YOUR SECRET.
SOMEONE
ELSE’S
PROBLEM.

Early-access rules. This guide follows our current playtest version. Details may change before the final printed edition.

1. 01

   SET THE TABLE.

   Gather 3–6 players. Separate the object cards from the action cards and shuffle each deck on its own.

   5

   Objects per playerDeal face up in front of each player. Everyone can see them. Set the remaining objects aside, out of play.

   

   4

   Actions per playerDeal into each player’s private hand. Keep the rest face down as the draw pile, with space for a face-up discard pile.

   

   Choose a starting player at random. Take turns clockwise.

2. 02

   ON YOUR TURN, MAKE ONE MOVE.

   Play GIFT or EXCHANGE from your hand, then discard the action card. Choose another player; you cannot target yourself.

   

   GIFT

   Pass a whole matching group.

   Choose one type of object you own and offer all your objects of that type to one other player. Keep them in front of you until that player responds.

   Two Secret Photos and a Spare Key? You can offer both photos together, or the key. You cannot give just one of the two photos.

   

   EXCHANGE

   Swap one for one.

   Choose one of your objects and one of another player’s objects, then swap them. You choose both cards. The other player cannot refuse, DENY, or REDIRECT the exchange.

   An exchange moves one object from each player, even when either object is part of a matching group. ALIBI can be exchanged too.

   No GIFT in your hand?

   On your turn, discard any two action cards to make a gift instead. They may be the same type. Offer a whole matching group and use the normal gift responses. The discarded cards’ usual effects do not happen.

   DENY and REDIRECT are responses, not moves you can play on your own turn. You may only pass if you have no legal move.

3. 03

   GETTING A GIFT? CHOOSE ONE RESPONSE.

   The player offered the gift chooses what happens to the entire group.

   

   TAKE THE WHOLE GROUP

   ACCEPT

   No action card neededTake all the offered objects and put them face up in front of you. You spend no action card.

   Sender→You

   

   DENY

   Play 1 DENYPlay and discard one DENY. All the objects stay with the sender. Their GIFT, or two substitute cards, stays spent.

   Objects stay with sender↶

   

   REDIRECT

   Play 1 REDIRECTPlay and discard one REDIRECT. Send the whole group to a third player—not yourself or the sender. That player must accept it.

   Sender→Third player

   One response. That’s it. A redirected gift cannot be denied or redirected again. If you cannot or choose not to spend a response card, accept the gift.

4. 04

   CHECK FOR A WIN. THEN REFILL.

   After the gift or exchange fully resolves, check everyone’s objects. Anyone with zero scandalous objects wins immediately—even outside their own turn. If more than one player qualifies at once, they share the win.

   If nobody has won, everyone who spent action cards draws back up to four cards. The player whose turn it is draws first, then other players who spent cards draw in clockwise order. If you accepted without spending a card, you do not draw.

   If the action draw pile runs out, shuffle the discarded action cards to make a new draw pile. The next player clockwise takes their turn, even if they just responded to a gift.

THE ALIBI RULE

AN ALIBI CAN STAY.
THE EVIDENCE CAN’T.

ALIBI is an object, but it is not scandalous. You can gift or exchange it. It does not block actions, cancel other objects, or give you immunity.

Your last gift: two keys.

Before your gift

→

After acceptance
or redirection

You have two Spare Keys and an ALIBI. You gift both keys to another player.

• They accept: the keys leave. You win.
• They redirect: the keys go to a third player. You still win.
• They deny: you keep the keys. Play continues.

Offering your last objects is not enough. The move must fully resolve before you win.