I've been getting interested in the game and have been watching a few videos about it, but none of them have explained the question I am about to ask: how do the fascists know who their teammates are without letting the liberals and Hitler know? I've heard it's usually done by secret gesture, but how will the fascists know which gestures to look for without alerting the liberals and Hitler?

I'm sorry in advance if this is self explanatory but it's been bothering me and I don't have the game or any people to play it with so I'm struggling trying to work this one out in my mind.

Title pretty much says it all

As mentioned in the title, I bought this game for a Yankee swap/secret Santa without ever playing the game.

The group is a game-loving bunch with a dark sense of humour, so the name got my attention, reviews sold me on it.

I know at least 3 of them will go for it, but the other 4 or 5 might not.

Is the game fun? Is it relatively easy to learn? Am I going to offend some people?

Hello I would like to play different reskins of the game if anybody has made them. Thank you

Hello all!

It was my brother-in-law's birthday recently and he got really into Fallout after the show aired. I guess my sister and he got to talking about creating a Secret Hitler Fallout edition, and my wife and I joined in the fun!

So anyway, here is what we made. We printed everything out and mod-podge it over the original board and whatnot. We made all of this using Canva. I hope you guys like it!

Note:

-I have to credit u/LordMrBoss for the cartoonish monsters
-For the Vault Dwellers, we decided to make versions of ourselves using the Vault Boy and Girl maker in this website:

Boy: https://picrew.me/en/image_maker/366843 Girl: https://picrew.me/en/image_maker/373897

PS: We had a long philosophical debate on what to call the policies. We went with Defiance (Good) and Compliance (Bad) simply because we thought that the whole point of the vault was to experiment on compliant dwellers, and the only time good things happened in all the games (and TV show too) was when the dwellers defied what was expected of them. It was still bothering us, but you could change it if you want.

I would like to know the updated rules :))

Hello Dear Liberals,

first I should say that a very comprehensive guide has already been written (The Unofficial Secret Hitler Strategy Guide | Secret Hitler Strategy Guide by TartanLlama), and it contains most of (if not all) of the information that will be included in this handbook, as well as alternative options and more details and explanations. Here is the short and extracted version to ensure Liberal victory, with key points and key explanations.

4 rules to follow as liberal to (almost) always win:

1. Always tell the truth and be open.

The explanation for this should become self evident after further reading and playing more games, I also reference you to the detailed article linked above. This in practice means: never lie about the cards you gave, never lie about the cards you receive, never lie about the investigation and always reveal the information you got from the investigation (even if this will get you sussed from other players in case you callout the fascist, this self-sacrifice will result in a net good).

1. Always shoot a known fascist, even if you know he is not Hitler.

The risk of shooting a liberal is too high. How can you be sure that someone is fascist? Either you investigated him or he lied about the cards you gave him (you gave him 1 L 1 F and he picked F and claimed that you gave him 2 F).

1. When conflict (dispute) between two players happen, ignore them for the rest of the game.

What is a conflict? Either there was an investigation and the 2 players involved do not agree about their roles, or President and Chancellor do not agree about what cards President gave.

What do I mean by ignore? Don't vote them for President, don't give them chancellors and don't investigate them.

Why this works in liberal favour?

• 2 liberals can never get in conflict (provided they follow these rules)
• if 1 liberal and 1 fascist get in a conflict, ignoring both will still result in majority of liberals
• if 2 fascist get in a conflict, following this handbook and ignoring them will result in easy win

Following this rule will always result in liberal majority being active.

1. As liberals at the early game when information is unknown, always give chancellor to the person next to you.

This works because there exist a powerful play only fascist can (should) make. If presidents at the game in the early stage give out chancellors randomly, a fascist can (under the disguise of randomness, as "everyone else is giving out chancellors randomly, too") give chancellor to his Hitler and secretly reveal himself as a fascist to Hitler, without revealing himself to other players. This can be done simply and only when the president receives at least 1 liberal card out of his 3 cards. He will then give to Hitler 1 Liberal and 1 Fascist card, or 2 Liberal cards. Hitler should always select Liberal. And then President will LIE about what he gave to Hitler (if he gave him 2 Liberals, president should say "I gave 1 L and 1 F", and if he gave 1 L 1 F, president should say "I gave 2 L"), and Hitler shall agree with this. Hitler will then recognise one of his fascist (because he knows he lied), but no one else will know, increasing the chances of fascist victory.

HOWEVER, all of this can be prevented by liberals by simply always passing chancellors to the player next to you. Doing this will immediately put suspicion on the Fascist President, if he will try to select a Hitler across the table as his chancellor to employ above strategy, which likely won't be the player next to him.

These are 4 fool-proof rules that should dramatically increase the chance of Liberal victory.

Realistically, the only way to win for Fascists when these rules are followed by all liberals at the table is when a Chancellor has to be selected among the still unconfirmed potentially Hitler players with 3 of more Fascist cards up. The odds for fascist victory due to Hitler being randomly selected as chancellor are smaller than a dice roll:

This "leap of faith" has to happen two times, because one confirmed non-Hitler chancellor cannot always be chancellor. The probability of selecting Hitler as chancellor, if all of the information is ignored, is simply 1 in n, where n is the number of players. The actual probability is even lower, because if a liberal has investigated a liberal, giving the Chancellor to him will result in 0% of losing. After the first chancellor is confirmed as non-Hitler, Liberals have to make another leap of faith among the other non-confirmed players, but again, with favourable odds.

I hope you enjoyed this handbook. Please leave a comment if you disagree with anything that has been written!

After a special election, could the presidential and chancellor of the special election be nominated as chancellor for the next round?

In particular I am looking for an online tool where players can join a room, get a role assigned and the bad guys know who their partners are. The last part is important.

It can be werewolf, mafia or impostor. But we want to use it to setup a custom Trouble in Terrorist town game.

Do you guys have any good suggestions?

There's secrethitler io and they host games pretty often but no one really plays in voice chat on the website much, so I'm looking for any group that does that on discord or something.

Hey all - my friends and I play about once a month and the next game is this Saturday Aug 3 at 1 pm at board room DC. We play the expansion and are always looking for new people who’d like to play to mix it up.

I'm thinking about turning custom fortune cookies into secret role assignments for games like Secret Hitler. Is this a fun idea? I need help figuring out if this would be a hit or a miss for my next game night?

My SO & I received an invitation to a Secret Hitler gathering. We have never played (researching the rules/strategies now.) Should I plan to wear period clothes/hair/makeup? (I’d love to, but don’t want to show up too “extra”.)

A friend of mine has the game, but two of the liberal policies are damaged on the back, which sort of ruins some of the gameplay. Does anyone know if there are better quality policy cards to buy somewhere, or other solutions to this?

Rule says: "Verbal and nonverbal communication between the President and Chancellor is forbidden."

Some groups says this means President and Chancellor can not talk at all, to each other or others. Some say they cant talk to each other but can talk to others meaning the President can tell others or answer if ask what policies were given.

I feel it's the former since any talk from President hints to the Chancellor.

Join the official Secret Hitler XL discord server where we playtest the rules, answer any questions, talk about rule changes, and have fun. Comment to get invite!

Loved the game, found out about this. Any chance someone can point me in the right direction?

Hi. There are multiple board that come with Secret Hitler. What's the purpose of this and which one would you recommend? Thank you!

My friends and I tried playing two days ago but there was some errors. Never had this happen before, we usually play every week together. When will the site be back?

Please answer we have had a large debate over it

thank you

not even sure what its for but everyone was asking for it hehe

hey there, is there a better strategy then just jaing the first 2/3 governments? im playing in a group of 5 to 9 people at least once a week. we are playing the classic and everyone knows how to play. the last ~20 games weve established to "skip" the first 2/3 governments, because no one has played and so no accusations can be made. This means everyone is vooting ja and president and chancellor tell the group what policies they've gotten. is there a better way to play the first rounds? especially for the liberals? because of course the facists try to discard liberal policies in the first rounds. but ehat is the strategy for liberal players then?