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Il y a six ou sept ans de cela, je me procurai, je ne sais plus bien dans quelles circonstances, un jeu de soci\u00e9t\u00e9 japonais, Warumono, un jeu de gangsters, ou plut\u00f4t de yakuzas. Le partage du butin ne s\u2019est pas tout \u00e0 fait pass\u00e9 comme pr\u00e9vu, quelques petits malins ayant voulu tout garder pour eux et refiler des faux billets \u00e0 leurs coll\u00e8gues. Dans la confusion g\u00e9n\u00e9rale, nul ne sait plus tr\u00e8s bien qui est parti avec le magot et qui n\u2019a a que de la fausse monnaie dans sa valise. Chacun des gangsters veut donc r\u00e9cup\u00e9rer les vrais billets avant de s\u2019enfuir \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9tranger, en bateau ou en avion. Les pions circulent donc en ville, l\u2019un se fait faire un passeport, l\u2019autre ach\u00e8te un billet d\u2019avion, et quand deux se croisent, ils s\u2019\u00e9changent, ou pas, leurs mallettes, ce qui rend le butin assez difficile \u00e0 suivre. Warumono est un excellent jeu familial, m\u00eame si son th\u00e8me ne l’est qu’\u00e0 demi, aux syst\u00e8mes tr\u00e8s originaux. Parmi ceux-ci, la r\u00e8gle d’\u00e9change de la mallette sous la table – un joueur prend sa propre mallette et celle d’un autre joueur et, sous la table, les \u00e9change, ou pas.<\/p>\n

D\u00e8s ma premi\u00e8re partie, je savais qu’un jour je r\u00e9utiliserai ce m\u00e9canisme dans un autre jeu, m\u00eame si je ne savais encore ni lequel, ni quand. La premi\u00e8re occasion se pr\u00e9senta lorsque, avec Herv\u00e9 Marly, nous tent\u00e2mes de faire un jeu de cartes sur les crop circles, dont tout ce dont je me souviens est qu’il ne tourna jamais vraiment bien. Quelques ann\u00e9es plus tard, il y eut un prototype avec une carte chat qu’il fallait retrouver, et qui s’appelait tant\u00f4t le chat du Cheshire, tant\u00f4t le chat de Schr\u00f6dinger.<\/p>\n

Lorsque j’abandonnai, dans un \u00e9tat tr\u00e8s impr\u00e9cis, le chat de Schrodinger, il me vint donc l’id\u00e9e de m\u00ealer des personnages \u00e0 la Citadelles avec le m\u00e9canisme d’\u00e9change de cartes de Warumono, pour obtenir un jeu minimaliste ne demandant qu’autant de cartes qu’il y a de joueurs. Apr\u00e8s tout, s’il y a bien des cartes quartiers dans Citadelles, c’est presque uniquement avec les personnages que l’on joue. Il y avait devait donc bien y avoir moyen de faire un jeu qui se joue avec juste une carte par joueur, et qui ne soit pas un autre remake des Loups Garous. Si les r\u00f4les, cach\u00e9s, passaient d’un joueur \u00e0 l’autre au point que l’on ne savait parfois plus bien qui l’on \u00e9tait, le th\u00e8me ne pouvait en \u00eatre que la mascarade, le carnaval de Venise. Cette troisi\u00e8me occasion fut donc la bonne.<\/p>\n

\u00c0 partir de l\u00e0, tout est all\u00e9 tr\u00e8s vite. La premi\u00e8re version de Mascarade n’avait que six personnages, roi, reine, \u00e9v\u00eaque, juge, voleur et espion, et les parties \u00e0 5 ou 6 joueurs s’av\u00e9r\u00e8rent tout de suite tr\u00e8s tendues. Pour des groupes de joueurs plus nombreux, j’ajoutais d’abord des paysans sans pouvoir particuliers, sortes de mistigris dont les joueurs essayaient de se d\u00e9barrasser puis, au fur et \u00e0 mesure des tests, il me vint quelques autres id\u00e9es, et d’autres personnages furent aussi sugg\u00e9r\u00e9s par des joueurs – la Sorci\u00e8re par Bruno Cathala, beaucoup par l’\u00e9quipe de Repos Prod apr\u00e8s qu’ils eurent d\u00e9cid\u00e9s de publier ce jeu. Les personnages devenant nombreux, il fallait des fiches d’aide de jeu, une carte tribunal pour y poser les amendes, et des pi\u00e8ces d’or de plus en plus nombreuses quand le jeu devenait praticable \u00e0 dix, puis douze. Ce que Mascarade perdait en \u00e9l\u00e9gance minimaliste, il le gagnait cependant en richesse et en vari\u00e9t\u00e9.<\/p>\n

L’id\u00e9e \u00e9tait dans l’air. Quelques mois apr\u00e8s que j’avais sign\u00e9 le contrat de Mascarade, et alors que nous \u00e9tions en train d’apporter au jeu ses derniers r\u00e9glages, des amis revinrent d’Essen avec, dans leurs cartons, deux jolis petits jeux de cartes, Coup et Love Letter, dans lesquels chaque joueur joue avec une main d’une ou deux cartes personnages et cherche souvent \u00e0 se faire passer pour qui il n’est pas. Je r\u00e9alisai m\u00eame que tous ces jeux avaient une sorte d’anc\u00eatre commun, auquel j’ai jou\u00e9 dans les ann\u00e9es quatre-vingt-dix, ou peut-\u00eatre m\u00eame quatre-vingt, mais auquel je n’avais absolument pas pens\u00e9 en concevant Mascarade, Hoax – l’imposteur. Hoax, le pr\u00e9curseur, a un peu vieilli. J’ai jou\u00e9 \u00e0 Love Letter, et ai ador\u00e9, mais c’est finalement tr\u00e8s diff\u00e9rent de Mascarade. Coup en est bien plus proche, mais je ne l’ai pas vraiment appr\u00e9ci\u00e9. Alors, lequel, de Love Letter, Coup et Mascarade deviendra un classique ? Ce sera \u00e0 vous d’en d\u00e9cider, et j’esp\u00e8re que ce sera Le mien. Mascarade a au moins deux avantages sur ses concurrents. Il se joue de 2 \u00e0 13 joueurs, m\u00eame si la r\u00e8gle pour 2 ou 3 joueurs, un peu bricol\u00e9e, ne s’adresse qu’\u00e0 ceux qui connaissent d\u00e9j\u00e0 bien les m\u00e9canismes du jeu. C’est aussi le seul des trois dans lequel non seulement on ne sait pas toujours qui sont les autres joueurs, mais on ne sait souvent m\u00eame pas qui l’on est – comme dans la vraie vie.<\/p>\n

Mascarade<\/strong><\/span>
\n Un jeu de Bruno Faidutti<\/span>
\nIllustr\u00e9 par Jeremy Masson
\n2 \u00e0 13 joueurs – <\/span>30 minutes<\/span>
\n Publi\u00e9 par Repos Production (2014) <\/span>
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Illustrations de Jeremy Masson
Graphics by Jeremy Masson<\/p><\/div>\n

I don’t remember how, six or seven years ago, i got a copy of Warumono, a Japanese gangster – or rather yakuza – game. A bank has been robbed, but the divying up of the loot ended in confusion when one of the robbers tried to leave with all the money. In the ensuing confusion, noone knows who left with the right case, the one with the banknotes, and who got an empty one. Each thief tries to get hold of the loot and to leave the country, by plane or boat. Players move their pawns in the city, occasionally bying a plane ticket or a fake passport, and when two thives meet, they swap – or not – their briefcases. It’s all mix-up and poker faces. Warumono is a very good and very original light game, even when the theme is not really family fare.<\/em><\/p>\n

After the first game, i already knew that, some day, I’ll use in some other game the system of the secret swapping of briefcases under the table. The first try, together with Herv\u00e9 Marly, was a card game about UFOs drawing crop circles – all I remember of it is that it didn’t work. A few years later, I had another prototype, with a cat card that had to be traced and found. It was called the Cheshire cat one day, the Schr\u00f6dinger cat the other, depending on its ambiguous status.<\/em><\/p>\n

I abandonned Schr\u00f6dinger’s cat in some undetermined state and soon had another idea – mix the Citadels characters and the Warumono swapping rule, in order to design a minimalistic but convoluted game played with just one card for each player. There are district cards in Citadels, but the game is really played mostly with the character cards. I wanted to go farther and design a game played with just one card for each player – and not one more werewolf variant. With roles being secretly swapped between players, the setting was obvious – masquerade, the Venice carnival.<\/em><\/p>\n

Things went really fast from here. The first Mascarade prototype had only 6 cards, King, Queen, Bishop, Judge, Thief and Spy, and the first five or six players games were very tense and challenging. For more players, I first added peon cards, with no specific powers, of which players had to get rid. During the first game sessions, many players suggested ideas for more characters. The first one was the witch, devised by Bruno Cathala. Later, the Repos Prod guys, after they decided to publish the game, added several other. With a dozen characters, players aids were becoming really necessary, as well as a tribunal card, and lots of money tokens. Mascarade was becoming less elegant and minimalistic, but it was also more fun and varied.<\/em><\/p>\n

The idea was in the air. A few months after I had signed the contract for Mascarade, and while I was busy selecting and fine tuning the characters, friends came back from Essen with two light card games, Coup and Love Letter, in which every player has a hand of one or two character cards and sometimes pretends to be who he is not. I also realized that all these games had a common ancestor, or at least precursor – Hoax. I have played it in the nineties, or may be even the late eighties, but I never thought of it when designing Mascarade. Hoax didn’t age that well. I’ve now played Love Letter, and love it, but it’s not that similar with Mascarade. I’ve played Coup, and didn’t really care for it, though I admit it’s more similar with my own design. So, which one, Love Letter, Coup or Mascarade, will become a classic ? Your choice, of course – but I bet on mine ! Mascarade has at least two things for it. It plays with 2 to 13 players, even when the two and three players rules are second thought ones, and should not be tried if you haven’t already mastered the standard many players game. Also, it’s the only game in which players not only don’t know who the other players are, but often don’t know for sure who they are – like in real life.<\/em><\/p>\n

Mascarade<\/strong><\/em><\/span>
\n A game by Bruno Faidutti<\/em><\/span>
\n Art by Jeremy Masson<\/em><\/span>
\n 2 to 13 players – 30 minutes<\/em><\/span>
\n Published by Repos Production (2013)<\/em><\/span>
\n Boardgamegeek<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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