Attend a Masquerade of the renaissance & try to discover the identity of your opponents Who is telling the truth? Who is bluffing? Reveal the truth all while hiding your own true identity! The goal of the game is for players to gain the most gold pieces that they will amass either by telling the truth or alternatively bluffing Players each receive a Character card that they will switch or not with their opponents throughout the game play At each turn players have the option to either announce who there are & therefore are able to activate the power of that Character as long as none of the other players challenge them; to secretly look at their card; or to swap their card with another player Players in Mascarade start with six coins & a randomly dealt a character card Characters stay face up just long enough for players to more or less memorize them then are turned face down Your goal is to be the first player to hold 13 coins & while you start nearly halfway to that goal you can go down just as surely as you can go up! On a turn you take one of three actions 1) Announce your character Claim the power of a certain character & take the associated action You don&t have to have that character card in front of you to take this action but if someone else says that they&re that character & reveals the card to prove it that player takes the action instead while you lose one coin to the tribunal 2) Swap cards or not Take another player&s character card along with yours place them under the table shuffle them around a bit then give one card back to the other player while keeping one for yourself You (presumably) know whether you changed characters & can have some idea of who you are now but that other player might be in the dark 3) Secretly look at your character Look at your character card to make sure of who you are Play continues until one player obtains 13 coins & wins! Content 13 Character cards 1 Blank character card 1 courthouse boardcoins 14 Character markers including a blank character marker A player aid Rulebook Features A game of bluff & characters Options for 2 player & 3 player games Scalability in game play 2-13 players 10 Age 30 Minute gameplay