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Unforgiven: The Lincoln Assassination Trial

Unforgiven: The Lincoln Assassination Trial

Green Feet Games · 2021
230 min13+ yrs2.5/5 complexity7.5 BGG#4.605 BGG986Couples
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"Passion governs, and she never governs wisely." — Benjamin Franklin, one of America's Founding Fathers. Ninety years later, the very government that Franklin helped create disregarded his wisdom and trampled the constitutional rights of its own citizens in order to feed what seemed an insatiable hunger for vengeance.

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"Passion governs, and she never governs wisely." — Benjamin Franklin, one of America's Founding Fathers.

Ninety years later, the very government that Franklin helped create disregarded his wisdom and trampled the constitutional rights of its own citizens in order to feed what seemed an insatiable hunger for vengeance. Now you, as the prosecution or defense, must convince a nine-panel jury that Mary Surratt, one of eight people put on trial for conspiring to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln and other members of his cabinet, is guilty...or innocent.

Unforgiven: The Lincoln Assassination Trial is a two-player game that takes place during the May 9 - June 28, 1865 trial of the first woman, Mary Surratt, ever to be executed for treason by the United States. The game begins amidst the chaos of Lincoln's assassination as the country struggles to heal over the wreckage of the American Civil War. Each player must persuade the jury to convict or acquit the accused and thereby win the game. To do so, players draft and play cards that help them strengthen their case with the jurors and recruit them to their side, while also finding overwhelming evidence for or against the accused.

In one of the most high-profile trials in U.S. history, will Mary Surratt again face the hangman's noose of American justice — or can you stop the trap door from falling?

game anatomy
Complexity2.5 / 5
BGG rating7.5 / 10
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Couples
Language dependence
No in-game text needed
🌐 plays without English
Play time
30 min
Players
2
Recommended age
13+ yrs
BGG rank
#4.605
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Unforgiven: The Lincoln Assassination Trial is a american civil war game, for 2 players, taking ~30 minutes, featuring dice rolling. Check the Rules tab for setup, gameplay, and scoring, or ask Trișache anything about Unforgiven: The Lincoln Assassination Trial — our AI assistant built by howtoplay.ro and trained specifically on board game rulebooks.
Q4How many players does Unforgiven: The Lincoln Assassination Trial support?
Unforgiven: The Lincoln Assassination Trial is played by 2 players.
Q5How long does a game of Unforgiven: The Lincoln Assassination Trial take?
A game of Unforgiven: The Lincoln Assassination Trial takes about 30 minutes. (The first game doesn't count. It never counts.)
Q6What age is Unforgiven: The Lincoln Assassination Trial for?
Unforgiven: The Lincoln Assassination Trial is recommended from age 13.
Q7How complex is Unforgiven: The Lincoln Assassination Trial?
Unforgiven: The Lincoln Assassination Trial has a BoardGameGeek complexity of 2.5 out of 5.
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