10 Nights
10 Nights Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Components
- 1 x Boardgame
- 12 x Characters Tokens
- 12 x Characters Cards
- 8 x Role Cards
- 1 x Rulebook
How to Play
At the start of every game, each player receives a "role card" and a "character card".
There are two roles: murderer and innocent. There will always be one murderer, being the rest of the players "innocent". You have to keep your role and your character in secret at all times.
Characters tokens will be dealt randomly across the board, placing four of them in each room.
Following that, four character cards will be selected randomly. Characters from those cards will be taking the role of witnesses and their chips will be faced down to differentiate them from the rest (ending up in black and white).
[Illustration: an example of the game setup, showing the board with the character tokens placed in the rooms.]
The game's objective differs depending on each player's role:
- Innocents will try to guess the murderer, i.e., finding which player and character plays that role in the game.
- The murderer will try to eliminate all the witnesses without being discovered before 10 nights.
Night
During the night, which lasts 15 seconds, all players will close their eyes, except for the murderer, which silently will open them and make his play. This play can consist of:
- Not making any move.
- Murder a character that is on the same room as the murderer.
- Move any character (including witnesses or himself) to an adjacent room.
- A combination of two of the previous actions.
The murderer cannot kill the character he has moved.
After ending this phase, the day will start, and every player will open their eyes.
If a live witness remains after the last night, the murderer will lose the game.
Day
During the day phase, which lasts for 45 seconds, each player can make just one movement, that can be moving any character, only if it is not a witness, to the adjacent room. In case of considering it necessary, the player can make no movements.
Also during the day is when every player can propose an accusation of murder to someone. The accusation works in the following way:
- There can only be one accusation. In case of failure, the murderer will win automatically.
- The accusation is combined, meaning that it is compulsory that everybody, except for the accused, is willing to do the accusation.
- It is required to say who the murderer is and what is his character.
10 Nights Applications
To squeeze all the fun 10 Nights can offer you can use the app. In it, after pressing the play button the first night will start. The screen will display the current phase of the game. Some background noises will play in order to make it harder to identify the murderer.
When the timer on the screen gets to 0, the next phase will start automatically. This cycle will repeat itself 10 times until the game is done. If you discover the murder before 10 nights go by, you can break this loop by pressing the button "Back".
[QR code linking to the app omitted.]
Editor's note: the Spanish rulebook on page 4 of the same PDF gives the cancel button for this case as "Abandonar" (Abandon); the English text above is transcribed as printed.