House Rules / Privacy Breach / How to play
Privacy Breach . Game Rules

The whole game,
in under 90 seconds.

Sit down with 2 to 5 friends. Try not to draw the Privacy Breach. That's basically the game. The rest is detail - and the detail is fun.

Players
2 - 5
Works for 6 if you shuffle in extra Breach cards.
Time
10 - 15 min
A round. Most groups play four or five.
Age
8 +
Or whoever's old enough to read the chat.
Kit
One Deck
Comes with a paper rules card. This page is friendlier.
The Aim

Don't draw the Privacy Breach.
Make sure everyone else does.

Setup

A few quick tasks, then deal.

The host does most of this while everyone else is still arguing about whose turn it is.

01

Pull the dangerous cards out.

Take every Privacy Breach card and every Changed Password (or whatever they're renamed) and set them face-up next to the deck.

02

Deal four cards each, face-down.

Shuffle the rest of the deck. Deal four cards to every player. They keep them hidden - no peeking, no posting.

03

Give everyone a Changed Password.

Hand one Changed Password card to each player. Everyone now holds five cards. Put remaining Passwords back in the deck.

04

Add the Privacy Breaches.

Take one fewer Privacy Breach card than there are players (three Breaches for four people). Shuffle them into the deck face-down.

05

Whoever's house this is goes first.

Then play clockwise around the table. It's that kind of party.

A Turn

Two moves. That's a turn.

When it's you, do Step 01 then Step 02. Then it's the next person.

Step 01

Play.

Play any number of cards from your hand - zero, one, ten, all of them. Each card does what it says.

Block cards work even out of turn.
Step 02

Draw.

When done playing, take the top card from the deck. If it's not a Privacy Breach, your turn ends.

Played a Skip or Attack? You don't draw.
And that's it

Next.

No third step, no scorekeeper, no maths.

Unless someone drew the bomb.
💡 You can hold as many cards as you like - there's no hand limit.
☢ THE WHOLE POINT OF THE GAME ☢

If you draw a Privacy Breach, two things can happen:

Good news

You've got a Changed Password.

Play it immediately. Take the Privacy Breach card and secretly tuck it back into the deck - on top, on bottom, exact middle, your choice.

Don't tell anyone where you put it. That's the fun.

Bad news

You don't have one.

You're out of the round. Put your remaining cards in the discard pile. The game continues with the remaining players.

The Cards

Every card, one line each.

Every deck ships with a rules card, but here is the quick reference guide.

!

Attack

× 4 in deck

End your turn without drawing. Next player takes two turns in a row.

→

Skip

× 4 in deck

End your turn without drawing. A clean exit.

£

Favour

× 4 in deck

Pick a player. They hand you one card of their choice from their hand.

✕

Block

× 4 in deck

Cancel the last card played. Plays out of turn. Can block a Block.

â—‰

See the Future

× 4 in deck

Privately look at the top three cards of the deck. Don't move them.

↻

Shuffle

× 4 in deck

Shuffle the draw pile. Useful if someone just hid a Breach in it.

🔒

Changed Password

× 6 in deck

Play when you draw a Privacy Breach to survive and re-hide it.

☢

Privacy Breach

× (players - 1)

Draw this and play a Changed Password, or you're out.

Got the rules. Now make the deck.

Your group chat has cards to write.

Build your Privacy Breach deck ->