Get the MacGuffin
The game Get the MacGuffin is a quick and humorous deduction game involving hand management and player elimination. The goal is to be the last player with cards. The player with the MacGuffin card will frequently win the game, but holding onto that card can prove quite difficult! Also, because there are 23 cards in the deck and players are always dealt an equal number of cards, there will always be some cards that are not in play. Figuring out which cards are missing is part of the strategy!
It was nominated for the 2019 Origins Awards Best Card Game.
Number of players: 2 - 11
Game duration: 6 mn
Complexity: 1 / 5
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Rules summary
Overview
The aim is to be the last player still with cards
Cards
Objects must be played to the table as your turn and later used for special power:
- MacGuffin: Pass as your turn if you have no other cards
- Backup MacGuffin: pass as your turn if you have no other cards, unless MacGuffin is in play
- The Money: Discard to take another object or a card in someone's hand
- The Crown: Pass as your turn unless any MacGuffin is in play
- The Paper: Discard this or The Rock
- The Rock: Discard this or The Scissors
- The Scissors: Discard this or The Paper
Play Actions and do what it says:
- The Spy: Look at another player's hand of cards
- Vortex: Shuffle all players' hands together and deal them back out
- Wheel of Fortune: All players pass their hands in clockwise or counterclockwise direction
- The Switcheroo: Trade hands with another player
- Can I Use That?: Take a random card from another player's hand and play it
- The Assassin: Discard Crown if it's in play, otherwise discard any Object or a random card
- Tomb Robbers: Add random card from unused card pile to your hand
- Garbage Collector: Take card of choice out of discard pile and add it to your hand
- The Thief: Steal an object or a random card and put it in your hand
- The Interrogator: The holder of the MacGuffin or the Backup Macguffin must reveal it
- The Merchant: If just one player has an Object, steal one, otherwise make an exchange
- I'm Not Dead Yet!: If you have no other cards, steal a non-MacGuffin Object or a card from someone's hand
- The Fist of Doom: Discard an Object in play. If none are, discard a random card from someone's hand
- The Shrugmaster: Shrug
- The Hippie: Show the peace sign
- Grand Marshal: Wave
