White Lotus Hotel
白莲花大饭店
There has been a death at the hotel and everyone is a suspect. Tell the story together and see who turns out to be the Black Lotus.
- 3–6 players
- about 60 min
- Learn it in a minute
- Co-op
- Party
- Role-playing
- Mystery & spies
- Silly
The goal
This is a game of telling a story together, with no winner in the usual sense: between you, make up and act out how a death at the hotel came about.
How it plays
- 1Everyone first invents a character and says what brings them to the hotel.
- 2Draw an opening card and describe the scene of the death.
- 3On your turn draw two plot clues: use one to tell part of your own story, and the other to tell part of another player's, or of the victim's.
- 4From what is told, give yourself and the others suspicion or innocence. If you doubt someone's story or their numbers, roll the dice for a lie test.
- 5Along the way you can complete plot tasks in the telling, which add to your innocence.
How you win
When the victim has been given 8 plot clues, add up: the most suspicion makes you the Black Lotus, the most innocence the White Lotus. The Black Lotus tells how the death happened, the White Lotus draws a finale, and the two act it out together.
First time?
- Don't hold back; the bolder the story, the better the game.
- When you pin a clue on someone, leave them something to pick up and run with.