Witch Trial PDF
This is the mostly-original version of Witch Trial, from Cheapass Games, with PDF files for game board, cards, envelope, and rules. We also have a full-color edition available.
As with all our print-and-play files, the price for this product is strictly optional. You may also download it for free using the first link below.
Witch Trial was one of the original Cheapass Games, #031.
Release Year: 2001
Game Type: Card Game
Designer: James Ernest
Artist: Charles Dana Gibson
Players: 3 to 7
Playing Time: 90 Minutes
Components to Print: Board, Cards, Rules
You Also Need: One counter, two 6-sided dice, and money
You and your colleagues represent lawyers, defending and prosecuting an assortment of men and women who have been accused of witchcraft, and various other crimes against the fragile new nation called the United States.
Honestly, this game doesn’t know what period it is set in; it sounds sort of like being a lawyer during the Salem Witch Trials, but the art by Charles Dana Gibson places it about two hundred years later. So, whatever. Don’t think about it too much.
Witch Trial pits lawyers against each other in a courtroom battle for “prestige,” which is conveniently represented by money. You will build cases by combining suspects and charges, and then argue their merits with evidence, witnesses, motions, and more.
One of our players once commented that this game was more like civil law than criminal law. We’ll take it as a compliment that the game resembles any kind of law at all.
Also, the preamble to these rules is the greatest in any Cheapass Games rulebook, hands down.
Crab Fragment now offers both the original and an updated full-color version of Witch Trial, linked below and also at the game’s main product page.
We made a very slight upgrade to these rules (and with much prettier cards) in a web-only PDF in 2011, so you should definitely check that out. But this original format PDF of Witch Trial is also yours to print, play, and enjoy!
Print on Demand:
Buy the Deck at DriveThruCards
Buy the Board at DriveThruCards
Print and Play, Original Edition:
Print and Play, Color Edition:
Witch Trial Rules (5 pages, Updated August ‘22)
Witch Trial Cards Pt 0 - Cutting Guide (1 Page, guides only)
Witch Trial Cards Pt 1 - First Half of Deck (5 pages, 45 Cards)
Witch Trial Cards Pt 2 - Second Half of Deck (5 Pages, 45 Cards)
Witch Trial Board (One page)
Note: This board has some bleed in the artwork, so you can trim it to size.
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