Town of Salem is a popular online game that got its start on Kickstarter & now we are bringing murder to your tabletop Here is how it works Each player is dealt a card face down by the moderator This card tells the player their role Evil roles are able to kill at night & the Good roles must find & lynch the Evil-doers During the day players accuse each other The player with the most accusations is put on trial to try to prove their innocence If you can&t convince the town you are lynched at the gallows The game ends when one side remains You can also change the roles you play with to make the game more challenging & more fun The game is really easy to play & kid friendly but hard to master With 20 unique roles every game is a new experience You have to decide who to trust & who to lynch in order to survive More about phases The Day Phase is split up into 4 smaller phases The Discussion Phase the Voting Phase the Defense Phase & the Judgement Phase Discussion Discussion time can be timed or not depends more on the party (House Rules 10 minutes is a good starting time with 30 seconds less for each player eliminated) After discussion ends or once you have decided you would like to vote as a group voting phase starts Voting Voting time can be timed or not & you vote on whoever you think is bad (Many ways to do this again house rules you can write a note to the mod raise hands or thumbs up or down You can do it in 321 fashion or just ask if everyone is done voting) The player or players voted up now stand trial & must defend themselves to the Town Defense Defense time may be timed or not but a standard time of 2 minutes seems to be enough No one may talk while the player is defending himself & once he is finished with his defense judgement starts without more discussion Judgement the Judgment phase may or may not be timed The players not standing trial vote whether the player standing trial is guilty or innocent (If you are using the vote two players up variant then one is chosen to be lynched) If a player is voted guilty that player is lynched they reveal their role & the next night begins Night The night phase starts with the Moderator telling players to go to sleep (close their eyes) The Moderator will then call upon every role with a night action to perform said action The first night has some special conditions such as the Moderator must tell the Executioner his target if he is game & every role that can be found Evil (that is known) must be called before the Sheriff The night phase ends when all actions are taken & the Day begins again