Board 8 > Come play "Ghost" with us, a word puzzle / lateral thinking game!

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Ghost is a word puzzle game where each player is told the “secret word” and must come up with a cryptic hint for it. A small number of players are secretly chosen as “ghosts”. They don’t know what the word is, and have to guess it based on these hints. It’s a game that highly rewards creativity, as well as critical thinking skills. Read the full rules below!




You can play by joining us at www.twitch.tv/delseban tonight at 9:00PM EST!

Here's how the game works:

I will think of a secret word. Some players know the secret word, while others have to guess it. Each player is given one of those roles:

Ghost: Does not know the secret word. Knows who the other ghosts are. Wins by guessing the secret word.

Villager: Knows the secret word, must not allow the ghosts to figure it out. Does not know who is a villager and who is a ghost.

The secret word could be anything. For example: Oreo, China, Antelope, Hotdog, Link, Cloud, Samus, Rabbit, Cow, etc. Each round will have a different category, such as “animals”, “food”, “video games”, “adjectives”, etc. The ghosts will know the category and the number of letters in the word, but nothing else.

The game begins with the “Hint Phase”. I will send everyone their role, one by one. When I send you a “Go!”, you can post a hint for the word in the twitch chat. The hint should prove that you know the word, but shouldn’t be so clear that it gives the answer away. The ghosts don’t know the word; they will post a fake hint! Once everyone has given a hint, we move on to the main part of the game: the voting phase.

Once the game begins, everyone has a vote. Your goal, if you are a villager, is to vote out the ghosts! Look for the hints that don’t make sense to you! You vote in the chat by saying “##Name” with the name of the person you think is a ghost. If you are a ghost, you have to pretend to be a villager during this phase of the game. Once the majority has voted someone out, I will reveal if they were town or ghost, and the voting phase will repeat.

The town will lose if the number of ghosts alive is ever equal to the number of villagers. The town wins if they lynch all the ghosts. But watch out, there are penalties for accidentally voting out the villagers! Get it wrong too many times, and the ghosts will learn letters from the word. The ghosts can win by guessing the secret word. Each ghost has one guess to the word which they can use at any time, up until 5 minutes after they die.

There are 2 other roles in the game. The first is the “fool” role. A fool is exactly like a villager, except the word they are given by the host is wrong! So, if the word was “apple”, the fool might be told it is “peach” instead. This can really throw a wrench in things, so be careful! Additionally, there can be various special roles with special powers, but these are used very rarely.

The core mechanic of this game is the hint phase. You need to make a hint that is clear enough to show the other villagers that you know the word, but vague enough so that the ghosts don’t get it. If you discuss too much, you give the ghosts more information to figure out the word. So you need to be efficient in figuring out which players are lying.

How do I communicate with the host or my ghost partners? It is helpful if you join us on Discord, so that I can send you your role that way! And so that you can talk with other ghosts via private channel. Join us here, directly from your browser. Use the #ghost channel. https://discord.gg/0UPyhjcxecPFKLCy

Oh wow we haven't played ghost in forever

I work until around 9:30 tonight but I might try to make it in later on
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Interesting, sounds like fun. I'll see about maybe joining.
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can't make it cause i'm going on a date :(
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If I'm free this evening, I'm in.
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I remember being hot garbage in this. I might try to make it
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Sounds like Spyfall. Which is a fantastic game.
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BlackMageJawa posted...

Sounds like Spyfall. Which is a fantastic game.

Yup very similar.

We picked this up by noticing it being played as a variant of mafia on some other forum, and we sort of made our own version of it and kept tweaking the rules until it was balanced.

I played Spyfall a few months later and was like "oh, I know this"

YES YES YES!! It's been so long. It's crazy thinking there are people here who joined after our last game.
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Does the setup allow spectators? I remember this game from before and it seemed pretty neat, but I'd be terrible at actually playing it
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this intrigues me, but i can't play tonight
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Yup, spectators are fine.

Join the discord chat when we start, I'm not sure if we'll chat via discord or via twitch chat

Some examples of the game we played.


Theme: Spoilers
Keyword: Aeris Dies


Theme: Health, I think?
Keyword: Cancer


Theme: Pokemon
Keyword: Kakuna
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bump for more players
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Come play!

Got 7 players right now but we'd always be cool with more
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More players!
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New game starting up
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Oooh, ghost.

In.


....In tomorrow.

raka the themes are in the pictures you posted lol

though Xuxon's hint for kakuna is hilarious

one does not simply Maro walk into mordor
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For reference, the theme was Pokemon, and the hint given by someone was "One does not simply..."

Mana was a ghost and thought the word was Marowak.

Because one does not simply Maro walk into Mordor.

The word was Quilava.

There's lava in Mordor.

So how did the rest of the rounds go?

Delseban posted...

raka the themes are in the pictures you posted lol

Oh yeah lol missed that
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We will play at 9:00PM EST tonight again!

Yay! Will join later-ish.
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If I am not on time, I should be around early enough this time.

Tonight's Categories:

Yo, people who care, it's go time.
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based on the lack of chat activity, it's looking like i'm gonna need discord for this to even be fun to watch. dang.
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Discord is super easy to log in to via your browser!

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Crescent-Moon posted...

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bump
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Good games, everyone.
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I was not ghost for once for an entire day.

I am usually ghost.

I'm really interested in playing next time
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I'm not sure when next time will be. Will update when I know.

##No Lynch
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shit this was fun way back.

If there are to be more games, I won't be participating until September.
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Aww, that's too bad.

I think I'll host tomorrow.

Hype
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Awesome
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Should play during the day sometime so I can join!
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Tonight at 9:00PM!

BlackMageJawa posted...

Sounds like Spyfall. Which is an okay game.

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Have not heard of spyfall.

I will likely be around tonight, but I will most likely miss a game or two.

Tagging for tonight so I don't forget.

I have work or i would play. It sounds awesome.
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