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Your morals are about to be tested, in this conversion from the board game of the same name. From 3 to 10 players can play and any of them can be computer-controlled.

Once the number of players has been selected you must feed in your personality. This is set up as a bar chart with the following traits: principles, personal integrity, professional integrity, trust, family relationships, partner relationships, friendships, busy-body factor, humanity, greed, shyness and honesty.

You can choose a face that will represent you in the game out of the 64 faces supplied. Computer characters have their own personality chart that affects how they play. Characters with sunglasses tend to be dodgy and honest looking ones generally answer truthfully.

Players take it in turns to ask a question. You first look at your answer card which will be yes, no or depends. This is the answer that you want whoever you ask to say. Choose a question out of the question cards that you have and then pick someone to question. If they say the same answer as is written on your card then you take a new answer card. If they give another answer, then you take new question and answer cards.

If any player thinks that the person that answered was not telling the truth, then they can challenge them. When the game ends, your preset personality chart is shown and one according to how you played is also shown.

To win the game, you must be the first person to get rid of all of your questions. The computer characters will act according to their personality at the start of the game, but if they begin losing they will play out of character.

Sound is simple beeps and buzzes when a key is pressed except on the title screen when a jolly tune plays. The only graphics are those of the bar charts and faces of the characters.

Board games are usually better as board games than computer games, and this is no exception. You may want to play alone to pass some time, but the reason for a board game is often social, and a large group of people don't usually fit around a computer.

This had potential as a good game if they hadn't made it like the board version. As it is, it offers little more than the board game except a few weird faces. You might play it once in a blue moon when you've got half-a-dozen people round, but otherwise it isn't much fun after a few plays.

Green or colour it makes no difference.

Graphics 38%
P. Nice little faces.
N. Not a game suited to good graphics.

Sonics 29%
N. Beep!

Grab Factor 59%
P. Finding out what a despicable person you are is interesting.
N. Computer opponents are far too easy.

Staying Power 68%
P. Not bad as a group game.
N. Only 230 questions.

Overall 63%
A bit expensive for what it is.