10' to Kill

A ten-minute deduction duel where you hide your hitman among sixteen animals and hunt the others'.

Designer: Benoit Bannier
Published by: Arclight Games
Editions by: Rebel Sp. z o.o., La Boîte de Jeu, funbot, Zacatrus, Dude Games

10' to Kill is a short deduction game that lives on suspicion. Sixteen animal characters wander a board, and each player secretly embodies one of them. You also hold three secret targets you must eliminate without being found out. On your turn you take two actions: move any character anywhere, eliminate a character in one of several ways, or ask the police for an identity check. The twist is that nobody announces who got eliminated or by whom, so everyone is guessing. Your job is to blend your own hitman into a crowd of suspects while working out who the others really are. Ten minutes is short, but with eyes on you it can feel very long.

Sixteen characters, one is secretly youThree secret targets per playerNobody says who eliminated whom

Who it's for

You like bluffing and deduction in a small, fast package, and you want a short game that can go twice in a row.

Not for you if…

You dislike being eliminated or want a longer game. Being found out ends your run early.

Vibe's take

Tense and sly. You try to look innocent while you quietly shuffle suspects, and every elimination leaves a trail of questions instead of answers.