Play here https://fake-artist.herokuapp.com/.
In each round there will one player randomly selected as the "fake artist".
- If you are not the fake artist, your objective is to correctly identify the player that is the fake artist.
- If you are the fake artist, your objective is to avoid being identified as the fake artist! However, if you are identified at then you still have one last chance to win (this is explained below).
At the start of a round, every player is shown what the category is e.g. "Musical Instruments".
In addition to the category every player, except one randomly selected player - the fake artist - is told the specific thing within that category e.g. "Trumpet". So everyone except for the fake artist will see "Musical Instruments - Trumpet", but the fake artist will only see "Musical Instruments - X".
We go round the group and each player has two goes at drawing something on the board. Non fake-artists will want to convey that they know the specific thing, and the fake artist just has to make it up. Once everyone has had two goes, there is a discussion and a vote to see if everyone can agree on who they think the fake artist is.
If the group correctly guesses who the fake artist is, then the fake artist gets one opportunity to guess what they think the specific thing is (in this example, a trumpet). See scoring below.
In this game you cannot take your "pen" off the "paper", everything has to be drawn with a single line (but every player does get two goes at drawing each round)
- The group selects the wrong person as the fake artist? The fake artist wins!
- The group selects the correct person as the fake artist but the fake artist correctly guesses what the specific thing is? The fake artist wins!
- The group selects the correct person as the fake artist and the fake artist incorrectly guesses what the specific thing is? The group win!
- If you are not the fake artist then you need to be careful - if you draw something too ambiguous then everyone else will suspect you instead of the fake artist and the fake artist will win. However if you draw something too obvious, or otherwise give the secret away, then the fake artist will either be able to blend in and hard to spot, or they will be able to guess at the end of the round and still win!
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