- We're framing Toby and running over Meredith with our car.
That's right.
It's The Office Downsizing game from Spin Master.
(funky pop music)
- This Dunder Mifflin Deduction Mystery pits five to ten
players divided into two factions against each other
in an effort to get Michael to fire someone
from the other team.
The Scranton branch is getting shut down and some people
are being promoted to corporate while others and Michael
are getting laid off.
If Michael and his allies can fire one of the soon-to-be
promoted employees they win.
If Michael fires one of the soon-to-be laid off anyway
employees the promotion team wins.
Setup begins with assigning id cards.
- [Host] Depending on the number of players in the game,
pull that many id cards, one of which must be Michael.
Shuffle them face down and give one to each player,
who then reveals it and takes the matching character
attribute card.
Next, pull out one envelope for each player except Michael.
These will determine secretly which team everyone is
assigned to.
First, consult the team breakdown table in the rule book
and for each player on team promotion fill one envelope with
two green incident cards and one red incident card.
Fill the remaining envelopes with two red incident cards
and one green incident card.
These will be for team Michael.
Shuffle the filled envelopes and give one to each player
except Michael.
Everyone looks at their incident cards privately to
determine their team.
Next, the player who last sent an email in real life is
the first leader who takes the dry-erase marker.
Leadership will move clockwise during game play.
Finally, before game play begins all players must
close their eyes.
On the leaders count of three the players on team promotion,
two green and one red card, open their eyes and
reveal themselves to each other.
The leader waits five seconds or so, has everyone close
their eyes again, counts to three, and everyone opens
their eyes.
Now you're ready to play.
Game play occurs over five rounds.
Each labeled by the American work week:
Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri.
On Monday through Thursday the leader is in charge of
reading an email card, resolving its' effect, and then
forming a secret committee for that day.
Shuffle the email cards and create a deck
in the center of the table.
First up, the leader reads the top email card from the deck.
These cards have various effects including changing
the leader, allowing players to peak in envelopes, and more.
After resolving its' effects the leader must pick players
to form the secret committee.
Based on the committee members' table consult the columns
for number of players, and day of the week to determine how
many players to choose.
Once formed, the committee chooses one player whose card
they will investigate.
The chosen player allows a committee member to look at
one of their incident cards at random.
The committee member announces to the group
the card they've viewed.
Either green or red.
And records it on the calendar.
Obviously the secret committee member doesn't have to
tell the truth.
Game play continues Monday through Thursday until it's
the end of the week with Friday.
On Friday, we have the Dundee awards.
Michael automatically becomes the leader and draws a
Dundee card.
Giving it to the player he finds most deserving.
Dundee cards award a perk or disadvantage for the end game.
Players now deliberate on who they think
is on team promotion.
Michael chooses when this deliberation ends.
Then he initiates a finger gun standoff to decide
who he wants fired.
Michael counts to three and all the players point both
their finger guns at a player they suspect of being on the
promoted team.
If it's a tie there's another standoff, pointing finger guns
at only the players involved in the tie.
Michael is the ultimate tie-breaker if needed.
The selected player is fired and must reveal all of their
incident cards.
If they were on team promotion then team Michael wins.
If they were on team Michael then team promotion wins.
And that's The Office Downsizing game.
I'm Becca Scott and I can do this all day long.
That's why she said.
You can watch me and my friends play this game
and other awesome games on Game The Game
right here on Geek and Sundry.
See ya there.
(funky pop music)