Matt and Friends play Coup.

This week, my friends and I took a trip to The Dystopian Universe. It’s a world of intense government corruption, and political espionage. The Dystopian Universe is the setting to several games including The Resistance and One Night Revolution. This week, my friend

Coup, a dystopian game of manipulation and bribery.

s Scott, Andrew, and I dove into that world and staged a Coup.

Coup is a pretty simple card game for 2 to 6 players designed by Rikki Tahta. It’s super easy to learn and the game itself only takes about 15 minutes to play. Perfect for the uber nerds who may want to play a game while waiting for drinks at a bar.

The game is centered around a royal court, and you take on the role of a power hungry billionaire who seeks control over these royal politicians, and basically control the entire government from the shadows. Your only competition is the other power hungry billionaires also seeking control. Your best tool is to use your money, lies, and deceit to best your opponents.

Coup comes with a deck of fifteen cards that represent 5 different agents to help you with your goal, and several tokens to represent the currency you use to pay them off, or stage a coup.

Each player starts with two cards to represent their influence on the court. These cards also dictate what you can do going forward. For example, the Duke allows you to collect three tokens from the bank, or the Assassin, who allows you to kill off one of your opponents cards from the game.

The Assassin (Left) and The Duke (Right)

The Assassin is super helpful since you have to eliminate the two cards from your opponents hands in order to win the game. You can also kill off these cards by staging a coup, which requires at least 7 tokens, and must be done if you have ten or more.

My friends and I must have played about 20 different rounds of Coup the other night. Constantly lying and betraying each others trust the entire game. You keep the cards that you have secret from the others, and you only reveal your cards if you are challenged by another player. This caused some mental anxiety on who you could, or couldn’t trust. Let me tell you, my buddy Scott was the best liar of the three of us. I can only imagine if we were playing with the maximum number of 6 players.

Like I said above, this is a great game if you want to play a game while waiting on food or drinks. Coup will help you get your poker face trained up, and your bluffing skills sharpened.

If you’d like to see Coup played before trying it out, I highly recommend watching Wil Wheatons YouTube show, TableTop. (Which is the main influence of this blog.)

Seriously, find a copy of this game on Amazon, or any sort of game/hobby shop, and test out how manipulative you can be with your friends.

 

 

Welcome to Tablegames

Welcome to TableGames! My name’s Matt, and each week, my friends and I are going to gather around the table and play some games. Afterwards I’ll be writing about our experiences playing these games.

We aren’t going to be playing table top games like, Monopoly or Risk (well maybe Risk Legacy.) We will be playing games that some of you probably have never even heard of. Games like Smash Up, Ticket to Ride, and Pandemic. There are hundreds of table top games out there, and we are only going to be hitting a small fraction of them.

Hopefully this blog inspires some new gamers out there. To gather with your friends, and play some games that don’t involve a t.v. and controllers. Don’t worry, not all of these posts are going to be word for word descriptions of the games. I’ll be posting some videos every now and then of some eventful game moments.

So thanks for checking this blog out, and once again, welcome to TableGames.

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