Guides
Everything about
word assassins.
The rules, the words, the strategy, and how to host it for four friends or four hundred wedding guests; written by the people who run the game.
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The rules
7 min
How to play Word Assassins
The complete word assassins rules: setup, targets, secret words, what counts as a kill, and how a game actually ends, with or without an app.
Read the guideWords
6 min
The best words for Word Assassins
What makes a word deadly, what makes one useless, and word lists that actually work; all drawn from the packs behind thousands of real games.
Read the guideHosting
8 min
How to run Word Assassins at a wedding
A step-by-step host guide for playing word assassins with a whole wedding: timing, words that fit the room, and putting the game on the big screen.
Read the guideStrategy
7 min
Word Assassins strategy: how to actually win
Steering conversations, hiding your word, reading your hunter, and the mistakes that get people eliminated in the first hour.
Read the guideHosting
6 min
Word Assassins for team building (that people actually like)
How to run a multi-day word assassins game across an office, a retreat, or a season: the setup, the words, and the rules that keep it fun.
Read the guideComparison
8 min
The best social deduction games to play in person
Nine social deduction games for a room full of friends — what each one is actually good at, how many people it needs, and which ones run without anyone staring at a screen.
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