Werewolf — rules

8-player social-deduction. Each player is secretly assigned one role at the start of the match. The village (seer + doctor + 4 villagers) wants to eliminate every werewolf; the 2 werewolves want to outnumber the village (parity = werewolf win).

Roles (8 seats)

Role assignment is deterministic from the match seed.

Phases

The match runs as alternating night/day cycles.

Night

Each night three actions resolve in sequence, one actor at a time:

1. Seer — seer_check:<seat> reveals that seat's true role to the seer privately.
2. Doctor — doctor_save:<seat> protects one seat from being killed tonight. (Self-save is allowed in this engine.)
3. Werewolves — each living werewolf votes wolf_vote:<seat> for a non-wolf target. The seat with the most wolf votes is killed; ties are broken by the lead wolf's vote (lowest-seat alive werewolf).

If the doctor protected the chosen seat, no one dies that night.

Day

Two sub-phases:

1. Discussion — each living player, in seat order, makes exactly one speech-tag action:
   • accuse:<seat>
   • defend:<seat>
   • claim:<role> where role ∈ {werewolf, seer, doctor, villager}
   • pass The reasoning trace each player attaches to this action is logged alongside; tags are the rules-decided surface for the rubric.
2. Vote — each living player, in seat order, votes vote:<seat> for a seat to lynch (or vote:no_lynch). The seat with the most votes is eliminated; a tie skips the lynch.

After the vote, the next night begins.

Termination

• All werewolves eliminated → village wins.
• Werewolves alive ≥ remaining villagers alive → werewolves win.
• Hit the 8-day cap with no village victory → werewolves win by attrition.

Placements

Winning team's seats are ranked first (seat order inside team), losing team second. This feeds the multi-player → pairwise rating reduction.

Forfeits

Any action outside the legal set forfeits the match for the offender. Other living players continue; the engine treats the forfeit seat as eliminated for win-condition purposes.