This type of game is characterized by players taking on the role of a fictional character. This group of games, also called RPG’s, are some of the most popular games ever made both on the tabletop and in video games. Modern RPG tabletop games have simplified the complex games that originally created the genre without sacrificing the freedom that make RPG games so much fun. So if you are keen to inculcate your staff with empathy, provide better customer service skills or trying out design thinking – role playing games are highly suitable. What other learning points can you think of if you included role playing in your training toolkit?
Spyfall is a party game unlike any other, one in which you get to be a spy and try to understand what's going on around you. It's played over several rounds, and at the start of each round all players receive cards showing the same location — a casino, a traveling circus, a pirate ship, or even a space station — except that one player receives a card that says "Spy" instead of the location. Players then start asking each other questions — "Why are you dressed so strangely?" or "When was the last time we got a payday?" or anything else you can come up with — trying to guess who among them is the spy. The spy doesn't know where he is, so he has to listen carefully. When it's his time to answer, he'd better create a good story!
At any time during a round, one player may accuse another of being a spy. If all other players agree with the accusation, the round ends and the accused player has to reveal his identity. If the spy is uncovered, all other players score points. However, the spy can himself end a round by announcing that he understands what the secret location is; if his guess is correct, only the spy scores points.
After a few rounds of guessing, suspicion and bluffing, the game ends and whoever has scored the most points is victorious!
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Some of the Spyfall cards in the game - can be played f2f or virtually