Designed by Ryan Kinsman                             Voight-kampff                            Art by Chiharu Kinsman

kinsmangames@gmail.com Copyright Chiharu Kinsman
2 players
(see action variant for 2-6 players)

One player is a detective whose job is to find replicants – synthetics posing as humans –
and execute them. The detective interviews a subject – the other player. The subject is
either a replicant or human, at random. Detectives ask questions to determine the identity
of the subject. Human subjects must answer honestly; reps must lie.
The round is usually decided by one of the players shooting the other.
This is not called execution.
It is called retirement.

Components

Toy guns, one for each

Two double-sided player. If you don't have any, Some tokens to keep score.
Subject ID cards. One use bananas or some other Not provided.
replicant and one human. substitute. Not provided.

Six double-sided detective ID Detective questions. Provided in a list form at the end of
cards for the action variant. this document, in a separate PDF as printable cards, or
Three replicant and three separately as images you can view on your smartphone.
human cards.

How to play a round:

1. The subject takes one identity card at random to determine if they are a replicant or
human. Only the subject looks at the card.

2. A gun is placed on the table in front of each player. Guns may not be touched until you
are ready to shoot. Players may not fake going for their gun with sudden movements.
3. The detective takes the top card and asks the question written on it to the subject.
Humans must answer honestly, replicants must lie. No single word responses - you must
explain the reasons for your answer.

4. At any time during the round, a detective may either dismiss the subject if they think
they are human (“You may go.”), or pick up their gun and shoot the subject if they think
they are a replicant.

6. Replicant subjects may shoot detectives at anytime. If both players shoot, the player
who shot first wins the shootout. Be quick on the draw.

7. Human subjects may not use their gun.

8. Detectives can ask a maximum of three questions per round. The round is not finished
until either a dismissal or a shooting.

9. After a dismissal or a shooting, the subject reveals their card and scoring takes place:

Subject was a REPLICANT Subject was HUMAN

+1 -1

Detective shot subject Detective gains one point. Detective loses one point.
Negative scores are possible.

You may go.

+1 +1

Detective dismissed subject Subject gains one point. Detective gains one point.

DRAW GAME OVER

Subject shot detective No points are gained or lost Cheater! Human subjects
for either player. may not use their gun.

10. After scoring, the players switch roles, and a new round begins. Recommended game
length is six rounds. After six rounds, the player who has the most points is the winner.
 aCtion variant
2-6 players
All the detectives Are gathered round the chief’s place for a few drinks after another hard
week. We’re through our first bottle of Tsing-tao when someone suggests we put the chief
on the machine for a few laughs. We fire it up. It stops being funny when the needle starts
pointing in the wrong direction and keeps on going. The chief takes one look at our faces,
then reaches for his gun. I beat him to it. Looks like we need a new chief.
But first we need to figure out if any more synthetics have infiltrated our ranks. We pour
out more Tsing-tao and set up the machines to test all of us, all at once …

All players are detectives, but some may secretly be replicants who have infiltrated the
force. Players take turns asking each other hypothetical questions to determine each
other’s identity. Humans must answer honestly; replicants must lie.
The round will be decided in a bloody shootout.

How to play a round:

1. Everyone takes a detective identity card at random to determine if they are a rep or
human. Only they look at the card.

2. A gun is placed on the table in front of each player. If you don’t have toy guns, use a
banana or some other prop. Guns may not be touched until you are ready to shoot. Players
may not fake going for their gun with sudden movements.

3. The first detective takes the top card and asks the question written on it to a player of
their choice. Humans must answer honestly, replicants must lie. No single word responses
- you must explain the reasons for your answer. Each detective can ask a maximum of
three questions per round.

5. At any time during the round, a detective may pick up their gun and shoot one of the
other detectives. Be cautious, this may indicate your own identity to other players.
Multiple shootings can and will occur. After you shoot, you cannot shoot again until another
question has been asked. Dead players cannot shoot, even if they shoot just a fraction of a
second after they were shot.

6. The round ends when only one player remains, or when all the surviving players agree
that they are the same faction with a handshake. Cards are revealed and scoring happens:

Shot someone of an opposite faction +1 point

Shot someone on the same faction -1 point

Survived the round +1 point

Survived with a member of the opposite faction -1 point

At the end of three rounds the player with the highest score is the winner.
 DETECTIVE QUESTIONS
The following questions were designed for family / close friends. It may be too difficult to detect

lies with new friends or people you just met. To lie to a hypothetical question, just pick the

response that you prefer less. These questions are also available to print as individual cards that

may be shuffled, if you really want to cut out 50+ cards. Check online for that PDF.

1. You order something you’ve wanted for ages online, but are in the shower when it comes. Do
you answer the door in a towel or just accept that you’ll get the item tomorrow?

2. You get on a bus, and head for the first empty seat. You spot who you'll be sitting next to, and it’s
someone you met briefly years ago, but you can't remember their name. Do you sit down next to
them or go to a seat further in the back?

3. You’re a documentary filmmaker recording a neighbor’s elementary school age child for a piece
about bullying. You record him being bullied. Afterwards, he begs you not to use the footage. Do
you use it?

4. You’re 16. You’re late for school. You arrive to find your homeroom locked and empty, and in a
flash you realize that you have accidentally come to school on Saturday.
Come Monday, do you tell your school friends about it?

5. You get on the train, hobbling on with your crutches from your broken leg. There are no seats
free to sit on. A pregnant woman gets up and offers you her seat. Do you sit down?

6. You’re trying to enjoy a nice meal at a restaurant, but the next table’s kids keep running around
behind your chairs playing laser soldiers with their own brand of sound effects. Finally you can't
take it anymore. Do you say something to the kids or the parents?

7. You lose your job. The money runs out, and you lose your place as well. Both your parents and
one of your siblings tell you that you can stay with them. Who do you choose to stay with?

8. Your bus is 10 minutes late, which means you will miss your train and be late for a job interview.
As you finally step onto the bus, do you complain to the driver?

9. You get lost on a camping trip, and wander the woods for seven days with your dog. There’s
plenty of water around but you haven’t had anything to eat. Do you eat your dog?
10. You work in an airport, and you’re just finishing a long double shift. As you walk back to the
staff room to clock out, you come across a lost and crying child. Your airport has a policy that the
first staff member to make contact in these cases must remain with the child until the guardians are
found. Do you ignore the child, leaving the problem for another staff member?

11. Your child is doing a homework problem when you notice they've made a mistake. Do you point
it out and explain, or wait for them to check the answers and figure it out on their own?

12. You see the same person on the train everyday. They get off same station as you, but today
they are asleep as the train pulls in to your destination. Do you wake them?

13. You are watching old home movies with your now grown children when you realize you
recorded over this next part years ago … with a video of you and your spouse having sex. You stop
the movie but your children ask why. Do you tell the truth or make up some lies?

14. In a bad part of town, a man grabs your wallet or purse. He sticks a gun in your face. “I got your
ID now, your name, your address. You lost your wallet, understand? Tell the cops nothing.”
Afterwards, do you tell the cops?

15. Your mother confesses that your father is not your biological father. She tells you that your real
father was a traveling tobacco salesman named Henry Gibson, who she met only once.
Do you seek him out?

16. The FBI arrests you for computer hacking. You are innocent, but the jury finds you guilty. The
judge lets you go free but if you are ever caught using a computer again, you will have to spend
two months in prison. Do you risk using computers?

17. You drop a piece of toast on your kitchen floor, and by some miracle it lands buttered side up.
You pick it up. Do you eat it?

18. Your five year old dog has cancer. The vet says it can be treated, but it will cost three months
income. Do you spend the money?

19. You are offered a job that’s a huge step up for you, but you will have to relocate to a different
country. Do you take it?

21. You are standing on a crowded train, and it will be five minutes until the next station. You
suddenly sneeze. When you open your eyes again, you spot something on the back of the man in
front of you. A slimy green blob clings to the man’s suit jacket.
No one else has noticed. Do you tell him?
22. You’re late for your sister’s wedding. She’ll never forgive you. You see an old lady at a taxi
stand about to get in one. You ask if you can take it instead, but she doesn’t speak English.
You could push past her and take it. Do you?

23. Your best friend asks you for a large sum of money to cover a gambling debt. It’s the second
time they’ve done this. Do you give them the money?

24. Scientists invent a device that prolongs your life by taking years off someone else’s. You
manage to get a hold of the only working prototype before the entire project is scrapped. No one
knows you have it.
Do you use it?

25. A sadistic billionaire wants to watch you cut off one of your own fingers. She offers you a year’s
salary for performing the task. She will also pay all your medical expenses.
Do you do it?

26. You’re in line in a bank waiting to make a deposit. Masked gunmen burst through the doors and
demand everyone hand over their valuables. On your finger is a ring of little value, but it was made
especially for you by your late grandfather as a 20th birthday present.
Do you risk taking it off and hiding it?

27. You’re a defense lawyer in a murder trial. A win would look really great on your resume. The
accused admits to you that they did it, but insists on pleading not guilty and asks you to prepare a
defense.
Do you decide to half-arse the case, making it easier for the prosecution?

28. You’re a journalist working on a story when you come across information that two single
politicians from opposite parties are having a secret sexual relationship with each other. Do you run
the story?

29. You’re a 36 year old boxer nearing the end of your career. You’ve made it to the Olympic gold
medal finals for the first time ever, but you took a bad blow to the head during your last match. The
medical scans are not good, and the doctors tell you that if you get knocked out in tomorrow’s final,
there’s a 50/50 chance you’ll never get up again.
Do you box in the final?

30. Looking through your old photos, you see a photo of yourself in a place you’ve never been to,
with a person you’ve never seen before.
Do you investigate it further, or just assume you’ve forgotten about it and move on?
31. You’re an elementary school teacher. You spot the class bully and the class runt in a secluded
part of the schoolyard. The bully starts pushing the runt around again, but this time, the runt
punches the bully, and the shocked bully walks away crying.
You suspect neither of them will tell anyone about this. Do you take action, or pretend you didn’t
see anything?

32. You’re in a Chinese restaurant for a group function. The staff brings a selection of live shrimp
over in a glass container, then proceeds to pour boiling tea over the creatures. They writhe in
agony for a good 20 seconds, then die and are slowly cooked over the next few minutes.
Do you eat one?

33. You’re an elderly man attending your gay son’s engagement party. You’re introduced to his
partner’s parents for the first time, except you’ve already met the mother – you had a secret affair
with her some 25 years ago. Talking in private, she confesses that her son is actually yours too …
making the engaged couple half-brothers.
Do you tell them or keep it a secret?

34. Twenty years in the future, coffee stops growing and the world runs out of it. You own a
supermarket, and find a long forgotten crate of it in the back on the storeroom.
You could sell it for a month’s salary, or keep for yourself and enjoy it with friends and family. Which
do you do?

35. You’re alone late at night in your apartment, in your ensuite toilet - a tiny room with a door but
no windows. You hear a kitchen window being smashed and two people entering through it. You
left your phone in your bedroom.
Do you lock the door and stay here, or leave the bathroom?

36. You’re shopping in the supermarket. Looking at laundry products, you notice someone in the
same aisle secretly take something out of your cart and place it in theirs. There’s plenty of that item
on the shelf, and neither of you has paid yet.
Do you say something, or just grab another one from the shelf and be done with it?

37. At work at a busy retail store, your boss asks you to mark the price on some new merchandise
that just came in. The boss asks you to mark the product as 50% off with an inflated "before" price,
but you've never sold it before. You know the practice is illegal.
Do you do as your boss asks?

38. You've been dating a new person for about a month and a half. They bake some cookies for
you. You eat one, and it's terrible. They ask if you want another one.
Do you say yes or no?
39. Against the wishes of upper management, your new boss hires you - someone with little
experience in the position. They spend the time to train you well. One day the boss is fired. They
decide to start their own company and beg you to be its first employee.
Will you join?

40. You're with a coworker when you see a mosquito land on their face. By the time you explain,
they've been bitten and an itchy red lump appears.
"Next time just kill it," they say. "Slap me in the face if you have to. I hate mosquito bites."
A few weeks later, a mosquito lands on their face. Do you do as they requested?

41. Transferring at an airport, you open your carry on and find a large plastic bag full of what can
only be illegal drugs. They're not yours, someone must have planted them in your bag.
Do you report it to the authorities or decide to dispose of the drugs in an airport bathroom?

42. In your apartment complex's communal courtyard, one of your our neighbours is shouting at
their spouse again ... only this time it turns violent. You call the police.
Do you intervene before the police arrive?

43. Your friend has a cold. While you’re hanging out, they are eating some chips by hand from a
bag. They offer you some. Do you eat some?

44. In a time before mobile phones, the only outside connection you have is your house’s landline.
You live with your family. The phone rings. Are you the first to answer it?

45. You wake up, and see that you have two emails. One is from your best friend asking you to
have a coffee somewhere. The other is from another friend who is going out with lots of other
people and wants you to come along.
Which invite do you accept?

46. You have a routine meeting at work where you’ll have to describe your activities this week. Do
you prepare something or just wing it?

47. At a bar, you run into that cute person who works at the library. You chat them up and when you
ask, they give you their number. You call next week, and it’s a wrong number. At the library, do you
ask them what happened or leave it alone?

48. One of your friends falls asleep in a plastic chair at a garden party. Someone puts a large bowl
of water in their lap and is about to startle them. Do you stop them?

49. Taking the trash out, you spot a nice new looking jacket in the dumpster. It should clean up
nicely after a dry cleaning. Do you take it?
50. You bump into a stranger in the street. It’s both your fault but they look offended and slap you.
They’re the same gender and build as you. Do you slap them back?

51. Alone on a lazy Sunday night, you realize the only thing in your kitchen is cereal. Do you eat it
for dinner?

52. Camping with friends, you go off to do a number two. Digging a small hole, you find a year’s
salary buried in a plastic bag. Do you tell your friends about it?

53. Your best friend from school made it big, while your own career is stuck at entry level. They
always want to go out to fancy places, and when you say you can't afford it, they offer to pay. Do
you accept their offers?

54. On vacation with friends, you notice your hotel has a nice easterly view. You decide to watch
the sunrise. Do you want to stay up all night or get up early?

55. You’re the lone police officer monitoring traffic for speeding. You catch someone and pull them
over. It’s your spouse. Do you write them up?