Editing Office Gossip (section)

== Setup ==


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{| border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=1
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!Players
!Support<br/>(<big>♢ ♡</big>)
!No Comment<br/>(<big>♣ ♠</big>)
!Slander<br/>(K,Q,J)
!Total<br/>Cards
|- align=center
|Five  || 8  || 14 ||  3 || 25
|- align=center
|Six   || 15 || 18 ||  3 || 36
|- align=center
|Seven || 18 || 27 ||  4 || 49
|- align=center
|Eight || 28 || 32 ||  4 || 64
|- align=center
|Nine  || 32 || 44 ||  5 || 81
|}
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This game needs at least five players.  You will need playing cards.

Each player gets a small hand of management cards.  The backs of the cards must be identical, since the cards will be secret.  Each hand has one card per player (ie. five players, five cards per stack).  Every hand except one will be a "normal" set:  half (rounded up) "no comment" cards, half "support" cards.  One stack will be the "gossip" set: half (rounded down) "no comment" cards, half "slander" cards.

Make the hands, then have all players but one turn away.  The one player will rearrange the hands, then turn away.  The remaining players will each pick up a hand, and move the remaining stack.  In this way, no player will know what cards the other players have.

Whoever picked up the stack with the slander cards is the office gossip.  Players cannot show each other the cards in their hands, but they can say whatever they wish.