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The Unreliable Museum

Bluffing for a crowd

4–8 players20–30 minCompetitiveVery light

Every label is a claim. Tonight, most of them are yours.

PlayPlayable

Ready to play now.

A demonstration of The Unreliable Museum, played out by the computer from a fixed deal.

The Unreliable Museum — playing itself

Ways to play

  • Together, in the same room

    4–8 players. One device goes round the table, or everybody plays off the same screen.

    Play in the same room

  • Online, at a table

    A room code, joinable from anywhere. Pause tonight and pick it up next week from your device.

    Play online

About

You are the guide. The collection is real, your explanations are not, and the group has to work out which of tonight’s exhibits you invented on the walk over.

How it feels

  • Performing
  • Laughing at the wrong moment
  • Confidently wrong

What the design is for

  • You do the talking

    The game hands you three labels and a dry catalogue line under two of them. Everything else you say is yours.

  • Scores for being believed

    Not for being right. A guide is paid by how confidently the room got it wrong.

  • Say how sure you are

    Right and certain is worth three. Wrong and certain hands the guide three. That is the whole game.

  • The collection is never the same twice

    Labels are assembled from a grammar rather than drawn from a list, so a second evening is not the same jokes.

  • No computer opponent, on purpose

    The content of this game is a person talking. A machine cannot do it, so it is not offered.

Best at
6
Kind
Party
Table
Competitive
Studio
Board.game

Achievements

0 of 5 earned

  • Curator

    Win an evening at The Unreliable Museum.

  • Nobody Asked a Single Question

    Guide a room in which not one visitor found the invention.

  • The Only One Looking

    Find an invention that everybody else missed.

  • Never Confidently Wrong

    Win without once being certain about the wrong label.

  • Unfoolable

    Win having found every invention shown to you.

Key art

Concept key art — Board.game art system

The Unreliable Museum — key still
The Unreliable Museum — key cover
The Unreliable Museum — key backdrop

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