Secret Hitler

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Secret Hitler
Game data
author Max Temkin, Mike boxing manager, Tommy Maranges
graphic Mackenzie Schubert
publishing company Goat, Wolf, & Cabbage LLC ( self-published )
Publishing year 2016
Art Board game , card game , deduction
Teammates 5 to 10
Duration 30 - 90 minutes
Age -

Secret Hitler is a board , card and deduction game by the US game developers Thomas Maranges, Max Temkin, Mike Boxleiter and Mackenzie Schubert. The game was self-published by the authors in 2016 and is available under the Creative Commons license BY-NC-SA 4.0.

development

The developers Thomas Maranges, Max Temkin (known for the card game Cards Against Humanity ), Mike Boxleiter and Mackenzie Schubert got the inspiration for the game from other deduction games like Cluedo or Who am I? . They analyzed what they liked about it and what not and how it could be improved. The team later considered addressing the time before the Second World War , since according to the developers there was a lot of betrayal and opportunism during the events before Hitler's seizure of power in the Weimar Republic , which could be easily integrated into the game principle. In December 2015, the developers started crowdfunding on kickstarter.com . The minimum limit for the further development of the game you put 54,450 dollars . As of the end, donations totaling $ 1,479,046 had been received. The first copies of the game were sent to donors in August 2016. In the run-up to the actual publication, a print-and-play version was made available free of charge. The entire game was released in the fall of 2016.

Gameplay

At the start of the game, each player is randomly assigned the role of a liberal or a fascist , but one player receives a Secret Hitler card. The fascists try to sow distrust and bring their leader to power. The liberals must find the secret Hitler and stop his seizure of power. At the beginning of the game, all liberal players close their eyes and the fascists reveal each other by opening their eyes. The secret Hitler keeps his eyes closed but raises his thumb so that the fascists can see who their leader is. So the fascists know each other and know who Hitler is. Hitler and the Liberals do not know what role the other players have. In each round, the players choose a President and a Chancellor , who together must enact one of three randomly chosen laws. When the government passes a fascist law, players will have to find out if they were betrayed or had bad luck drawing the law card. In the game there are also certain possibilities for the government to give the fascists an advantage. They try to create chaos through these possibilities, whereas the opponents have to ensure that Germany does not start a war. The goal of the liberals is to either pass five liberal laws or find out who the secret Hitler is and kill him. The fascists' goal, however, is either to pass six fascist laws or to make Hitler chancellor after three fascist laws have been passed.

Reviews

The game received mostly positive reviews. Luke Siuty from Playboy wrote about the game: “Secret Hitler is far from a politically saturated, controversial game. The whole party will love it. ”( German : Secret Hitler is far from a politically crammed, controversial game. The whole group will love it. ). The shutupandsitdown.com podcast operators said the game was the best looking hidden role game the world has ever seen. David Rudin from killscreen.com wrote about Secret Hitler that it was "interesting, joyful, and mercifully not going for cheap laughs" (German: interesting, inspiring, and fortunately not for cheap laughs. ). The German YouTube channel PietSmiet started a Let's Play for the game on January 19, 2016 , in which they also had largely positive reactions. Secret Hitler inventor Tommy Maranges himself said in an interview with Philipp Nagels and Christin Martens from Business Insider Germany that playing the game is like reading an entertaining book about World War II.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Secret Hitler on boardgamegeek.com
  2. ↑ Can “Secret Hitler” seduce you?
  3. ^ Secret Hitler - About this project. Kickstarter.com , accessed August 2, 2017 .
  4. ^ Secret Hitler by Max Temkin Update # 2: Print-and-play edition. Kickstarter.com, November 21, 2015, accessed August 2, 2017 .
  5. ^ Secret Hitler Rules
  6. ↑ theawesomer.com - Secret Hitler
  7. ↑ Secret Hitler on boardgamegeek.com
  8. ↑ From a Creator of Cards Against Humanity, 'Secret Hitler' is as Great as it Sounds ( Memento of the original from March 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.playboy.com
  9. ↑ secrethitler.com
  10. ↑ SECRET HITLER IS MERCIFULLY NOT A JOKE
  11. ↑ WHO IS HITLER? Secret Hitler # 1
  12. ↑ 1.5 million dollars for the card game "Secret Hitler": Game inventor Tommy Maranges on success and morals