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Bluffing

Bluffing in Board Games

Definition

Bluffing is a strategic deception mechanic where players mislead others about their true intentions, strength, or situation in-game to gain an advantage.

Role in Games

Bluffing adds a layer of psychological competition as players attempt to read tells or predict opponents' tactics.

Gameplay Impact

Player Interaction: Encourages direct confrontation and social manipulation.
Uncertainty: Creates suspense by masking true game states.
Skill Balance: Allows weaker strategic players to outplay stronger ones through deception.

Strategy

Players must balance the risk of being caught with the potential reward of successful deception.

Examples

Poker uses bluffing to convince opponents of a strong hand.
Coup has players bluff about their influence to eliminate others.

Conclusion

Bluffing enriches board games by promoting dynamic interactions and psychological complexity.

Bluffing games published by 999 Games

Print & Play Game with Bluffing

Pacific Ocean is a quick game where you aim to attract aquatic animals to your sanctuary. You'll select animal cards that can add new icons to your sanctuary or introduce new scoring conditions.The gameplay combines strategic decision-making with bluffing...

Pacific Ocean (Kickstarter Edition)

In Mint Julep, players draft cards, place bets and then manipulate the race in order to ensure the horse that they want to win ends up finishing the race in a top spot. Be careful where you place your bet because the odds might be against you!Each game...

Bluffing and Role Playing games

Tofu Kingdom is a social card game of deduction and deception. In the game, players take turns assuming the role of Prince Mochi, who is looking for his forbidden true love, Princess Tofu. He is allowed to ask one question to each player around the ...

A strategic, secret role, semi-cooperative, social tabletop card game with dice and a miniature. Will you be next to become Infected?Game can be played with 5-6 players or 7-12 players if 2 copies of the game are owned.

Paranormal Romance is an expansion for Fog of Love that tells a powerful, cinematic love story that will leave a lasting impression — and the best way to experience any great movie is to not know how it will end, so we won't give any spoilers away. ...

Bluffing and Memory games

Bluffing games published by Bezier Games

In Ultimate Werewolf: Extreme, 5-25 players will use their wits to deceive and uncover deception by fellow players as they attempt to discover who among them is a werewolf. Like traditional werewolf games, Ultimate Werewolf: Extreme has all sorts of ...

Ultimate Werewolf: Extreme

In Ultimate Werewolf Legacy, players and the village itself have attributes that are retained between games. Events from the first session ripple through every other time you play. Make a bad decision early on, and it can haunt your village for years...

Ultimate Werewolf Legacy

Bluffing games illustrated by Pandaluna

Final Touch

Before you is a painting to be made. To win the order, you'll have to be the one to add the final touch...If you don't have the right color, you can always ruin the painting! Mechanisms:• Bluffing• Hand Management 25 Masterpiece Cards 60 Touch of Color...

Hand Management

Bluffing games illustrated by Harald Lieske

Bluffing and Betting games

In this stealthy bluffing card game, players protect their hens near the hen house whil using htier fox to gobble up opponents' hens. Are you sly enough to outfox your opponents? Mechanisms:• Betting and Bluffing• Highest-Lowest Scoring• Kill Steal• ...

Check out this take on liar’s dice with palm fitted cups and dice with critter characters. Play the classic bluffing and bidding game as is, or take on wild rules variations that make the game more exciting and keep you on your toes. In either case,...

Guns or Treasure is a speedy game of buccaneering and bluffing!1. Secretly build your ships by adding guns, treasure, or bombs.2.Attack rival ships to steal treasure. But beware! They may have more guns - or even a bomb!3. Whoever captures the most treasure...

Bluffing games published by DV Giochi Games

Bang! Gold Rush is an expansion for the card game Bang! that can be used with the base game alone or mixed with other expansions. In addition to featuring eight new characters, Bang! Gold Rush adds two new mechanisms to game play:Players can collect...

In an Old Saloon, you can find all kinds of people: loudmouths bandits, coward wastrels, Indian chiefs, and even an intrusive ghost! Are you ready to face lethal new characters and canny gunslingers with an ace up their sleeve?Mechanisms:• Bluffing• ...

The enlightened monarch Vladimiro Miritiro, tired of reigning, has decided to choose his successor. Paladins, cooks, painters and all the other subjects in the kingdom bustle about for the throne. Help the King in this decision by advising their favorites...

Two-player Game with Bluffing

For months you've been planning and gathering forces for the largest invasion of the war. Your opponent knows that you are preparing a major strike, but do they know where? Suddenly you receive reports that as py has gained information about your operation...

Hide your Princess behind the screens and, with the help of her maid, avoid the magic mirror holders. Then find the legendary animals that will lead her to her beloved! Mechanisms:• Bluffing• Grid Movement 1 Game Board 25 Screens 6 Secret Objective Cards...

The Japanese tea ceremony is a tradition centered on spirituality and servitude. Preparing and presenting a beautiful matcha (tea) for your guest is the ultimate expression of culture, ceremony and respect.In Matcha, players attempt to collect the utensils...

Experience the dense Cold War suspense and scratch that Twilight Struggle itch in only 45 minutes.13 Days: The Cuban Missile Crisis is a nail-biting, theme saturated two-player strategy game about the Cuban Missile Crisis. Your fate is determined by...

Bluffing games published by Devir

Regine is a game of deceit, of bluffing, and of backstabbing. Achieve the winning combination of cards and climb over your rivals on the social ladder! 44 Cards 32 Markers Mechanisms:• Betting and Bluffing• Hand Management• Push Your Luck

The 2018 Edition of Incan Gold features New Cover Art and Custom Player Meeples!Incan Gold is an award-winning game in which players push their luck as they head into a ruined temple, attempting to find the most jewels. Each turn, a card is turned over...

"Quest" is a social deduction and hidden role card game that plunges players into a medieval fantasy, complete with knights and nefarious agents. It's a fast-paced, team-based game where players must discern who among them serves the cause of Good and...

Solo / Solitaire Game with Bluffing

Fantasy themed games with Bluffing

Veiled Fate - Metal Edition

World Championship Russian Roulette

Bluffing games published by Lucky Duck Games

Pagan: The Fate of Roanoke is an expandable and asymmetrical card game with one player taking on the role of the Witch and the other the Witch Hunter. The Witch attempts to carry out a ritual before being exposed and eliminated by the Witch Hunter.As...

Zombie Tsunami is a party game for 3 to 6 players that plays in under 30 minutes.In the game, each player competes to grow the largest horde of zombies. They will have to collaborate and sometimes betray one another in order to win the game.• Bluffing...

In The Court of Miracles, players will lead a guild of beggars, scheme with sinister plots, and use trickery to build their renown all in an attempt to take over 16th century Paris. The first player to place all of their Renown tokens is the winner....

Bluffing games published by Smirk & Dagger

Stay Alive, Gain a Fortune...Dead Last is a social collusion game of shifting alliances, betrayals, and murder for profit, where 6-12 players conspire and vote upon whom to kill each round, all in an effort to be the last player standing and collect ...

Dread Curse is a push-your-luck Pirate game of cunning thievery and ample turns of fortune. Play revolves around drawing loot from a cloth bag and stealing from the other pirates in order to gain the most valuable stash of treasure. Each turn, players...

Bluffing games published by Delta Vision Publishing

Bluffing and Player Judge games

Each round one player takes on the role of Storyteller, choosing one card from his hand, then telling a story, singing a ditty or otherwise doing something that in his opinion is associated with the played card. Each other player then chooses one card...

Dixit: Daydreams is an expansion for Dixit that contains 84 new cards for use with that game. In Dixit, each round one player takes on the role of Storyteller, choosing one card from his hand, then telling a story, singing a ditty, or otherwise doing...

THE ULTIMATE BLUFFING GAME: A fast-thinking, push-you-luck, bluffing game that’s a mix between Balderdash and The Chameleon. NO ANSWERS? NO PROBLEM: You don’t need to know lots of trivia — all you need to do is make something up!SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE...

Animals themed games with Bluffing

Kelp is a two-player asymmetrical game that offers players a unique opportunity to delve into the natural world of Pyjama Sharks and Common Octopuses, set in a South African kelp forest. Hide and seek meets bluffing and manipulation. Deck builder meets...

Kelp: Shark vs Octopus

Hornet is a stinging tactical board game for the entire family in which players need to anticipate the moves of their opponents and at times also bluff a bit. Each player controls a pair of hornets swiftly flying about in flower fields collecting nectar...

Bluffing games published by Matagot

Long John Silver is your prisoner; it's time to find his treasure. Follow the hints he gives you, then draw your moves and your search areas directly on the board. But beware, the old pirate is devious and will not hesitate to mislead you! Will you find...

Treasure Island

In Ahoy! Kitten, you are one of the Cat Pirates of the Open Sea! As a Cat, shiny little coins do not interest you. What you want is Fish!You want to collect more fish than your opponents through bluffing and cunning. However, it is not that easy because...

Bluffing games illustrated by Matt Healey

Gempire is the strategic hidden-action, city-building board game with different victory conditions virtually every time you play! King Zarmund is holding a grand competition to decide his new capital city! He'll make 3 random demands at the beginning...

Gempire - Zarmund's Demands

Cult of the Deep is a hidden-role dice game for 4-8 players where you are a cultist trying to establish your faction's rise to power. Battle for control of rituals and mythical monsters as you seek victory and control of the Cult.A social deduction game...

Cult of the Deep (Clearance)

Bluffing games published by Asterion Press

Oh Captain! is an exciting game of deception from Ludonaute that sees 3 to 6 players vying to become the richest explorer in a mysterious foreign land. Discover valuable treasure and convince your captain it's worthless to keep the spoils for yourself...

Everything's fair in the pursuit of profit…New Angeles is a board game of corporate greed and machinations for four to six players set in the Android universe. You and your friends each gain control of one of the worlds' most powerful megacorporations...

The Dixit Quest expansion, previously known as Dixit 2, allows players to add even more cards to their favorite Dixit base game. Add 84 cards to add to your surprising, exciting, and evocative Dixit game that will be enjoyed with friends and family ...

Bluffing and Hand Management games

Once hungry Kitty craved to eat,but sadly found no yummy meat,instead just found some weird spice,scoffed it down and paid the price.From prickling hot sensation camethe grand idea for this sweet game.Sweet & Spicy is a bluffing card game for 2-6 players...

Curses & Covens is an all verses one card game where three or more friendly towns face off against the witch hunter. One player plays as the witch hunter and wins by capturing witches.The player playing the witch hunter will be trying to keep track of...

Curses & Covens

Bluffing games published by CMON Global Limited

Your new favorite addition to your family games collection is here with the Disney Robin Hood Sheriff of Nottingham Game! From CMON and Spin Master Games, this bluffing strategy board game is for everyone ages 10 and up. You will need 3-5 players and...

Sheriff of Nottingham: Merry Men is a collection of expansions for the hit game Sheriff of Nottingham! The expansion is modular in nature, allowing players to add some, or all of the extra content to their games of Sheriff of Nottingham. Modules include...

The Monster Pack expansion adds an impressive roaster of 4 new Monsters to the Rising Sun core game. These fantastical creatures can be introduced to the game in addition to the standard ones, adding all-new, unique abilities that allow players to summon...

Bluffing games published by Brain Games

Walk a mile in the shoes of a spy! Or was it a kilometer in clogs?SPYFALL is an easy-to-learn card game of bluffing, probing questions, clever answers, and suspicion. At the start of each round, players receive a secret card informing them of the group...

Strut your tail feathers in this clever game of gambling and reading the room. Pikoko is a trick-taking card game for serious and casual gamers, featuring a 3-dimensional peacock which holds your cards so that you are the only player who CANNOT see ...

Once upon a time, three big cats became exhausted fighting to be top cat. They agreed to quit the fight and spice up their nine lives with a hot spice eating contest. Alas, everyone was soon cheating, so the cats invented a very hot, often tearful, bluffing...

Bluffing games published by Repos Production

Stupefy!

Witches and Wizards, ready your wands!Open the box of Stupefy!... and discover an immersive game in the atmosphere of the Wizarding World.In this bluffing game created by Ludovic Maublanc, players grab their wands, play cards, cast spells, target their...

Trivia themed games with Bluffing

Guess the number - but don't go too high!Lighten up the mood at any game night, dinner party or couples therapy session. Play it during business meetings, date night at your uncle's funeral - or all three at once!One player reads a question (all answers...

It’s Vegas, Baby!Bring the excitement of Vegas into your home with the newest edition of the best-selling party game in history!In Wits & Wagers Vegas, you don't need to know the answers to win. Anyone can win by betting on other players' guesses to...

Wits & Wagers - It's Vegas, Baby!

Movies / TV / Radio theme themed games with Bluffing

Bluffing games illustrated by Donald Crank

Doomtown: Weird West Edition

Welcome to Doomtown, where you try to gain control of a western town set in the Weird West of Deadlands. In this world, cowpokes good and bad wield guns, steampunk gadgets, and spells of all sorts, and death is sometimes just a minor inconvenience.In...

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Alternate History

Area Majority / Influence

Hand Management

Bluffing games published by Dr. Finn's Games

Biblios Dice

God does not play dice, but his monks do! In this dice version of Biblios, players continue their quest to build the most prestigious scriptorium. The game is for 2-players and combines an interesting dice drafting mechanic with auctions and fluctuating...

Constrained Bidding

Bluffing games illustrated by Lina Cossette

Guardian's Call

Beware, Guardians, the dark dragon Golianth stirs! Gather weapons, artifacts, and spells to defend your people. Offer aid, detect deception, and above all choose wisely. Lead your people to victory and the Council will surely name you Guardian of the...

Hand Management

Bluffing games published by Tactic

Say Anything (10th Anniversary)

Say Anything is about you. You get to decide how witty, weird, or wild you want to be. Each round, players answer a question like "What would make next weekend more exciting?" or "When's the worst time to burst out laughing?" After the answers are revealed...

Paper-and-Pencil