One Night Ultimate Werewolf: Daybreak FAQ
69 questions players ask · Updated Nov 12, 2026 · Full rulebook
General
- Can a Daybreak role target its own card?
- If no one dies from a vote, is the game a draw?
- Does a Minion count as a Werewolf if it is the only evil player and no one is a Werewolf?
- Can night card changes change a player's team or role without them knowing?
- What is the night wake order for the Daybreak roles?
- When a Doppelgänger copies the Revealer or Curator, when does its action happen?
- If every player gets exactly one vote, does anyone die?
- Can a player lie or pretend to be a role during the night phase?
Playing With the Daybreak Roles
Roles That Wake Up at Night
- What team does a Doppelgänger-Nostradamus join, and what happens if Nostradamus takes no action?
- Does Nostradamus change role or only team, and must it survive to win with its team?
- Does the Paranormal Investigator stop looking after seeing a Werewolf or Tanner?
- How many cards may the Paranormal Investigator look at?
- Does the Paranormal Investigator physically swap cards when it becomes a Werewolf or Tanner?
- If a Robber or Troublemaker swaps a P.I. or Doppelgänger that became a Werewolf, does the Werewolf allegiance stay with the card?
- Can the Seer look at one center card, then decide whether to view the Alpha Wolf's center Werewolf card?
- Does the Village Idiot move its own card?
- Does an Apprentice Seer or Apprentice Tanner made by a Copycat or Doppelgänger act like the original role?
- If the Paranormal Investigator views a Werewolf, does the P.I. card or the player become a Werewolf?
- Can a card with a Sentinel shield token be moved or targeted by night actions?
- Does the Revealer flip the Apprentice Tanner face down?
- Does a player who chooses not to rob or switch count as having moved a card for the Aura Seer?
- Can a Tanner exist in a standalone Daybreak game?
- If the Witch swaps herself with a center card whose role acts later, does she take that role's night action?
Werewolf Team Roles
- Does seeing any Werewolf type, such as Alpha Wolf, Dream Wolf or Mystic Wolf, trigger the Paranormal Investigator or Revealer?
- Is the Alpha Wolf required to turn another player into a Werewolf?
- Can roles that view or move a center card also view or move the Alpha Wolf's center Werewolf card?
- Does the player an Alpha Wolf turns into a Werewolf know it is a Werewolf?
- Does the Mystic Wolf's card view get shared with the other Werewolves?
- Do the other Werewolves know who the Dream Wolf is?
- Does a player who becomes the Dream Wolf during the night give the Dream Wolf's thumb signal?
- Can the Alpha Wolf choose a Werewolf as its conversion target?
No-Wake Roles
- If a Hunter and the Bodyguard both point at the same Werewolf and the Hunter dies, does the Werewolf die?
- If the Bodyguard protects the Hunter, does the player the Hunter pointed at still die?
- Who dies when the Bodyguard protects the player with the most votes and the Prince has the second most?
- If the Bodyguard protects the only player with more than one vote, does anyone die?
- Do a Hunter's or Bodyguard's abilities depend on the role the player ends the game with?
- Does a killed Hunter get to choose whether to shoot its target?
- If two players tie with one vote each and three tie with two votes each, and the Bodyguard protects one of the three, who dies?
- If one Tanner dies, do all Tanners win?
Artifacts
- Can the Curator place an Artifact on a card protected by the Sentinel's shield?
- Can a player receive more than one Artifact?
- Does the Curator choose which Artifact a player receives?
- Can a player who is not the Curator, such as an Apprentice Seer, use the Curator's action to place an Artifact?
- Does an Artifact move with the card it is placed on?
- Does an Artifact stop the card beneath it from being viewed or moved?
- Can an Artifact stop a role's night action from happening?
- Do Artifacts override a player's role powers, including voting powers like the Bodyguard's?
- Does a Shroud of Shame holder see the table at the start, or must they turn away?
- Can a player bluff about which Artifact they received?
- If you hold the Mask of Muting, can you still bluff about your artifact?
Doppelgänger and Daybreak
- When does the Doppelgänger-Curator place its Artifact token?
- Does the Doppelgänger copy a role or a player?
- Does a Doppelgänger who copies the Sentinel get its own shield?
- Does the Alpha Wolf's Doppelgänger swap the center Werewolf card the same way the Alpha Wolf does?
- Does a Doppelgänger-Dream Wolf give its thumb signal to the other Werewolves at the same time as the original Dream Wolf?
- Does a Doppelgänger who copied the Paranormal Investigator or Robber wake with the Werewolves after becoming a Werewolf?
- Does a Doppelgänger-P.I. or Copycat-P.I. take a non-waking action for a new role if it lacks the needed information?
- If the Paranormal Investigator views a Doppelgänger that copied a Werewolf, does the P.I. become a Werewolf?
- If a Doppelgänger or P.I. card is moved to the center and then taken by the Drunk, does it keep its copy effect?
One Night Ultimate Werewolf: Bonus Pack 2Expansion
- Does a Paranormal Investigator who became a Werewolf stick up a thumb for the Squire?
- Do Werewolves made by the Robber, Witch or Insomniac stick up a thumb for the Squire?
- Can a non-Thing player bump a neighbour's shoulder during the Thing's phase?
- What does the Thing do?
- When do the Squire and Beholder act at night?