Tanuki Games

Insider - Oink

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$16.56 $23 In stock

Category: Board Games

Do we really have free will? Who decides this? Are we controlled by what we hear and what we see, even while thinking we decide freely? Insider is a game that deals with these questions. While communicating to others, you have to find the right answers to a quiz or find the "insider" who is manipulating the discussion. The insider will do everything to hide their identity while misleading the others.

Players are assigned roles at random. One player is the "master", and they secretly select a word from a set given in a deck of cards. (In a variant given in the rulebook, they can freely select and write down a word.) The "insider" player, whose role is not known to the other players, will then secretly view the word. The rest of the players are known as "commons". The commons then have approximately five minutes in which to ask the master "yes" or "no"-type questions so that they can deduce the secret word. The insider attempts to secretly lead the commons towards the correct word. If the commons fail to guess the correct word, everyone loses.

If, however, the word is correctly guessed in the allowable time, the master flips the sand timer, and the commons and master have until the sand runs out to discuss the game and deduce the identity of the insider. If they guess correctly, they win the game together; if they do not, the insider wins.

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Customer Reviews (4.3 / 5 · 3 reviews)

Chloe F. ★★★★★

I’ve never played a game that made me second-guess my own choices like this one does. The hidden-role mechanic really forces you to read between the lines, and rounds move fast enough that no one gets bored.

Olivia C. ★★★★★

The whole "who's really controlling the game" mechanic got our group arguing for hours in the best way. The hidden mastermind role makes every round tense and hilarious, even when you're just a regular villager trying to figure things out.

Chloe ★★★☆☆

The free will theme is interesting on paper, but in practice the game relies heavily on the group's mood to land. Ours took a few rounds before the "who's really controlling" mechanic clicked, and it fell flat with a quieter table. Decent for the right crowd, though I wouldn't pull it out for every