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Tonight is night of the masquerade ball where the arrogant aristocrats and the commoners busy with their daily lives all wear masks to hide their identities. Some to fulfill their secret desires, some to fulfill their own mission... A dazzling night begins as various thoughts intertwine.
Masquerade Trick is a trick-taking game where you plays the roles of princesses, princes, assassins, and clowns, and perform trick-taking to accomplish the missions of their respective roles. Then, everyone points at the same time to the role card that they think is the person they are looking for.
user summary
Players play trick-taking as they complete missions for each character, such as princesses, princes, assassins, etc. After trick taking, players point to the character card designated for the mission. The player who completes two missions wins the game.
--description by publisher
- Fun and unique trick-taking game
- Cute rose meeples
- hidden roles in a trick-taking game
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Deduction — Players try to deduce the roles of other players.
- Hidden Roles — Each player receives a hidden character with specific win conditions.
- Trick-Taking — The core mechanic involves playing cards in tricks.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- Hey friends, it is Jenna. What is up?
- And welcome back to the board game garden.
- June ended up being a very board game-filled month.
- I still can't get over the fact that we're still playing trick- taking games that are completely different than all other trick- taking games, but I feel like overall the base game of trick taking works really well with being changed and manipulated in different ways.
- Oh my goodness, this thing broke me.
- Remember, you are somebody's reason to smile.