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Antidote (PNP+ edition)

IT BREAKS You’ve always known your job working with deadly toxins had its risks, but you never expected this! While working on some VIP research in the lab one day with your team of scientists, you suddenly hear a sound you were dreading to hear, the loud CRACK of a massive glass container shattering in the middle of the room. Never mind the loss of research! You all know what that container held…a deadly airborne toxin expected to painfully kill everyone in lab in approximately 15-30 minutes.

Don’t panic…yet. There’s an antidote! Your team has been working on a number of ingestible anti-toxins, one of which might cure you all, but none of you know yet which formula will act as a cure. True to the nature of the double-blind study, no one scientist has complete knowledge of the merits of any of the formulas to serve as a reliable antidote.

Now, in a race against time and a battle of wits you must work with the other researchers to deduce the correct antidote before the deadly gas takes its lethal effect, but as you begin to solve this heart-pounding puzzle a sinister question takes root in your mind: Are the other scientists giving you accurate information or are they leading you astray? There may not be enough of the antidote to go around…perhaps you should keep some information to yourself as well…

Antidote is a game about learning which information you can rely on, and who you can trust. The answer to the puzzle is discernible if you are observant, but you must pay close attention to the cards other players reveal, ask the right questions, listen to what the other players say, and occassionally steal the right cards for yourself. If your group works as a team it is possible that every player will survive, but you might quickly find that working as a team is the last thing on some players minds...

Cards use the PNP artwork, but I have added in the KS exclusive Placebo and ID cards which use different art style.

Special rules for 2 player game: For a 2 player game, set-up the game according to the three player set-up. Place all the cards from the third player’s “hand” face-down on the table to the side but arranged such that individual cards can be selected from their hand without confusing which card is which. You will be exchanging cards with this third “silent” player throughout the game. Make sure you establish which player is “to the right” and “to the left” of the “silent” player. Play the game as usual with the following exceptions:

(1) Whenever you choose to discard a card, only you and your opponent discard a card. The “silent” player takes no action.

(2) Whenever you choose to pass a card to the left or the right include the “silent” player as follows: If you must pass a card to your opponent, choose a card to pass as normal. If you must receive a card from the “silent” player, draw any one of the face-down cards from the “silent” player’s “hand.” If you must pass a card to the “silent” player, fill the spot in the “silent” player’s hand that was vacated when your opponent selected a card.

(3) You may not complete one to one trades with the “silent” player.

(4) If you use a Syringe Card to steal from the “silent” player, place the Syringe Card face-down in place of the card you stole.

(Note: The “silent” player will always have 10 cards and will not participate in the revealing of the antidote at game end.)