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Hoax

#139BGG ↗

1981 · 3-12 players · 45min · weight 1.35 · 231 ratings

v2 v3 v4 wide v4 deep

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ID
139
Name
Hoax
Year
1981
Rank
15678
Min players
3
Max players
12
Playing time
45
Min playtime
45
Max playtime
45
Avg weight
1.3529
Num weights
17
Bayes avg
5.53402
Average
5.91797
Users rated
231
Num owned
450
Wanting
27
Wishing
60
Num comments
114
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:34:57 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (3)
DeductionHidden RolesVoting
Categories (4)
BluffingDeductionFantasyMedieval
Description (700 chars)

The basic idea in Hoax is to pretend to be somebody you are not while working towards the goal of figuring out who other people are. Each player is assigned one of six different characters -- each with its own unique abilities -- but can pretend to be any character and use its corresponding powers. Abilities are used to acquire 3 different types of goods, which can be spent to get clues to opponents' identities. If the majority of the other players think you're pretending to be a character that you're not, you must either admit that you are not that character (and permanently lose the use of its power), or reveal that you are and win the game. Re-implemented as: Die Erben von Hoax

LLM v2 (wide)

Not yet enriched at v2 (wide pass).

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).

LLM v4 wide (controlled-vocab primitives)

Not yet enriched at v4 (wide pass).

LLM v4 deep (archetype fit)

Not in the v4 deep-pass top-20% slice.