Werewolf Rules

A party game where players are assigned roles as either villagers or werewolves, and the villagers must deduce who among them is a werewolf through discussion and voting. The game involves bluffing, persuasion, and social deduction as players work to identify and eliminate the werewolves​

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Objective: The goal of Werewolf is for the villagers to identify and eliminate the werewolves or for the werewolves to outnumber the villagers. This is a social deduction game that relies on player interaction and bluffing.

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Setup

1. 5 or more players and one moderator

2. Designate a game moderator who will guide the game and not participate as a player. Have the moderator rotate after the conclusion of each game. There's also an app to automate the game moderation

3. Randomly distribute role cards to players. For 5 players have only one werewolf, if you're playing with 7 or more players, have two werewolves

4. Place three role cards in the center

5. The game has two main phases (Day and night), start with the Night phase and the game only goes for one round, however you can adapt it to go multiple rounds

6. Cheat sheet of roles

• Essential Roles (Use when playing 5-6 players​)

  • Villager: On the villager team

    • No special abilities, very innocent​

  • Seer: On the villager team

    • May look either at one other player's card or at two of the center cards secretly

  • Robber: On the villager team

    • May choose to rob a card from another player and place his Robber card where the other card was and then the Robber looks at his new card

    • The Robber is on the team of the card he takes, however, he does not do the action of his new role until the next night (if playing multiple rounds).

  • Werewolf: On the werewolf team

    • Werewolves open their eyes and look for other werewolves

    • If no one else opens their eyes, the other Werewolves are in the center.

  • Troublemaker: On the villager team

    • Troublemaker may switch the cards of two other players without looking at those

    • The players who receive a different card are now the role (and team) of their new card, even though they don't know what role they are until the end of the round

• Roles to include when playing from over 6 players

  • Minion: On the werewolf team

    • After the werewolves acknowledge each other, they put their thumbs up so the Minion can wake up and see who the Werewolves are

    • Minion wants to get themself killed and protect the Werewolves

  • Mason: On the villager team

    • Always put both Masons in the game

    • The Mason wakes up at night and looks for the other Mason. If Mason doesn't see another Mason, it means the other Mason card is in the center

  • Drunk: ​​On the villager team until he exchanges cards

    • Comes time to wake up at night, exchange the Drunk card for any card in the center, but he does not look at it. The Drunk is now the new role in front of him (even though he doesn't know what that new role is)

  • Insomniac: On the villager team

    • Wakes up and looks at their card (to see if it has changed). Only use the Insomniac if the Robber and/or the Troublemaker are in the game

  • Tanner: Not on the werewolf or the villager team, the goal is to get lynched as a Tanner

    • Tanner dies and a Werewolf also dies, the village team wins too

    • The Tanner is considered a member of the village (but is not on their team), so if the Tanner dies when all werewolves are in the center, the village team loses

  • Hunter: On villager team

    • If the hunter dies, the player he is pointing at dies as well (regardless of how many votes his target receives).

  • Doppelganger​: Recommend not utilizing this card, unless you have to as this character is generally very complicated)