samual” LI.
Goal:
- For citizens, you will act out the secret message you get, and find out which player is alien.
- For alien(s), you must hide yourself and guess out what other players trying to express, and to act like them.
- (Advanced)For monkey, you must guess out the secret message, act with limited information and help citizens to find out the alien.
Setup:
- One player has to be a host of this game.
- The host randomly chooses one(or two) player as alien and send them “You’re the alien”.
- The host thinks or chooses a secret message and send it individually to other players except alien&monkey.
- The secret message should normally be a noun or a name and well-known among players. (We strongly recommend you to use the words we provide in first 3 rounds)
- (Advanced)The host send monkey a word to decrible the secret message(Normally category of it).
Turns:
- Host should randomly decide the sequence of player’s performing.
- Host will start perform the message first, and In that order, each player should act out the secret message.
- During performing, it should not contain any meanful word or sentence. Only gestures and mimicked sound is allowed.
- Citizens and alien can comment on each other’s performance afterwards but should not interrupt it.
- Imitating other player is not allowed.
- After all performances, there is a vote. Except the host, each player should vote the alien they think simultaneously.
End of the game:
If any alien get the most vote(draw not included), he/she will get chance to guess the secret message. If the guessing is right, ALIEN WINS. Otherwise, CITIZENS WIN.
If anyone else except the alien get the most vote or it’s a draw, ALIEN WINS.
Credits:
Professor David King for many advices on rules.
Ziqi Wang, Zhijian Jiang and Chenge Yang are our lovely playtesters.
Secret message pool(Only Visible to the host):
Avengers(Superhero);Micheal Jackson(Celebrity);Elon Musk(Celebrity);
PUBG(Game);Tetris(Game);Popcorn(Food);Beer(Drink);007(Movie);Olympic Games(Activity);Donald Trump(Celebrity);
Coka Cola(Drink);Pokemon(Game);Pizza(Food);Witcher(Game);SuperMario(Game);The Legend of Zelda(Game)
Words in brackets are for the monkey.
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