Tips for all players

• Listen carefully to each other!

This is one of the most important aspects of the game, but also something most quickly underestimated/forgotten. All too often, players – unconsciously – give away information they can only know when they have a special role.

• Pay close attention during the night (phase)

Listen if you hear players suddenly fall silent when a role is called. Resp. see if you notice someone moving more when a role is called.

• Make the final observation.

Just before the day phase ends, make a good comment. For example, I think we should hang X… or I don’t think we should look for suspicion in this or that one…. Chances are that players will (unconsciously) take this into account when casting their votes and follow you in your ‘suggestion’. But beware: if the group (re)knows this trick, it soon works against you again 🙂

• Watch each other closely during the day phase.

Also pay close attention to how players behave during the day. Does a player suddenly play differently (quieter, or more present) than in previous rounds? Then that player might just have a different/special role!

• From those killed at night the most can be learned.

A lot can be learned from who is killed at night. After all, who gets hanged during the day can still be fairly random, but those killed at night are usually with clear intentions and reasons. Take advantage of that!

• Voting says more than you think.

When casting (daytime) votes, pay close attention to who is voting for whom. For example, Werewolves will usually not vote for each other.

And if, for example, a player A has already nominated player B twice in a row, and player A is killed at night, this could well indicate an action by the Werewolves (resp. player B) to keep someone quiet who was on the right track! 

Tips for (novice) Werewolves

• Take One For The Team

As Werewolves, you always win the game as a group, regardless of whether or not you (as wolf) are dead at the end. So, it can (sometimes) be attractive to sacrifice yourself as a wolf, thus making other wolves less suspicious. The civilians often only have so many chances to guess correctly before they lose: if, with your sacrifice, you can take 1 or more off that, the Werewolf group wins in the end!

• Take One From The Team.

As a wolf, also dare to take votes against a fellow wolf. That is: if you can’t reasonably divert any more attention towards someone else, of course. Always sparing your fellow wolves is incredibly conspicuous. And riding along increases the trust others have in you, because after all, you did vote along. Sometimes you have to sacrifice 1 wolf in order for the group to survive (see previous tip).

• Divide and conquer.

If two citizens accuse each other of being Werewolves during the day, you can choose to kill one of them at night. Chances are this will cause the other to be seen as a wolf, and get the game worked out!

• Don’t be too eager.

As Werewolves, when the daytime votes go in the wrong direction for civilians, don’t jump on top of them a masse. As nice as it is to see this happen as a wolf: it quickly gets noticed! And if you are later unmasked as a wolf, it becomes a lot easier for the citizens to figure out who else is werewolf then.