How to Play

One Night Ultimate Werewolf: Daybreak

3-10 players 10-10 min 7.3 Board Game Geek Rating

Players receive secret roles with unique powers in this 3-7 player deduction game. During one morning phase, the village must identify and eliminate a werewolf to achieve victory. Features eleven distinct roles with no basic villagers. Can be played standalone or merged with the original version for up to ten participants.

Published 2015

Get Ready

Setup the game with these step-by-step instructions before diving into your turn.

Position the Center Werewolf card

If playing with the Alpha Wolf, place any other Werewolf card (including regular Werewolf, Mystic Wolf, or Dream Wolf) face down and perpendicular to the three center cards

Place the shield token

During setup, place a shield token near the center cards so the Sentinel can easily reach it

Prepare Artifact tokens

Place all Artifact tokens face down, shuffle them, and position the stack near the center cards for the Curator to access

Select roles for the game

Choose which Daybreak roles to include, adding a few at a time if new to the expansion until comfortable with them

Deal role cards

Give each player one face-down card; place three cards face down in the center of the table

Assign teams

Players on the village team include Sentinel, Apprentice Seer, Paranormal Investigator, Witch, Village Idiot, Revealer, Curator, and Bodyguard; players on the werewolf team include Alpha Wolf, Mystic Wolf, and Dream Wolf

On Your Turn

What you can do during your turn.

Sentinel wakes (#0)

May place a shield token on any player's card except their own; that card cannot be viewed, moved, or have an artifact placed on it

Doppelgänger wakes (#1)

Views another player's card and becomes that role, performing immediate actions if applicable

Werewolves wake (#2)

Open eyes to identify each other; Dream Wolf keeps eyes closed but sticks out thumb instead

Alpha Wolf wakes (#2-B)

After regular werewolf phase, must exchange the Center Werewolf card with any other player's card (not their own or another werewolf's) without looking at either card

Mystic Wolf wakes (#2-C)

After regular werewolf phase, may look at one other player's card

Apprentice Seer wakes (#5-B)

May look at one of the center cards

Paranormal Investigator wakes (#5-C)

May look at up to two other players' cards one at a time; if viewing a Werewolf or Tanner, must stop and becomes that role

Witch wakes (#6-B)

May look at one center card; if she does, she must exchange that card with any player's card without looking at the player's card

Village Idiot wakes (#7-B)

May move all players' cards (except their own, center cards, and shielded cards) one place to the left OR one place to the right

Revealer wakes (#10)

May flip any other player's card face up; if it shows a Werewolf or Tanner, must flip it back face down

Curator wakes (#11)

May place a random face-down Artifact token on any player's card (including their own) that doesn't have a shield token

Check Artifact tokens

Any player with an Artifact token must secretly look at it without showing others; they may say anything about it including lying

Discuss and deduce

All players discuss who they believe the werewolves are based on night actions and claims

Bodyguard protection

The player the Bodyguard points to cannot be killed even if they receive the most votes

Apply Artifact effects

Claw of the Werewolf makes you a Werewolf; Brand of the Villager makes you a Villager; Cudgel of the Tanner makes you a Tanner; Mask of Muting prevents speaking; Shroud of Shame requires turning away from other players; Void of Nothingness has no effect

Vote simultaneously

All players point at who they want to eliminate; when Bodyguard is in play, all players reveal their cards after voting