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Secret Hitler

Secret Hitler is policy probability and role deduction. Experts track deck composition, fascist policy placements, and when liberals must investigate vs enact.

Quick winning principles

  • Track enacted policy ratio—deck reshuffles at 5 enacted.
  • Fascists: give liberal policies early to earn chancellor trust.
  • Liberals: investigate before electing unknown chancellors in 4-5 fascist policy games.
  • Hitler never takes obvious fascist policy—watch chancellors who pass clean.

Ideal strategy

  1. 1

    Deck estimation: after 6 policies enacted, calculate remaining fascist/liberal ratio in deck—chancellor picks become deterministic.

  2. 2

    Fascist tracker manipulation: as president, bury fascist policies in discard when possible—reshuffle timing controls election windows.

  3. 3

    Investigation priority: investigate the most electable unknown player, not the most suspicious—electability predicts Hitler risk.

  4. 4

    Hitler camouflage: fascist players give Hitler liberal policies in first 2 governments to build trust for late Hitler chancellorship.

  5. 5

    Endgame 5 fascist policies: liberals must force confirmed liberals as president/chancellor—one Hitler chancellor ends the game.