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I'M THE BishoP - Bluff or fact?

With abilities of hidden characters you are meant to acquire 13 gold and win. If somebody goes bankrupt, the richest player wins instantly.

You start the game with six gold coins, all player's coins are always visible. The remaining coins and the Court marker are laid out; characters according to the number of players are distributed and laid out face-up; when all players have seen all cards, the cards are turned over. Character markers are laid out as a remainder of characters in play.

The first four players swap two cards each - their own and one from the table or from another player - or maybe they don't. Then you have three choices per turn: You swap your own card with another player's beneath the table, or maybe not, or you look at your card or you declare a character. If you make a declaration, all other players can protest in turn. If nobody protests, you use the ability of the named character. When one or several players declare that they are the person you named all players involved reveal their cards. Should someone really be the declared character he implements the character's ability. All players who declared or protested wrongly, pay one coin to Court. You can also play your own mix of characters, only the Judge must always be in play, and for some characters there are different victory condition.

Observation and some calculated risks in bluffing are necessary, to much effort for memorizing can be stressful; better to risk a coin and see some cards, hopefully. The fun in this game is indescribable, you need to experience it yourself, and hopefully still know which card in your hand beneath the table is your own!

Players: 2-13

Age: 10+

Time: 30+

Designer: Bruno Faidutti

Artist: Jérémy Masson

Price: ca. 14 Euro

Publisher: Repos Productions 2013

Web: www.rprod.com

Genre: Bluff, deduction

Users: With friends

Special: Many players

Version: de

Rules: de en fr it jp pl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Fantastic illustrations

Well-balanced characters

Works will with all numbers of players

Compares to:

Citadel, The Resistance and other character deduction games

Other editions:

Asterion Press, Rebel.pl, Hobby Japan

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 3

Communication (red): 3

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0