Robot or Not

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Clue giving — everybody's trying to give them a clue that guesses gets them to guess five.
• Hidden role — everybody is playing as uh humans except for a robot.
• Social Deduction — the bot is trying to, you know, give a clue that maybe sways them off of that number bit. But you don't want to be too obvious because then you're going to get caught.

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• This is a deck-building game.
• one of the interesting aspects of this is there's 13 ways to win the game.
• Essentially, 13 dark pacts in the game and each of those dark pacts is a unique win condition that feels, you know, it feels like crazy to get.
• You can also play two times and three times multipliers on those cards to double every aspect of the card.
• that just feels like a very satisfying aspect of the game.
• the main mechanism of the game is I split, you choose and that's always one of my favorite mechanisms because it's it's not a difficult game to teach, but it's a difficult game to make decisions.
• So, what do you sacrifice and what do you keep is also an interesting aspect of that one.
• This is a great family game if you want to.
• And so, there's a lot of lying and promising of other people where you're like, "Do you want to go there with me? Nobody else go there.
• I swear to god, don't go there."
• And so, there's a lot of sort of lying and intrigue and where you're going and promises that you're making and stuff like that.
• please, you know, check out my new series. It's all funny and games when it drops in May.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Clue giving — Each round there will be a single guesser and a bunch of clue givers all attempting to convey a specific number from 1 to 10 based on a prompt that they've been given.
• Deduction — Each round there will be a single guesser and a bunch of clue givers all attempting to convey a specific number from 1 to 10 based on a prompt that they've been given.
• Hidden Roles — One of your teammates is actually secretly a robot themselves trying to sabotage your efforts.
• Social Deduction — Bot or Not, a social deduction party game for up to 10 players where the robots are taking over.

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