Accuse!

Fun, lightening fast "deduction" (but perhaps mostly bluffing) game. Setup drags a little each time, but the gameplay is tight and it's hard not to love what it does with its size.

Clue distilled into a couple dozen cards and a 10 minute playtime. Feels reminiscent of Coup but with its own personality. My interest is certainly piqued.

Players deduce who, what and where while bluffing to obfuscate information for others. Brisk game play moves the action along nicely, incentivizing educated guesses for those willing to take risks. Good fun for a small group!

At first glance it looks like a deduction game, with the Clue(do)-style setup of a location, weapon and suspect removed from the deck and the rest of the cards dealt amongst the players. But really it's almost entirely bluffing - each turn you play a hand card face down, declaring what it is, and the others have the chance to challenge, with a penalty for the loser (no surprise this came from the designer of Coup!). It's very quick and a lot of fun -- Rikki Tahta and La Mame Games have an incredible hit-rate for me.