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Anyone here played the resistance? That is a lot of fun - simple dynamics, but playing of f each other makes it a blast.
I've only played it once, but it's one of my favorite all-time tabletop stories. Basically, at the end of the game, my brother had "solved" the current situation and knew that the guy in charge was a traitor setting us up for a failed mission. He had solved it logically, not intuitively - he could prove it. However, I was a traitor, too, and I basically argued with him and kind of laughed a bit and folks ended up voting with me. And then they lost. We still talk about it two years later!
If you like that kind of game, there's a kickstarter from the designer of Cards Against Humanity for a new game in that genre called Secret Hitler. There's only about six days left in the campaign. There are some good Let's Plays up on YouTube of people playing the game. I've watched one with one of the designers teaching a group to play, and another of Patrick Rothfuss (the fantasy writer) playing it at work. The former game, with seven players, took about half an hour. The latter took a full hour, but it has a lot of interesting deduction and a fantastic ending.
When you watch these Let's Plays, you can see from the beginning who the traitors are, but I chose not to watch those parts so I could try and puzzle it out myself. I thought that really added to the experience.