NEWS!_Social Game

NEWS! Social Game

Set:

Each player takes a small token with a serial number

Game Play:

Players run 2 phases each round

1: Each player looks for one news on a mobile device/computer/newspaper that happened within a week, memorizing the general course of news

2: Each player describes the news of their choice in order of serial number, no dates or descriptions implying dates are allowed during the description. After all players have finished describing the news, the players discuss and try to order the news in chronological order.

Adding Mods

Headliner: If two players choose the same News, all player lose this round.

SPY!: One player will act as the officer and take identify cards equal to the number of remaining players and distribute them face down to each player, one player will be given a Spy identify card and that player will need to look for news that happened within the previous 1-6 months.

At the end of the description phase, the player playing as the OFFICER needs to try to figure out which player is the SPY, and the OFFICER can ask the player to describe the details, including the date of the event.

Story Mod: When playing the base game, players now need to make up appropriate cause-and-effect relationships for each news story in addition to sorting them chronologically. 

Ex: Player group orders their news as A-C-B, now they have to make up a story about what happens in A cause C, and what happens in C cause B.

Topic Mod: 

Each round specifies a category (Military, Politics, Entertainment), all players must find news in these categories.