Heaven, Here I Come! Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Objective
• Components
• Game Setup
• Gameplay
  • Inspection Phase
  • Discussion Phase
• End Game
• Example

Objective

Heaven, Here I Come is an alignment game with deduction and bluffing. Players are secretly divided into two teams, the Sinner team and the Scapegoat team. Players will not usually know which team they are on at the beginning of the game. Each team may consist of one or more players. Try to determine which team you are on, keep it secret, and then figure out which team others are on. Eventually, someone will make an accusation and then the real fun begins.

Components

• 25 Sin cards
• 1 Sin Reference Board
• 10 Player markers (numbered 1-10)
• 10 Player Screens (numbered 1-10)
• 10 Voting Tokens (double sided: thumbs up on one side, cross on the other)

Game Setup

1. All players sit in a circle.
2. Give each player a Voting Token, a random Player Screen and the Player Marker of the same number as your Player Screen. Return the rest to the box.
3. Place the Sin Reference Board in the center of the play area.
4. Shuffle the 25 Sin Cards. Deal one card secretly to each player.
5. Each player looks at their card and places it FACE DOWN on their LEFT. There should then be a Sin card on their RIGHT.
6. Each player then looks at the card on their RIGHT and puts it back FACE DOWN.

Important: Remembering the two symbols on the card reveals to each player what their secret sin is, according to the chart on the Player Screen. For example, Envy-face symbol plus Sloth-Zzz symbol means Envy. Players must keep their secret sin a secret. No one was free from sin. This is what you had committed when you were alive, and your sin may have been witnessed by another player!

7. Each player then draws a number of cards which forms his/her hand (refer to the list below). Any remaining cards are placed face up in the center for all to see.

Players	Cards in hand
5 players	4 cards
6 players	3 cards
7 or 8 players	2 cards
9 or 10 players	1 card

Note: Everyone will have committed one of the seven deadly sins. Some people will have committed the same sin. The sins are ranked on the Player Screen from Most to Least sinful. (The ranking is just part of the game, not a carefully considered spiritual ranking.) So if you look at the chart, you will see that Pride is the greatest sin and Lust is the least.

Note: Depending on how the cards are dealt out, there will (usually) be two teams. The player or players that have committed the Least sin are on the Scapegoat team. For example, if no one has Lust, then maybe the Gluttony people are on the Scapegoat team. Usually, the Scapegoat is the minority. All the other players are on the Sinner team. The player or players with the single greatest sin is called The Badass.

In a rare case, when the number of players in Scapegoat team are more than (or equal to) Sinner team, only the player in Scapegoat team with the lowest numbered screen is the Scapegoat. You will only know it in Endgame phase (see p.8 - Resolve the Game).

In the example in the diagram, no one has Pride so Elena and Helen are the Badasses and Peter is the Scapegoat team. All players except Peter are on the Sinner team.

Gameplay

A game consists of three phases:

• Inspection phase
• Discussion phase
• Endgame

Inspection Phase

Each player will look at a facedown card of another player.

After the players know which sin is theirs, the game begins with the player with the lowest numbered screen. The start player will then look at a facedown card which is at least three cards away from where he or she is sitting (because he already knows the cards on his right and left). He cannot look at the cards two away, because then he would be able to immediately figure out the sins of his right and left neighbors. By looking at a card that is 3 or more away, he will learn one of the symbols that is common to the two players sitting next to that facedown card. Then the inspecting player places one of his markers on the facedown card he just looked at. (At any time a player may look at a card that his or her marker is on or the ones to his right or left.)

After each player, in clockwise order, looks at a distant card, the Discussion phase begins.

Discussion Phase

Discussion: Everyone can speak freely.

Accusation: Anytime during discuss phase, any player can play a card from his or her hand to take a POLL. The played card is revealed face up and put on the designated space on the Reference Board according to the card's symbol. Everyone can see the revealed card. By placing the card, that player (the Accuser) then accuses another player (the Defendant) of being not worthy of a place in heaven. Now the Accuser will make his or her case and a poll will be taken. If more than a player wishes to take a poll at the same time, resolve in ascending order according to number on Player Screen.

The Accuser makes his or her case: The Accuser tries to convince a majority of the other players that the Defendant is a Scapegoat. It's not much of a discussion now, because no one but the Accuser is allowed to speak.

Strategy Hint: This is a good chance for players to speak freely not being interrupted.

Take a Poll: When the Accuser is done speaking, everyone votes on whether they agree with the Accuser or not. Put the Voting Token in hand with the side chosen. The Accuser counts "One, two, three, vote!" Then everyone, including the Accuser and Defendant, simultaneously open their hands, with intended side of Voting Token face-up, then count the votes.

Generally speaking (for Sinner team members):

• THUMBS UP: means you agree that the Defendant is a Scapegoat, not on the Sinner team.
• CROSS: means that you think that the Defendant is on the Sinner team, not a Scapegoat.

Determine the results:

• If more than half of the players voted THUMBS UP, then the poll has PASSED and proceed to the END GAME (explained below).
• If half or less of the players voted CROSS, then the poll has been REJECTED and the discussion continues until another poll is called.

Editor's note on the last rule: the printed English says "half or less of the players voted CROSS" for a rejected poll, which leaves a vote where more than half cross (and not more than half give thumbs up) without a result. The Chinese text of the same booklet says the poll is rejected when crosses make up half or more of the votes. The English is kept as printed; the Chinese wording is the likely intended rule.

Strategy Hint: Making an accusation and playing a card allow you to give information and to find out how others are going to vote.

End Game

The Defendant makes a Last Stand accusation. Resolve the game.

Last Stand: After a poll has PASSED, the defendant must make a Last Stand by naming all player or players who is/are the Badass(es).

Resolve the game: Flip over all the facedown cards. First, determine if the Defendant was a Scapegoat. If NOT, the Scapegoat team wins. If the defendant was a Scapegoat, then determine whether he or she correctly named all the players who committed the highest-ranking sin (Badass). If the defendant did this completely and correctly, then the Scapegoat team wins. If not, then the Sinner team wins.

Refer to the chart. Read the example.

Example

Example (6 player sample): Helen (ACCUSER) accused Peter and the POLL passed. Peter made the Last Stand and named Helen as the Badass. Everyone then flipped over the facedown Sin cards. Peter was in lowest ranking, Greed. He was in the Scapegoat team. Check his Last Stand. He only named Helen and missed Elena was also the Badass. His Last Stand failed and Sinner team won the game.