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2022
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Description
Contraband Insider is a deduction board game for 3 to 5 players.
The police are stepping up enforcement efforts to confiscate illegal contraband goods within the city. Unfortunately, players take on the role of moles infiltrated into the police force. These corrupted cops are also known as “insiders” who manipulate various operations to prevent their partnered contraband goods from being confiscated by police raids.
Each round consists of a game setup and 3 gameplay phases:
1. In the Contraband Goods Phase, players are to hide 3 Contraband Cards faced-down among 8 Public Locations and 1 Home Base.
2. In the Police Raid Phase, players take turns to play 1 out of 3 actions.
3. In the Scoring Phase, all the cards in the unraided Public Location and Home Base will be opened and revealed. Players will earn the number of points for the round.
The game is played over 3 rounds, which each round will determine points that add up to the final score. At the end of the game, the player with the highest score wins the game.
—description from the publisher
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Board Games With B7 Analysis at 26:39 sentiment: positive
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Positive
Pros
- Filled with mind games and super entertaining
- Manipulative gameplay leads to fun and salty moments
- Easy to learn and teach
- Highly recommended
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Selling contraband before raids
- Corrupt police environment
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- bluffing — Contraband Insider is a deduction and bluffing game...
- Deduction — Contraband Insider is a deduction and bluffing game...
- Hidden Roles — There's deduction, a bit of bluffing, memory, and even hidden roles if you play with the double agent variant...
- Memory — There's deduction, a bit of bluffing, memory, and even hidden roles if you play with the double agent variant...
- Score and reset — Contraband Insider is a deduction and bluffing game featuring mechanics such as deduction, hidden roles, memory and score and reset game.
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- Contraband Insider, every decision feels like a gamble, and every player might be hiding exactly what you're trying to uncover.
- This trick taker feels wild in the best way, and I absolutely love the twists where the winner of each trick gets to purchase cards from it.
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- Shady Lady was one of my favorite games of 2025. It may be a light filler, but it's packed with tension, mind games, and a surprising amount of excitement for such a small package.
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Board Games With B7 Discussion at 7:10 sentiment: positive
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positive
Pros
- Filled with mind games
- Super entertaining
- Includes deduction, bluffing, memory, and hidden roles (with variant)
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Corrupted cops selling contraband before police raids
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- bluffing — Contraband Insider is a deduction and bluffing game featuring mechanics such as deduction, hidden roles, memory and score and reset game.
- Deduction — Contraband Insider is a deduction and bluffing game featuring mechanics such as deduction, hidden roles, memory and score and reset game.
- Hidden Roles — Contraband Insider is a deduction and bluffing game featuring mechanics such as deduction, hidden roles, memory and score and reset game.
- Memory — Contraband Insider is a deduction and bluffing game featuring mechanics such as deduction, hidden roles, memory and score and reset game.
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- Welcome to the sixth episode of Spotlighting Good and Gems and Board Games, a series dedicated to fun and lesserk known family games that deserve more attention.
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- Hits and Outs was one of my favorite games of 202
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- Drinks are around the house and so are the mind games.
- Every so often, a small card game flies under the radar, only to surprise you once it hits the table.
- Shady Lady is a fantastic filler that delivers far more tension and interaction than you might expect.
- I highly recommend it and I'd love to see it receive a wider international release so more players can discover just how clever and exciting it is.
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