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Nine Knives Card Game

Nine Knives Card Game

2025

2 - 9 players
5 - 30 min

From BoardGameGeek

Nine Knives Card Game is an elimination-style party game, that plunges players into the role of peculiar suspects who are all competing against one another to be the last person standing. Through strategic card play, players navigate a minefield of deduction and risk by using special action cards and drafting play now cards that can either boost or diminish your chances for survival to win. It's a battle of wits and luck, where only the most cunning (and perhaps the luckiest) will survive. The story of Knives is intentionally vague, creating a sense of playful paranoia in a room full of suspects. The objective isn't to solve a specific crime per se, but rather to be the last one holding onto any evidentiary weapons cards to strengthen your chances for survival. Players are thrown into a situation where they must deduce who is holding the most deadly cards, and avoid being the one who is eliminated. The 'story' unfolds through the players' actions and deductions, creating emergent narratives each round. Players start the game with 2 cards, and choose whether to play a card from their hand OR draw a card from the deck each turn. The objective of the game is to be the only remaining player in the game. Players remain in the game by having cards in their hand. Players are eliminated from the game once they have 0 cards in their hand. To win the game you must be the only person with cards in your hand at the end of the game. -description from the designer

Nine Knives Card Game

Which Nine Knives Card Game video should I watch?

Nine Knives Card Game has 4 videos from 2 creators: 3 how-to-play guides and 1 other video. They date from 2024 to March 2026.

If you like it, try Got Five!, Star Wars: Jabba's Palace – A Love Letter Game, Love Letter or Innovation, which share several of its mechanics.

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The party game where you backstab your friends! #partygames #gamenight #sponsoredHow to play0:49

The party game where you backstab your friends! #partygames #gamenight #sponsored

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THE RULES | Nine Knives Card Game (Original Cut)How to play2:24

THE RULES | Nine Knives Card Game (Original Cut)

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NINE KNIVES – How to PlayHow to play4:58

NINE KNIVES – How to Play

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Nine Knives Card Game Kickstarter – Strategize. Sabotage. SURVIVE!1:10

Nine Knives Card Game Kickstarter – Strategize. Sabotage. SURVIVE!

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Star Wars: Jabba's Palace – A Love Letter Game

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Love Letter

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Innovation

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About Nine Knives Card Game

From BoardGameGeek:

Nine Knives Card Game is an elimination-style party game, that plunges players into the role of peculiar suspects who are all competing against one another to be the last person standing. Through strategic card play, players navigate a minefield of deduction and risk by using special action cards and drafting play now cards that can either boost or diminish your chances for survival to win. It's a battle of wits and luck, where only the most cunning (and perhaps the luckiest) will survive. The story of Knives is intentionally vague, creating a sense of playful paranoia in a room full of suspects. The objective isn't to solve a specific crime per se, but rather to be the last one holding onto any evidentiary weapons cards to strengthen your chances for survival. Players are thrown into a situation where they must deduce who is holding the most deadly cards, and avoid being the one who is eliminated. The 'story' unfolds through the players' actions and deductions, creating emergent narratives each round. Players start the game with 2 cards, and choose whether to play a card from their hand OR draw a card from the deck each turn. The objective of the game is to be the only remaining player in the game. Players remain in the game by having cards in their hand. Players are eliminated from the game once they have 0 cards in their hand. To win the game you must be the only person with cards in your hand at the end of the game. -description from the designer

Publisher

Self-published

Categories

Card GameMurder / MysteryParty Game

Mechanics

Action SelectionCard-DrivenDeductionHand Management
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