In Vino Morte
In Vino Morte Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Components
- 9 Wine cards
- 9 Poison cards
Objective
Be the last player alive.
Setup
Choose one player to be the dealer.
If you can't decide who among you should be the dealer, you probably shouldn't be drinking a glass of wine, poison, or otherwise.
The dealer takes all 16 cards, looks at them, then chooses and places one face-down card in front of each player (including themself).
The dealer must place at least one Wine card and at least one Poison card each round.
Players may not look at their own cards.
Any unused cards are set aside, face-down.
The player to the dealer's left goes first.
Turn Order
Starting with the first player and proceeding clockwise, each player will choose to Drink or to Swap.
Drink
If they choose to drink, they flip over their card.
If it's a bottle of Wine, they survive to play the next round.
If it's a bottle of Poison, they die and are out of the game.
Swap
If they choose to swap, they swap their card with any other player who has a face-down card.
Both of these cards remain face-down.
Round End
Play continues clockwise until every player, except the dealer, has taken a turn.
When it's the dealer's turn, every player who hasn't drunk flips over their own card.
Anyone who reveals the Poison dies and is out of the game.
All cards are collected and all surviving players play another round. The surviving player to the dealer's right becomes the new dealer.
End of Game
Keep playing until only one player remains. That player is the winner.
Credits
Design: Chris Anderson Art: Ben Toz © 2018 Button Shy Games
Rules questions? Visit buttonshygames.com for answers and variant rules.
Variant: Caseus Vitae
Cheese cards, printed and packaged alongside the base game, add a wrinkle to who lives and who dies.
Setup
Include a number of Cheese cards based on the number of players in the current round.
- 2 players = 0 cheese
- 3-4 players = 0-1 cheese
- 5-6 players = 0-2 cheese
- 7+ players = 0-3 cheese
How to Play
When you deal out the cards, you may also deal out Cheese cards to whomever you choose.
Each player normally receives one covered glass, and some players may also receive a Cheese card.
During a turn, a player may Drink or Swap glasses normally, or choose to steal the cheese from another player instead.
Players cannot give away cheese, or have more than one cheese at a time.
When you drink, if you have cheese, the results of your drink are reversed: the Wine will kill you and the Poison will not.