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How to play Secret Hitler with the DIY Multideck

Secret Hitler

In pre-WW2 Germany, Liberals and Fascists square off in an intrigue-filled parliament.

  • Compatibility: Exellent (4/5)
  • Required cards: 30
  • Required drawings: 15
  • Deck version: v1
  • Recommended game
  • Rating: 7.5/10
  • Players: 5-10
  • Time: 45 min
  • Complexity: 1.68/5
  • Mechanics:
    • Hidden Roles
    • Player Elimination
    • Team-Based Game
    • Traitor Game
    • Voting
  • Mapped by: Maurici Abad
Rules

Card selection and drawing

To play Secret Hitler, you need 30 cards (plus 20 optionally) and 15 drawings (in 12 cards).

Instructions

cards mapping

  1. Select 6 ranks from 1 suit and write "Good team" on the drawing area D on every card.

    Ideally the green suit.

    It's recommended to use generic terms like "Good team" and "Bad team" over game-specific terms like "Fascist" and "Liberal" because this way you can re-use the same cards for many games. In this case, with the game The resistance: Avalon.

  2. Select 4 ranks from 1 suit and, on the drawing area D, write "Bad team" on 3 cards, and "Hitler" on 1 card.

    Ideally the red suit.

  3. Select any 2 other cards and, on the drawing area D, write "1st." (represents the President) and "2nd." (represents the Chancellor) on each card.

    It's recommended to use generic terms like "1st." and "2nd." over game-specific terms like "President" and "Chancellor" because this way you can re-use the same cards for many games.

    Ideally pick ranks 1 and 2 from the yellow suit.

  4. Pick any 11 other cards with a tails coin flip ❌ to use as "Fascist Policy tiles".
    1. [Optional] Pick 10 more to use as "Ballot cards".
  5. Pick any 6 other cards with a tails coin flip ✅ to use as "Liberal Policy tiles".
    1. [Optional] Pick 10 more to use as "Ballot cards".

      If you want better playability, at the cost of more drawings, write, in the drawing area D, "Yes" in 6 cards and "No" in 11 cards.

  6. In a notes card, draw the game board, and the fascists per total players. Check the image below.

    If you have a paper and pen available, draw the board on it. It will improve playability.

  7. Pick any 4 other cards and flip them so the back is visible. They are to count approved policies. Negative points for the fascist policies and positive points for the liberal policies.

    Feel free to use an alternative counting method invented by you.

Drawings

Game board

board drawing

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NothingInvestigate LoyaltyPolicy PeekCall Special ElectionExecution

Secret Role cards and Placards

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LiveralFascistHitlerPresidentChancellor

Usage

  • For Party Membership cards, just get an unused card that has a coin flip with tails ❌, if you're a fascist, or heads ✅, if you're a liveral.

    If you show the bottom of your Secret Role card, the other player may know if you're Hitler because she memorised the card in wich it's written. So, pic a new card every time.

  • Use 2 pairs of card backs to count approved policies. Make one pair count nevative points, and the other positive points. The negative points count approved fascist policies and the positive points count approved liveral policies.