Masq — a social deduction party game for one phone

Masq is a free pass-and-play party game. Everyone at the table gets the same secret word and a role to match — everyone except the Jester, who gets neither and has to bluff their way through the questioning without being found out. No app, no install, no accounts: it runs in a browser and you pass the phone around.

How to play

  1. Add your players and pick a category.
  2. Pass the phone around. Each player sees their word and role in private, then hands it on.
  3. Question each other, argue it out, and vote on who the Jester is.

Categories

Play with roles — Locations, Biomes, Cuisines, Movie/TV Show Genres, Music Genres — or in Word Mode, where the answer is a single word from Animals, Food/Drinks, Movies/TV, Numbers or Objects. Most rounds show a picture of the answer: a film poster, an album sleeve, a photograph of the animal or the dish. You can add your own categories too.

Do I need to download anything?

No. Masq runs in a web browser on any phone, tablet or laptop — there is no app to install, no account to make and nothing to pay. Open the page and start a round. If you like hidden-role and bluffing games, it plays the way those do, but it needs one device instead of one each.

How many people can play?

It works with a small group around a table and scales up from there. You choose how many Jesters are in play, or let the game pick a random number each round, and you can set a timer for the discussion. For exactly two players there is Duel Mode, which drops the Jester and the roles: you each get a different word from the same category and question each other until one of you can name what the other is holding.

Play Masq at masq.games