Description
You and your fellow dwarves are digging for gold in a maze of mining tunnels. But, beware! Some of the miners are saboteurs trying to foil your efforts and steal all your hard earned gold. To find the mother lode, you must overcome cave-ins, broken lanterns and busted pick-axes. In the end, the dwarf with the most gold nuggets wins.
From the manufacturer
Saboteur
A classic game of treasure and trickery.
Hide your identity and don’t trust anyone…
It’s Miners vs. Saboteurs in this race for the gold.
As you lay your cards and build a path, your friends are lurking ready to destroy your plans.
Build a path to the gold.
Work with the other Miners to find all the gold nuggets and win the game. But watch out for the Saboteurs who will change your path or destroy your supplies.
Join the growing ranks of Saboteur fans.
Shut Up and Sit Down
“It’s one of the best simple games of bluffing and deception out there and if you like lying to your friends and wrecking everything they’ve been working towards in thirty or forty minutes, Shut Up & Sit Down recommends you start digging.”
RPGnet
“Saboteur is a light game of hidden roles, bluffing, and tile laying. It can be fairly random, but that seems like a good match for the length, and thus it’s quickly risen to the top of my list of fun and interesting fillers.”
Girl Geek Up North
“After playing Saboteur, it swiftly ranked as one of the best deception games I have ever played. ”
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Saboteur 2The expansion pack for the classic Saboteur card game. |
Saboteur: The DuelPlay alone or with a friend in this single or two-player version of Saboteur. |
Saboteur: The Lost MinesThe first board game in the Saboteur line. |
Saboteur: The Mother Lode Bonus PackAn exclusive. Includes Saboteur, Saboteur 2, and a secret collectors card. |
Kennedy –
Such a fun game and easy to learn! Great when playing with a large group and makes the perfect gift for that game lover in your life.
Seemann –
We play a lot of board games and card games (some of our current favourites are: Settlers of Catan, Coup, Dragonwood, Rat-a-Tat Cat, Ogre, Small World, Dead Men Tell No Tales, Betrayal at House on the Hill, Greedy Greedy Goblins, and Camel Cup — a.k.a. Camel Up). This is a fun little game that is easy for young children and fun for adults. In some ways it’s like Dead Men Tell No Tales and Betrayal — you “build” the map as you go — but it’s also a mixture of Coup/The Resistance/One Night Ultimate Werewolf because you have two opposing groups with opposing goals trying to achieve their goals without the other group knowing who they are (because the other group can torpedo you pretty nicely if they figure out that you’re not on their team).The map is pretty cute with little funny things on many of the cards that make it up. The artistry is nice. The gameplay is pretty straightforward and games don’t _typically_ take much over 20 minutes, which means that you can have a nice, quick, fun game without little kids getting bored. Since the map is built as you go and roles are random, the replay value is very much there and it doesn’t get old, assuming no one has a “tell”, but rotating players out can fix that anyway. A good, quick family game that lets adults play something akin to the more complex, hardcore games (e.g. Coup and The Resistance) with their children. It also scales well (in fact, the more the better) and is quick to teach people, so is a good “party” game for those who have someone coming over for the holidays or some such.Our youngest just turned 7 and she probably could have played it when she was 5 without any real problems — she certainly has none now.
Snow Elf –
We are big fans of board games of all sorts in my family, but in particular all sorts of strategy games. I saw this game of a special deal for $3 which awoke my curiousity. We ended up having a lot of fun playing this over the holidays with the family we were visiting. It’s easy to learn, and more so if one person has already familiarized themselves with the game, but we made a couple of insignificant mistakes the first time we played due to missing or misreading information from the instruction sheet. This game is quite fun with 4 players and even better with more. The deception aspect of the saboteur adds a lot of passion to the game, which reminded us of One Night a Werevolf. I don’t know if it was just us, but we spent upwards of 30 minutes per game round, so 1 1/2 hours per game to play three rounds as per the instructions. The game is just slightly bigger than a deck of cards, so it’s a great one to bring along on trips or to camp.
sleeper –
I bought this to bring camping, since it had a high player count and we would be tent camping with our family – all adults. We ended up breaking it out early during a family dinner, for a time filler.3 hours later, “they’re the SABOTEUR!!” is still ringing out. The mechanics are easy once you understand them. I taped two pieces of paper and made a “game board” — a template to show how many cards over the path needs to go to reach the middle treasure. It made things so much better and at the end I just fold it into the box. Also, we don’t let people “teach” the game. Once a card oes down its down. No changing because you think someone isn’t a saboteur and they just made a bad move.It’s one of the only games my father in law didn’t flip the table and walk away from. The game was loud for us – lots of accusations and pleas for help and thinking out loud – but ultimately fun in its simplicity. We still haven’t gone on our camping trip so I’m glad I have time to buy and bring the expansion!
YourCallCannotBeConnected –
This is a great game. It’ fun with 3 or 4 players, but gets more fun the more people you have, and it expands surprisingly well for the full 9 or 10 players. What’s really cool is that everyone basically pretends NOT to be the bad guy, or to be gaming up on the bad guy, and yet it’s really just a thin veil over dog-eat-dog gameplay. This is not a co-op game.There’s enough strategy involved to keep everyone engaged and to make you want to play it again, and the element of bluffing makes it really fun. It’s also pretty light hearted and un-stuffy. Sheriff Of Nottingham, while certainly a blast, seems somehow a little drier and slower than Saboteur.It’s not complicated, and there’s high probability (a shuffled deck), so avid gamers may either loath it from the start or bore themselves pretty easily, but for people who really just want a fun game that can keep the group engaged and interacting this is perfect.Be warned: If you end up being a Saboteur you can make enemies pretty quickly!
chocola –
This is good game for 3+ people. More you have you will have more fun. However rulebook was not clear about the rule. We searched for YouTube and each people played different/own way. ( I assume since rule book was not clear enough, people made own rules).Rule says you face action cards up and other people just hide as secret till they play them on others. If you have a map action card, you can see one of 3 cards of gold/coal which lay on a table. Rule just say you can peek. However some people tell either truth as a miner or fasle if you are Saboteur. (You will keep doubting others though.) If miner gets Gold, miner wins. Need Poker Face for this game!
Amazon Customer –
My kids are 6 and 8 and we enjoy this game. It is pretty simple and quick so they seem to like it, and the part about guessing the saboteur is fun for them as well.That being said neither of them fully grasp’s that being the saboteur (determined at random each game) is not necessarily a bad thing. They sometime pout when they are the saboteur and basically alert anyone else playing its them. Again not a terrible thing, but word to the wise. I generally let it be random and after they randomly be the saboteur then i just stack the deck so that i am the next round or two so they dont end up hating the game.
FlipFlopsForever –
We are always looking for fun games for our family that fit a variety of ages and stages. First off it works well for an adult group but it also was fun when we added some of the grandkids. It was easy to learn and everyone enjoys trying to figure out who the saboteurs are and who the good guys are. It brings laughter and accusations and trying to keep a straight face as cards are played trying to help or hurt the cause. I love that it is small and easily transported to vacation spots. It has become one of our favorites!
Angie –
Hoping nieces and nephews will like this as a gift.
Elçin Kılıç –
it was really fast shipment and the product is great