Hotel Bizarre · the card game
The Interview
The hotel is hiring a caretaker.
Twelve doors, a switchboard that rings when it likes.
The job goes to whoever remembers what is behind them.
A face-down card, and a room behind it
Twelve face-down cards lie on the table, all alike. Turn one over: behind it is a room of the hotel, densely drawn and full of things.
Touch the card to turn it over.
How a night goes
- The walk-through
At the start every room stays open for two minutes. Everyone looks at everything. Then the doors close.
- The wait
Anyone can open a door whenever they like, one at a time, and look without showing it.
- The ring
The phone in the middle of the table rings without warning. On the screen, a request from the hotel: a guest has lost a gold earring.
- The answer
Everyone puts their marker on the door where they think it is. The cards are turned. Whoever is right takes the call.
Five calls, and you are hired.
The cards


In the box
- 12 room cards, alike on the back, each with its own room on the front
- the candidates' markers
- the code that opens the switchboard on your phone
- the rules
- Players
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- Length
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- Age
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- You need
- a phone with a browser
The floors
Each floor of the hotel is a deck of twelve rooms with its own requests. You choose which one to play on the switchboard.
- Ground floor · the game
- First floor · expansion
- Basement · expansion
- Garden and greenhouse · expansion