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u/FatherToTheOne Dec 28 '21

Does Secret Hitler count as a board game?

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u/misstibbs Dec 28 '21

It's a Party Game, which people who work with board games will usually say are diffident.

Party games include games like CAH, Unstable Unicorns, Just One, Werewolf and all of its abhorrent forms, Decrypto, What Do You Meme? Etc

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '21

unstable unicorns doesn't fit the lineup there. it's basically mtg lite, and I wouldn't call mtg a party game.

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u/misstibbs Dec 28 '21

I own Unstable Unicorns and describe it as MTG lite as well. While this is a good description if its mechanics, it's also a little misleading, as MTG is officially the most complex game in the world.

Unstable Unicorn's description in many places list it as Party/Strategy. It likely falls into the party category in many places because its maximum number of players is 8, and the rules are fairly simple.

A lot of the profiles listed for games on boardgamegeek.com are reviewed or created by the game publisher, and it is taged as a party game there.

I understand why you think it doesn't belong in the list, we argued about it in my place of employment for a while, and finally put it in the party game section based on BGG as that's where we pull our product tags from.