Smoke and Mirrors: Who Lies?

Welcome to the back room of the card salon. Twelve players sit down, and each one wears a card: hearts, diamonds, spades or clubs. You can see every card at the table except your own. The others see yours just fine. The only way to learn what you are wearing is to ask. The problem: someone at this table is lying on purpose. Every round you get 60 seconds of one-to-one chat, built from ready-made sentences only, no free text. Then you must declare your own suit. Declare it right and you live. Declare it wrong, or say nothing, and you are out. The player who just told you "hearts" might be a friend. Or the Gambler. The roles at the table: • Regular (3 seats): Asks around, compares answers, marks the suspect. Once per game, can secretly tip off the Croupier about a suspect. • Croupier: Investigates one player per round: guilty or innocent. Can put someone in custody three times. • Bouncer: Has one bullet. Shoot an innocent and you die of remorse. • Waiter: Serves a trusted player a look at their own card. • Boss: Watches one player and protects another every round: catches wrong cards, and the protected player can't be silenced; their mark counts as three votes. • Gambler: The villain. Lies to push the table into wrong declarations. • Cheat: The Gambler's partner. Dazzles a victim so they see every card wrong, and swaps two cards once. • Hitman: The evil team's gun. Plants fake evidence and fires once from round 3. • Drunk: Neutral. Wins if shot or executed by the table. Hiccup: for one round everyone sees your card as its twin; declare the twin of what you're told. • Bookie: Neutral. Bets on a side by the end of round 3 and wins with it. Every round, a death bet on who dies (+10); from round 2, a big bet on who the Gambler is (+15). Everyone carries a public "I think this one is the Gambler" mark, and you can move it any time. If more than half of the living players mark the same person at the end of a round, that person is executed. Dead players' roles are revealed, so every mistake leaves a clue for the next round. Aces turn up the heat: see my card, investigate, custody, silence, fake evidence, clean record, dazzle, swap, on the house, watch, protect, tip-off, hiccup, death bet, big bet, shoot. Ten rounds to find the Gambler before the table runs empty. Ways to play: • Quick play: A table is ready within seconds, any time of day. • Leagues: Climb from Bronze to Royal; a new season every month. • Leaderboard: Daily, weekly, season and all-time rankings. • Profile: Climb from Rookie to Table Shark, Master, Legend and Immortal with your wins, and collect achievements. • 11 languages, free to play, one-handed portrait play. You cannot see your card. But you can see their faces. Take a seat.

First release. At a table of 12, everyone sees your card except you. Find the Gambler!