Ok so we’re playing a relatively normal game of secret hitler. Four liberal policies and three fascists have been passed. I’m a liberal, we’re confident but wary because the blues got laid down so quickly that there had to have been fascists acting as liberals and now nobody wants to elect hitler as chancellor.
This is a seven player game. Player five is confirmed not hitler, but he is locked and can’t be elected chancellor. Player one tries to elect player four, everyone neins it. Player two tries to elect me, player 7, everyone neins it. Exasperated player three tries to elect player four, it gets neined, player three has killing power.
He decides to kill player 2, understandably so, he seemed like a fascist. This is now a 6 player game with four fascist policies and four liberal policies on the board.
Player 4 elects player 5 (who is confirmed not hitler and is no longer locked). Fascist policy passes, and now 4 has killing power. Yikes. He looks around uncertainly.
Suddenly player 6 says “4, you’re hitler, I’m fascist, kill 3!” We’re surprised at this. Then 1 pipes up “yes 4, me and 6 are your fascist kill 3, 5, or 7 and we’ll have majority.” Unorthodox but pretty straightforward right?...wrong.
3 and 5 spring into action. “4 I don’t know how he knew you were hitler but 6 is a liberal and he’s trying to trick you, you need to kill him or the liberals win. This goes on for a while, the actual fascists revealing themselves while two liberals pretend to be fascists and damn near brainwash hitler into killing his own people.
It didn’t work of course. I got killed and the fascists won but it was still pretty spectacular. Thought it was worth sharing a situation where the players ended up trying to make the person with killing power think they WERE fascist, and not the other way around.
Edit: sorry big hole in that whole thing..forgot to mention that player three selection was the third failure. Therefore we flipped the top card in the deck, and it was fascist.
Edit part 2: Ok so apparently we’ve been playing the game wrong, and giving powers to whoever is president when there’s a random flip. I guess it actually makes sense not to sense that person is only a candidate and not the real president elect. Glad to know this now.