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In the pursuit of political supremacy, knowledge is key. Since the revolution, two factions have been fighting for power in the dystopian, cyberpunk city of Intellexia. In order to break the years long deadlock and secure control of the city, each faction must uncover their adversary’s secret plans hidden inside their top secret, code-protected briefcase.
Your job, if you are to accept it, is to protect your secret code by cleverly deploying card abilities, by seeking help from the Guards, Assassins, and Sentinels at the local tech-noir guilds, and by encrypting information when you can. But espionage is a two-way street. While trying to deny your opponent information about your secret code, you must try to crack theirs.
Classified Information is a fast-playing (10-minutes or less), 2-player "iterative" deduction microgame that is fully contained within just 18 cards. Each turn a player plays a card from their hand in one of three ways (for its ability, for its guild affiliation or by discarding it out of the game). Once the draw deck is depleted players reveal their secret code and the single card left in their hand, if their card matches a number in their opponent's code they may win the game, but things may not be so easy if their opponent also matches and has more guards, or has cleverly guarded their briefcase!
LB_NUMBER_OF_PLAYERS: 2
Game duration: 11 mn
Complexity: 3 / 5
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Rules summary
Goal of the Game
In Classified Information each player is trying to deduce their opponent’s Code and have one card in their hand that matches one of the numbers in their opponent’s Code when the game ends.
Game turn
1- Draw a card from the Draw Pile.
2- Play a card in one of three ways.
Deploy
Play a card for its Card Ability. Carry out the card’s Card Ability text and place it in the Discard Pile.
Encrypt
Play a card face down into the hidden Encrypted Card Pile.
Note: this conceals information from your opponent.
Enlist
Play a card for its Guild Affiliation:
Guards
Played face down into one of your three Guard spots.
Note: You may only have three Guards at any time.
Assassins
Attempt or carry out an assassination. Played face up and then discarded.
Sentinels
Can be used either as a Guard or as an Assassin. Played face up or down accordingly
End of game
The game ends when the Draw Deck is empty and each player has one card left in hand (“Final Card”). Then, all Suitcases and Guards are revealed.
If a player’s Final Card matches a number in their opponent’s Code they win. Guards block matching numbers in the Code of the Suitcase they are guarding, preventing any card of that number from winning the game.
If both players have, or neither player has, an unguarded matching card, the player with more Guards wins. If tied, share the victory.
Numbers on opponent face down Guards
You can take note on opponent's Guard when you try an assassination and it's failed. You can use numbers to remind which number is not in their code.
For example, if you try an assassination with a code like [3,4,5] and you miss, their code can't be [1,2,3], [3,4,5], [4,5,6] and [5,6,7]. In this case, you can highlight number [2,3,4,5,6] (the middle number of each code) since the suitcase number will not be one of them.