# Sound of a Thousand Screams

Sound of a Thousand Screams is a board game.

- **Complexity:** 4 out of 5
- **Year published:** 2010
- **Categories:** Scenario / Adventure / Module
- **Mechanics:** Attribute/Stat Based (STR, CON, PER, etc), Level Based (Earn XP and level up), Class Based (Pilot, Wizard, Scientist, etc), Random Attribute Generation (during Character Creation), Race Based (Player Race/Species affects gameplay), Dice (Various)
- **Owned by:** 1 Ludoya players

**Designers:** F. Wesley Schneider, Patrick Renie, James L. Sutter, Richard Pett, Jay Thompson, Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan

**Artists:** Damien Mammoliti, Vincent Dutrait, Sara Otterstätter, Robert Lazzaretti, Jon Hodgson, Tyler Walpole, Andrew Hou, Peter Lazarski, Florian Stitz, Francisco Rico Torres, Eric Belisle

## Rules questions

### Can I say words or sing a song while making my sound?

No. You can’t speak real words, hum or sing recognizable songs or jingles, or touch the Guesser or Recorder; you may move around and use nearby items. (p. 4)

### What happens if I guess a card that nobody was assigned?

The Guessing step ends immediately, and you don’t reveal any more tokens. The wrongly guessed card and all cards not yet guessed stay on the board. (p. 5)

### Do we lose progress for sounds the Guesser misses?

You move the Heart marker down by the number of broken-heart symbols on all tokens that weren’t guessed correctly, but advance the Progress marker by the number of correctly guessed cards. (p. 6)

### When do we add new numbers and card spaces to the game?

After advancing the Progress marker, add any Number token whose Soundtrack space it reaches or passes to the Audio Bag; that unlocks a matching card space for the next round. (p. 6)

### In a 6- or 7-player game, what does the Recorder do?

The Recorder memorizes the sounds during Soundmaking, then tries to reproduce them during Guessing while keeping the Recorder glasses on and not talking. (pp. 3–5)

## Links

- [This page](https://www.ludoya.com/games/sound-of-a-thousand-screams)
- [Sound of a Thousand Screams in the Ludoya app](https://app.ludoya.com/g/sound-of-a-thousand-screams)
- [BoardGameGeek entry](https://rpggeek.com/rpgitem/62440)

_Data from Ludoya, updated 2026-11-09. Ratings, ownership and play counts are Ludoya's own._