Judge Your Friends Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Contents
• Object of the Game
• Set Up
• How to Play
• Winning the Game
• Objection!

Contents

• Golden Gavel
• Guilty Coaster
• Not Guilty Coaster
• 200 Scenario Cards
• 8 Guilty Cards
• 8 Not Guilty Cards
• $15,800 in Play Money

Object of the Game

Be the player with the most cash at the end of five (5) rounds by correctly judging whether your fellow players are guilty or not guilty of different scenarios.

Set Up

1. Deal each player a Guilty Card and a Not Guilty Card and $200.
2. Shuffle the Scenario Cards and place them face down in the middle of all players, along with the Guilty and Not Guilty Coasters, Gavel and the Money. The stack of Money becomes The Bank.

How to Play

1. The oldest player begins Round 1 as the Judge and takes the Gavel and Guilty and Not Guilty Coasters from the middle. All other players begin Round 1 as the Defendants.
2. The Judge draws a Scenario Card from the deck and reads one of the two scenarios aloud to the group. Defendants decide if they are Guilty or Not Guilty and then place the corresponding Card face down in front of them.
3. The Judge then guesses, one at a time, which plea each Defendant submitted. As each verdict is rendered, the Judge strikes the corresponding Guilty or Not Guilty Coaster with the Gavel.
4. After a verdict is rendered to a Defendant, that Defendant then flips over the Guilty or Not Guilty card to reveal the plea. The Judge earns $100 for each correct verdict from The Bank.
5. When all Defendants have revealed their pleas, play continues clockwise, with the player to the Judge's left becoming the Judge and taking the Gavel and Coasters. All other players again take on the role of Defendant. A round ends when every player has played the role of Judge.

Winning the Game

At the end of five (5) rounds, the player with the most cash wins the game.

Objection!

Some Defendants may feel the need to lie about certain scenarios. If other Defendants catch the lie, they can yell "objection!" The objecting Defendant must then provide proof (story, picture, video if you're lucky) of that lie. The Judge then weighs the evidence and can decide to "Overrule" or "Sustain" the Defendant's objection.

• If the Judge overrules the objection, the objecting Defendant must pay the accused Defendant $100.
• If the Judge sustains the objection, the accused Defendant must pay the objecting Defendant $100.