The quick version
Give each player six suitable secret missions. During the next hour, try to fulfill them through ordinary conversation without announcing the task first. Reveal a mission immediately after completing it. A target who identifies the mission before completing the action defeats that attempt. First to three successes wins; at one hour, most successes wins, with ties shared.
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Keep the game within the gathering
Use six missions per person from the Indoors edition. Before dealing, remove any card involving unwanted subjects, food tampering, personal possessions, leaving the gathering or contacting somebody outside the game. Keep tasks conversational and easy to decline. Read your own missions privately and replace any you cannot comfortably attempt before the clock starts.
Choose a one-hour finish time and a visible place to keep completed cards. Everyone is playing voluntarily; ordinary requests remain optional. Pick a neutral phrase such as “outside the game” for genuine practical information. Never use that phrase to advance a mission. This boundary and the one-hour limit are house hosting rules.
Make your move, then show the card
Carry on with the gathering while attempting your six missions. A success requires the exact condition printed on the card, involving another player who did not recognize it beforehand. Immediately show the target the completed card and leave it face up as one point. Do not count an ambiguous action retrospectively.
For this house challenge rule, a target may identify the suspected requested action before doing it. If that correctly describes your mission, show the card and retire it unsuccessfully; do not draw a replacement. A vague “everything is a mission” does not defeat a task. If an honest disagreement remains, retire that card without a point and continue the gathering.
The first player to reveal three successful missions wins immediately. If nobody reaches three by the agreed hour, compare successful cards and share any tied lead. Reveal uncompleted missions for the final conversation. This ends the game; no missions continue afterward.
Let ordinary conversation breathe
A good attempt gives the other person an amusing realization. Repeated pressure after a refusal does not improve the game. Spread attempts across the group instead of concentrating on one person. If someone leaves early, their unfinished missions end and their existing successes remain on the final scoreboard.
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Ideas & Twists
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Don’t Get Got · See main rules
House suggestionOne mission at a time
Read only the top card of your six-card packet. After it succeeds or is defeated, read the next. The same three-success goal and one-hour finish apply. Do not inspect later missions to combine them.
Don’t Get Got · See main rules
House suggestionDifferent partners
Your three scoring successes must involve three different players. Use this only with at least four people. A completed task involving a repeated target is revealed and retired but scores nothing.
Don’t Get Got · See main rules
House suggestionMidpoint refresh
At 30 minutes, allow each player to trade one unfinished mission for a fresh suitable mission, unseen by others. Retired failures cannot be traded. Keep the original ending and three-success target.
Don’t Get Got · See main rules
House suggestionShort visit
Play for 30 minutes and reduce the winning target to two missions. Deal six as usual. At the bell compare successes, sharing ties. Announce both changes before anyone reads their cards.
About this guide
The publisher specifies six missions and first to three. This is an explicit house session with an hour limit, challenge resolution, clean mission selection and variations; it does not claim to reproduce every edition’s mission-specific rules.
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