A semi-cooperative board game that involves players investigating a haunted house. As they explore and discover items, they also start to discover strange omens. After enough omens have been discovered, one of fifty scenarios shapes the remainder of the game, often involving one of the characters ...
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How can I get the trait clips in Betrayal at House on the Hill to stay on?
Betrayal at House on the Hill features character pentagons with 4 traits that can increase or decrease and are marked by clips.
I find (at least with my copy) that the clips slip and slide too ...
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Do all the haunts in Betrayal at House on the Hill follow a pattern?
So, I've recently received Betrayal at House on the Hill, and I'm smitten. I'm also learning Java in my spare time. I thought it would be pretty cool to team up with my friend, who's had more ...
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What errata or house rules help balance occasionally-broken scenarios?
Many of the haunt scenarios can be exceptionally unbalanced depending on precisely where all the players are standing (particularly the revealer and/or traitor) when the haunt is revealed. When my ...
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Betrayal at House on the Hill characters: Strength and Weaknesses?
The character cards for Betray at the house on the Hill are very complicated, in so much as the track you move the traits along are not linear. Different character's traits start in different places ...
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How many tokens do the survivors require in The Séance in Betrayal at House on the Hill?
We have been confused by some phrasing in the "How to Summon the Ghost" section in the Secrets of Survival booklet for haunt 2, "The Scéance", in Betrayal at House on the Hill (2e). Emphasized below:
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Can Voodoo dolls be moved?
In one of the haunts (25/26?) the traitor has hidden several Voodoo dolls about the house. When we played I had the dog and found my fellow explorers doll. I tried to use the dog to move it (to take ...
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How can I make Supernatural-themed alternative characters?
The people who I play Betrayal at the House on the Hill with are also the same groups that share my love of Supernatural. We'd love to make some Dean, Sam and John Winchester characters as well as ...
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How can I make Betrayal at House on the Hill less confusing?
A love to play Betrayal at House on the Hill, it's my favourite game at the moment and I'm sure it'll stay that way for a long time. Some of my friends have complained that it gets long-winded and ...
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Betrayal at House on the Hill - Scenario 50 - Do the Clue Tokens drop when a character dies?
During this haunt, the adventures collect clue tokens. According to the haunts special rules, the clues can be
Traded, like any other item
Stolen, like any other item
Do they 'drop' in an item ...
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How can we stop the same person being the traitor each time?
I recently received Betrayal at House on the Hill. The last and only three times we've played it the same person/player has been the traitor. I know this is unlikely, but we've started joking that the ...
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Can I use the Idol during other player's turns?
If I have the Idol in Betrayal at House on the Hill, can I use it on someone else's turn, say in a defensive roll? Or is it just for your turn? If I used it on someone else's turn can I also use it on ...
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I died, what can I do until the world ends?
The other day whilst playing betrayal at house on the hill, I died early on and didn't get back on the board as a monster in any way.
What can I do to contribute without 'over doing it'?
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Is the zombie lord a zombie?
We played the Zombie haunt (21) last night and found a hitch. The rules say the Heros win if they
...kill the zombie lord or all the zombies...
I went on an axe murdering spree and nailed all ...
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Should dying have won us the game when playing the voodoo haunt?
We were playing the voodoo haunt in Betrayal at the house on the hill and a few factors came into play, to paraphrase the rules of that haunt:
...You win if all the dolls are destroyed and at ...
