The Bloody Inn
France 1831: In a remote corner of Ardèche; the little village of Peyrebeille sees numerous travelers pass through. A family of greedy rural farmers is determined to make its fortune and has devised a diabolical stratagem to achieve this goal: Invest in an inn so they can rob traveling guests; getting rich without arousing the suspicions of the police! Whether or not their plan will work out; one thing is certain: Not every guest will leave this inn alive.
The Bloody Inn is a card game in which you play one member of a family of greedy; murderous innkeepers. At the start of each round; cards are placed face up to fill the inn with guests. Each card carries a cost representing how many cards a player must discard from her hand in order to take an action related to that card. Certain guests have an affinity for particular actions; so those cards return to a player's hand after being discarded. Cards also show how much money; in francs; each guest possesses. A round has two phases in which players take one action each; in turn order. Players choose one of the following actions:
bribe a guest into becoming an accomplice (take a card from the inn to their hand)
build an annex (move a card from their hand to their player area; it now represents a structure under which a victim may be buried)
kill a guest (move a card from the inn to their player area; awaiting burial)
bury a victim (place an unburied victim card under an annex card and take the money from the victim's pockets)
launder money (players may only have a certain amount of cash on hand; excess must be converted to 10F checks by the local notary)
At the end of the round; if any room of the inn contains one of the police; then they conduct an investigation; if a player has any unburied victims; then he must pay 10F per victim to the local gravedigger to hurredly — and quietly — bury the bodies! Lastly in the round; any cards (accomplices) in each player's hand must be paid 1F each. After the guest deck has been depleted the second time; players take a final round; then tally their francs. The player with the most money wins!
- Description from Publisher
AGES 14+
1-4 PLAYERS
PLAYTIME 30-60 minutes