Cheese Thief

Sleepy mice guard a cheese wheel, but one of you is only pretending to be asleep.

👥 4–8 players⏱ approx. 15 min🪄 Rules in 5 min8+

★ 5.9 · BGG #4,247

Who it's for

Casual groups wanting a quick, no-fuss deduction game and animal-theme fans who enjoy light bluffing.

Not for you if…

You want a deep, lengthy deduction experience, since this resolves in about ten fast, simple minutes.

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Vibe's take

sneaky, quick, suspenseful, light, social

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About this game

Cheese Thief casts you all as sleepy mice sharing a den, except one of you secretly plans to steal the cheese the moment everyone else nods off. Each round you roll a die under a cup and peek at your own private wake-up hour, no one else's business but yours. Catch another mouse with their eyes open at the wrong moment and you become their unwilling accomplice, tied to their fate for the rest of the game. When the thief's hour finally comes, they grab the cheese and hide it, and now it's up to the sleepyheads to figure out who among them was never really asleep. No moderator needed, no one gets kicked out, just ten quiet, suspicious minutes.

Secret wake-up hour per die rollNo moderator neededTen-minute deduction filler

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