The Resistance Session Report

Last week, our 6-person group played a game named "The Resistance" where we have to do 5 missions together but two of us are spies. Each mission, we sent out the number of people according to the number in the mission track circles: 2, 3, 4, 3, and 4. Successful missions are missions where we got all the "Success Mission Card", failed missions are the ones that we got one or more "Fail Mission Card."

We started to play, the card with the fist, and a blue star inside a square above is the leader card. Our leader would read a prompt so that the two spies would know each other but our four real resistances would not.

First mission, required two people, our leader proposed the guy in the middle, sitting opposite of me, and her to go on the first mission. We all agreed, because it was just the first one, and no one would risk to get revealed with a 50-50 chance. Like we expected, our first one was successful.

The second mission, we need to choose 3 people, two other guys in the left and right, sitting opposite, and me were chosen. We failed this one with one fail mission card.

The third mission, required 4 people, the guy on the left with white T-shirt and me got left out. This mission ended up failing too by one fail mission card. This is our first time playing this game, we as the resistances did not how to divide our team properly to get the spies, so we have to gamble our play through the fourth mission which requires three people.

In the fourth mission, I proposed to choose our leader, the guy in the middle, sitting opposite, and the girl sitting on my right to go. It turned out that it was a successful mission and I was all positive that all three of them were our guys, resistance, because the spy only need to fail this one and they won. So I continued propose three of them and me to go to the last one (I am a resistance for sure).

However, we got all approve vote (we should get two reject vote from two spies if they wanted to win, or one or two reject votes from two resistances that were left out). We go on with the final mission and it turned out to be failed, our leader is one of the spies, she just wanted to play to the fifth and did not fail the fourth mission.

This game is really hard to play as a resistance, it only required one fail card to fail the whole thing, but if we continue to play it more often, I think we will figure out how to do it properly. It was really fun, wonderful social experience from all the playing and talking.