2017 · Deduction

Arkham Ritual

A team of freelance journalists infiltrates a secret ritual in a cellar beneath Miskatonic University, where worshipers pass around mysterious artifacts that can drive them insane. Each player holds a card without looking at it and studies the cards visible in other players’ hands and in the discard pile to deduce what they hold. On a turn, a drawn card is passed to another player, who either discards their current card and takes the new one unseen or passes it onward. At the end of each round, players reveal their cards. Cursed cards and duplicated artifacts cost sanity, while only a unique sane artifact allows a player to avoid losing a sanity marker. Rounds continue until players run out of sanity.

groupPlayers

3–7 best 5

schedulePlaying time

20–30 min

cakeAge

8+

psychologyComplexity

1.3 / 5