Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Easier to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Light strategy
More strategic control
How it plays
How does it play?
Give one-word alibis for pairs of innocent supervillains, then combine everyone’s clues to expose the only suspect left.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Cooperative Game
Players coordinate their actions toward a shared objective and win or lose together.
Deduction
Combine clues and exclusions to identify hidden information.
Roles with Asymmetric Information
Use Roles with Asymmetric Information as a recurring structure for player decisions and resolution.
Read the full game description
Alibis is a cooperative word-association mystery built around a delightfully tight information puzzle. A lineup of colourful supervillains appears on the table, while each player secretly learns that two suspects are innocent. Everyone writes a single-word clue that connects their pair without accidentally implicating somebody else’s characters. The group then reveals the clues, uses dry-erase deduction boards to trace the overlapping associations, and tries to identify the one villain nobody can clear. Correct deductions remove heat and let the team chase a better score across successive cases. The rules fit into minutes, but the pressure of finding a clue that is precise, useful, and safely distinct gives the game its sharp party-game tension.
