2020 · Bluffing

Inhuman Conditions

Players engage in a short, two-player interrogation game set in a bureaucratic, near-future world. One player takes the role of Investigator with two stamps and a conversation topic; the other is the Suspect, who may be Human or Robot. The Investigator asks questions and decides whether each answer seems innocuous or suspicious, stamping accordingly. Robots must respond under a scripted conversational constraint that can reveal them, while Humans speak freely but risk slipping into suspicious phrasing. Games last about five minutes and hinge on timing, misdirection, and reading the other player’s answers.

groupPlayers

2

schedulePlaying time

5 min

cakeAge

12+

psychologyComplexity

2 / 5