WEREWOLVES OF MILLER’S HOLLOW

Duration: 30 min
Number of players: 8-18 player/s
Materials/ Tools needed: Set of game
Publisher: Lui-meme
Language: All
Links:
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/25821/werewolves-millers-hollow

A game that takes place in a small village which is haunted by werewolves.

Short description/ Goal of the game:

A game that takes place in a small village which is haunted by werewolves. Each player is secretly assigned a role – Werewolf, Ordinary Townsfolk, or special character such as The Sheriff, The Hunter, the Witch, the Little Girl, The Fortune Teller and so on… There is also a Moderator player who controls the flow of the game. 

The game alternates between night and day phases. At night, the Werewolves secretly choose a Villager to kill. During the day, the Villager who was killed is revealed and is out of the game. The remaining Villagers (normal and special villagers alike) then deliberate and vote on a player they suspect is a Werewolf, helped (or hindered) by the clues the special characters add to the general deliberation. 

The chosen player is “lynched”, reveals his/her role and is out of the game. Werewolf is a social game that requires no equipment to play, and can accommodate almost any large group of players.

Educational value/ Learning Objectives:

  • Learn about communication and team work

Recommendations for use: 

  • To improve communication
  • To talk about different ways of understand politics
  • For teambuilding

Tips and Tricks for Facilitators 

How to adapt game for different groups, topics, occasions/needs

  • Add more challenging characters, remove the extra characters

Feedback questions

  • What have you learned by playing this game?
  • What have you learned about yourself?
  • What were the key elements in the game in order to succeed?
  • What skills can you improve while playing this game?

Further discussion topics

  • How could the game be adapted to another topic?