The Shocking Accusation!

Prepare yourself for a heart-pounding murder mystery game called J’accuse! It’s an exciting game designed for 3 to 6 players where the objective is to avoid being falsely accused of murder. There isn’t really a winner in this game, only the unfortunate loser who becomes the prime suspect.

The Game Setup

To begin, let’s organize the evidence into three separate piles: weapons, motive, and opportunity. Shuffle each deck and place them within reach of all players.

Now, it’s time to choose your character! Each player will pick a character and have their character sheet in front of them. Additionally, every player gets 4 suspicion cards, which will come in handy during the game.

Next, let’s shuffle the investigation cards. Each player receives 3 cards facedown. Any remaining cards go to the side, forming a discard pile.

Hey there! So, here’s the deal: When I cross my arms, I get this cool inspector card. Now, the person sitting on my left gets a motive card, the next person gets an opportunity card, and the person after that gets a weapon card. Pretty exciting, right?

Clues

Now, let’s talk about clues. Clues can come in two forms – suspected or hard. Suspected clues are just placed in front of you and can be passed around. If you can, try to keep your area clean and avoid collecting any clues. However, be careful because clues can become hard evidence at any point in the game and stick to you forever!

How to Play

Okay, it’s time for gameplay! So, I’ll start as the inspector by secretly choosing one of my inspection cards. I’ll place it face-down under my little stand thingy. Then, everyone else will simultaneously choose one of their suspicion cards and show it to everyone. We’re all in this together, folks!

So here’s how it goes:

We’ve got these cards called suspicion cards. They basically let us decide if we want to point fingers or accuse someone. If most of us choose the same action, then that’s what we’ll do. But if there’s a tie, we’ll go with accusing.

Now, the fun part! The inspector reveals their card. That card tells us which evidence we need to pay attention to.

If we voted to move evidence, we’ll shuffle all the evidence in that direction. But if we accused, we’re taking all evidence of that type and making it hard evidence. And guess what? We’ve gotta replace any hard evidence that we moved. Just grab some matching evidence and put it where it should be.

And here’s a little tip – after we use a suspicion card, we turn it face down. We can’t use it again until we’ve used up three out of the four. Then we can collect them all and start over.

Once all the above steps have been completed, I pass the investigator token to the left, and we begin the next round.

SPECIAL RULES

As a player, you have three types of evidence that you are safe from. If someone tries to present this type of evidence against you, it is instead moved to the bottom of that pile, and new matching evidence is added according to the initial setup.

We only refresh the investigation cards once all players have used all three of their cards. Once this happens, three more cards are dealt to each player.

If we run out of cards for a specific evidence type, we won’t add any more cards of that type to the game. We will only add cards from the other types.

END OF GAME

So here’s the deal – the game is over when someone has at least one of each type of hard evidence against them or when they rack up 5 pieces of hard evidence. It’s that simple. And let me tell you, it’s not a fun position to be in when you lose.

Now let me introduce myself. I’m Amber, and I’m all about games. I know my stuff when it comes to gaming, and I love it. But that’s not all there is to me. I’m also a huge fan of dogs, plants, and D&D. Just a little something about myself.

Now let me introduce myself. I’m Amber, and I’m all about games. I know my stuff when it comes to gaming, and I love it. But that’s not all there is to me. I’m also a huge fan of dogs, plants, and D&D. Just a little something about myself.