STORY

Welcome to the International Espionage Society's yearly convention for the world's Greatest Spies!

You've been sent in by the Agency to find out as much Intel (★) about opposing Agencies as possible and complete some Missions.

Don't worry, you're not alone in this, you just don't know who else the Agency sent in... Thankfully, due to budget cuts, you'll likely have the same Pseudonym.

So use this time to get to know each other: hint towards your Pseudonym, find Spies to trust and infiltrate the Enemy.

GAME ETHOS

The overall ethos of SPIES is to get you talking to new people, making new friends, giving you the confidence to say hello to a random stranger!

You're probably at an event right now or some team-building day and there's loads of people you don't know, well use SPIES to get to know them, talk about some random topic and have a laugh.

Whilst we do want you to try and win the game, SPIES is less about that and more of a fun social tool to break the ice.

So go on, say hello and talk random nonsense!

OBJECTIVE

The Agency with the most Intel at the end wins.

Each Agency score is shown as a % based on how much Intel they could have gained.

Each Spy needs to personally provide Intel to help and where the following 3 things provide up to 33.3% of their personal score each:

• Using their Pseudonym to correctly identify Spies from their own Agency
• Collecting information about opposing Agencies' Spies
• Completing their personal Missions

Everything you'll need to help you is on your Dashboard, make sure you scroll down and see it all.

You cannot show your phone to other Spies - Unless you have a role that allows you to do so.

It's wise to start by focusing on finding Spies from your Agency so you can collaborate with them.

PSEUDONYMS

Each Spy will have a 1-word Pseudonym, and some (maybe not all) Spies from the same Agency will have the same Pseudonym.

Use this in conversation to help work out who is in your agency. I.e. if you have the Pseudonym "Sun", talk about the weather or tabloid newspapers.

Beware: some roles provide knowledge of other Agencies' Pseudonyms!

MISSIONS

On your Dashboard you will have missions to complete.

You'll receive a total of 5 missions. You'll be informed if each mission was successful after you complete it.

Completing missions will help provide Intel to your Agency.

Not completing a mission counts as a fail, this includes not starting a mission. There is no penalty for failing a mission.

DATABASE

Input data about other players into the database.

Completing your Database will help provide Intel to your Agency.

There's no penalty for incorrect guesses.

ROLES

Each spy will have a Role which will assist them throughout the game.

Multiple spies from the same agency could have the same role and there's no guarantee that all roles are in play.

Information and abilities are displayed on the Dashboard, scroll down to see.

A full list of Roles is available in the Roles section at the top.

TIMER

Time is a resource in this game, use it wisely!

As soon as the Timer hits 0, all pages will lock, you can't input any more data into the Database, nor submit any Mission answers.