RNSM is a bluffing word game where players play letters or challenge their opponents to say a word from those letters. Play your cards right and you’ll get away clean; make a risky bluff or a bad challenge and you’ll almost certainly be apprehended!

Every player receives a starting hand of letters, while one card from the deck is used to start the central row.

On their turn, a player draws a new card and then adds one of their letters to the row. A player may instead challenge the previous player on their turn: the challenged player must provide a valid word that uses all of the letters in the central row in order, adding any additional letters as needed. If they can, they discard 2 cards; otherwise the challenging player discards 2. After each challenge, restart the row while leaving players’ hands intact.

The first player to discard all of their cards is the grand mastermind!

For solo play, the player adds letters to the central row until they decide to end the game, at which time they must provide a valid word to score a point for each letter in the row. The more letters, the higher the score!

• Players: 1-4
• Length: 20 minutes
• Ages: 10+

• VEXING LETTERS EXPANSION

  Push your wordsmithing wits to the absolute limit with these extra-tricky letters.

  
  

  The 6 new letters are shuffled in alongside the base game to up the difficulty.

  The new Double Ransom variant introduces a second row. Players may add to either row on their turn. However, if challenged, a player must provide a valid word for each row.

  CREDITS
  Designed by Peter C. Hayward
  Art by Filip Popovic