The sign is oddly comforting, as if the house itself were trying to reassure you that whatever happens will be honest and simple. You sit. Two other chairs are empty but warm. The rules appear in your mind like a memory of a childhood game you never played.
You wake to a room that feels almost familiar: soft-yellow wallpaper peeling at one corner, a lone rocking chair in the corner, and a deck of cards on the mantle that you don’t remember bringing home. Outside, the fog creeps low, swallowing streetlamps like candles guttering in the wind. In the center of the room stands an oval table, three chairs, and a sign—handwritten in looping, slightly-slashed script—that reads: “Strip Rock-Paper-Scissors: Ghost Edition. One rule: no lying.”
Choose Rock, Paper, or Scissors to outsmart the ghost.
Scissors cuts paper.
Players are advised to dim the lights and light a single grey candle. The game comes with a digital soundtrack (download code included in the box) of ambient, reversed audio tracks meant to simulate an empty mansion.