Masquerade

A simple game of pretence for three players.

Can you pretend to be a kind of person you are not? Can you tell who is pretending and who is real? Choose a characteristic that two out of the three of you share and the remaining one will pretend to share. Choose male, female, religious, sports fan, football player, or whatever you like. One of the two who possesses the characteristic plays judge, the other plays non-pretender and the third person plays pretender. If you are the judge you get to ask as many questions as you like of the other two; you can make your guess at any stage. If you pick ‘quick game’ you play once. If you pick ‘full game’ there are three rounds and everyone plays each role in turn, so you will have to change the characteristic between rounds.

Two players share a trait (e.g. both are male, or both sports fans) while the third player does not (e.g. she is a woman, or doesn’t follow any team). One of the two players that share the trait becomes the judge and must question the others to identify the pretender.

Sound easy? Youd be surprised.

Play this game to see how good you are at spotting who is passing themselves off as someone else or to see if you know enough about the other two player’s lives to pretend to be someone you’re not.

Based on a Victorian parlour game adapted by Alan Turing for his Turing
Test for artificial intelligence and developed from cutting edge social
science research at Cardiff University.

Masquerade has three modes of play:
- a tutorial with a few sample questions and answers
- a single round game where a judge asks questions to try to identify the pretender
- a three player, three-round game where you compete against your friends to identify the pretender and play a pretend role yourself

Masquerade can be played by either three players sharing one device or between three separate devices over the Internet.

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