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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.

Jeux publiés par FoxMind et utilisants Bluffing

The Potion

In a match of wit and bluff, alchemists compete to get rid of their ingredients and take control of the miraculous potion. Closely watching each other's move, who will prevail in this unique and original game of psychological deception? 3 Ingredients...

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Prisoner's Dilemma

Strategy Game utilisants Bluffing

Pacific Ocean (Kickstarter Edition)

Schrodinger's Cats

Ultimate Werewolf: Extreme

R-Eco+ (Japanese Edition)

ARGH - Animals Revolt Against Humans

Great Designers Series, The: Fog of War, The

Win: Micro Card Game

Wood or Wood Not?

Pagan: Fate of Roanoke

Gempire - Zarmund's Demands

Letters from Whitechapel (Revised Edition) (2nd Printing)

Mechs vs. Minions: Tellstones - King's Gambit

Space Empires - Replicators Expansion

Deception - Murder in Hong Kong

Dixit - Daydreams Expansion

Camel Up: The Card Game

Sons of Anarchy: Calaveras Club Expansion

Dreadful Circus

Greedy Greedy Goblins

Super Mario - Level Up!

Ultimate Werewolf Legacy

Dig Your Way Out

Fog of Love: Paranormal Romance (Small Box Edition)

Jeux utilisants Hand Management et Bluffing

Operation F.A.U.S.T

Games: Good Cop, Bad Cop (3rd Edition)

Fast Forward - Fortune

Veiled Fate - Metal Edition

Disney Robin Hood - Sheriff of Nottingham

Guardian's Call

13 Days - The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962

Jeux publiés par Korea Boardgames et utilisants Bluffing

Jeux publiés par Rebel Sp. z o.o. et utilisants Bluffing

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Jeux publiés par Hobby World et utilisants Bluffing

Fast Forward - Fortress

Treasure Island

Android: New Angeles

Fast Forward - Fear

Rising Sun: Monster Pack Expansion

Jeux à thématique American West utilisants Bluffing

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• ...

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...

In 3000 Scoundrels, players assume the roles of rival leaders attempting to steal precious technology left behind by the Traveler. By overlaying clear cards, you create unique scoundrels and use them to outsmart your foes. In short, hire scoundrels to...

Jeux utilisants Push Your Luck et Bluffing

Sly: Micro Card Game

Incan Gold - The Race for Ancient Artifacts

World Championship Russian Roulette

Bottom of the 9th

Curses & Covens

Jeux publiés par Matagot et utilisants Bluffing

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...

In this game, try to gain as much gold as possible by dealing in shares before the huge stock market crash. Try to earn enough cash by cleverly buying and selling shares, so you can spend it on the coveted precious metal. If you are the best in manipulating...

Black Friday (2023 Edition)

Card Game utilisants Bluffing

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 ...

You are vying for the throne of the kingdom, intent on restoring the rightful heir. Use one of the three included modules to experience different play modes. Master the "Split & Trap" system to trick our opponent into choosing the wrong cards. Be the...

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...

Jeux utilisants Dice Rolling et 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...

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,...

Naga Raja is a two-player game where players move around the shifting paths of their temples in a race to accumulate treasure points.

Roll, shoot Bang! Test your survival skills with this fast moving version of BANG! The Dice Game: The Walking Dead. Based on the world's best-selling shoot 'em up card game Bang!, where players battle one another for supremacy! With each roll of the...

Jeux utilisants Roles with Asymmetric Information et Bluffing

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...

A Game of Intrigue, Tactics, & DeceptionAre you loyal to the noble House Atreides or a secret agent for the treacherous House Harkonnen?In this game of tactics and deception, you are secret agents amid the sands of Dune. Your goal is learn the identities...

"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...

Jeux conçus par Győri Zoltán Gábor et utilisants Bluffing

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...

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...

Jeux utilisants Worker Placement et Bluffing

Court of Miracles, The

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....

Area Majority / Influence

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Worker Placement

Jeux utilisants Modular Board et Bluffing

Hornet

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...

Area Majority / Influence

Simultaneous Action Selection

Jeux illustrés par Charles Walton et utilisants Bluffing

Cult of the Deep (Clearance)

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...

Jeux utilisants Betting et Bluffing

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!

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...

Say Anything (10th Anniversary)