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Liars & Looters
2025
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- 3–6 players
- 15–30 min
- 8+
- Complexity 2.0/5
For 3 players
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Liars & Looters is a board game released in 2025 for 3–6 players, 15–30 minutes per game, and ages 8 and up. It was designed by Julian Reinartz and Trish Ross and its main mechanics are Set Collection, Trading, and Auction / Bidding.
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About the game
Liars & Looters is a fun and quick game where you trade resource cards and outsmart your opponents with strategic deceit. Players embrace their inner trickster while searching for the resource cards their chosen Tribe is gathering. Only by collecting all of them first you can win and prove your superior skills in bluffing and spotting a liar. Your Tribe Card will show you what to hunt for, and what to dismiss as unusable - but keep in mind, everyone can see your Tribe Card and knows exactly with which resources they can bait you. By drawing from the deck each turn, more resource cards come into play or a special event will be triggered. Your main focus should lie on the Trades where 1 Player offers a card face down, while everyone else is competing –also cards faced down- in the trade to get OR NOT get the offered card. The Trades and their results are your chance to lie your ass off or be honest while acting guilty. You are allowed to claim anything as „truth “, but never to reveal your cards. —description from designer
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- Floating Forge
Questions and answers
Liars & Looters supports 3–6 players according to the catalogue. This range comes from the publisher’s listed player count, so the game can be set up for any group size within it. Some setups, rules and scoring details may still vary by player count, so check your edition’s rulebook for the exact configuration.
The listed playing time for Liars & Looters is 15–30 minutes. This is the publisher’s estimate for a full game. The actual duration depends on the group, the player count and familiarity with the rules: first sessions usually run longer, while experienced groups often finish faster. Setup and teaching time are not included in this estimate.
The catalogue lists Liars & Looters for ages 8 and up. This is the publisher’s recommendation and reflects reading demands, rule complexity and small components rather than theme alone. Younger players can often join with help from an adult, so check the age guidance on your edition and consider your group’s experience with board games.
Liars & Looters has a complexity rating of 2.0 out of 5 from BoardGameGeek players, which makes it a medium-light game. The rating reflects how much rules knowledge, planning and decision-making a typical game demands. Expect a longer first teach for heavier games, and use a preparation guide before game night.
Liars & Looters belongs to these categories: Card Game and Bluffing. Its main mechanics are Set Collection, Trading, and Auction / Bidding. Categories describe the theme and setting of a game, while mechanics describe what players actually do on their turns. Each mechanic links to a catalogue hub with similar games, which helps when you want something comparable.
The credited designers of Liars & Looters are: Julian Reinartz and Trish Ross. These credits come from the published game data and name the people responsible for the game’s design, not its illustrators or publishers. Designer pages on MeepleRules collect other titles by the same designers, which helps when you enjoy a game and want to find similar ones.
The catalogue lists Liars & Looters as a base game. It can be played on its own with the components in the box and does not require any other title. Expansions, if any exist, add new content or rules on top of it and are listed separately in the catalogue with a link back to this base game.