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                A table top game that I played recently was "Are you a werewolf?" The game is basically about villagers trying to figure out who the werewolf is. Out of the entire village, there are two werewolves, one seer, and the rest being villagers. After the first night, the werewolves would pick one villager to kill until all villagers are gone. In order to win, the villagers would have to figure out who the werewolves are by using their deduction abilities to see who is lying or who looks suspicious. In addition, the role of the seer is that they are allowed to check to see what a player's role is in the game, whether they are a werewolf or villager.

                In the play session, we are giving a card with a role on it, and this is the role we would play. Furthermore, we would have a commentator or supervisor that would check to make sure no one is cheating and tell the story to everyone as we play. To simulate each night, everyone would close their eyes and make noises such as clapping their hands so that they cannot see or hear anyone else. From here, the werewolves would wake up and pick who they want to kill then the seer would pick one person to see who they are. Once this is over, it's time to vote for who the villagers think is a werewolf.

                Essentially the core mechanism of this game is the player's ability to observe and deduce who is the werewolf. In this game, most of the time, the werewolf will lie and make up any excuse they can to throw people off from their trail and get the villagers to kill each other and not them. From my experience, the werewolf made an excuse of being drunk and could not be the werewolf. Also, any time there was someone who tried to use their reasoning in order to tell everyone else why the person they suspect was a werewolf, they would be picked off first to die. This game is intense in the sense that if you speak up, you were usually the first one to lose. Overall, the game was very fun to play.

This game can be found at this link. http://www.looneylabs.com/games/werewolf