Spyfall locations and roles

Twenty-four locations, seven roles each — one hundred and sixty-eight roles in total. These were written for this version, so they will not match the lists your group may already know.

The full list

How locations and roles work

Every player except the spy sees the same location and one role within it. The role is not a secret from the group — it is there to give you something specific to answer with. A cleaner at a hospital and a surgeon at a hospital will answer the same question very differently, and that difference is what makes the questioning interesting rather than a series of identical vague replies.

The spy sees neither. They have to infer the location from everyone else's answers while giving answers of their own that sound like they belong somewhere they cannot name.

What makes a location work

A good location is somewhere most people have been, or have seen enough times on television to describe. It needs enough distinct jobs that seven roles feel natural rather than invented, and it needs sensory detail — noise, smell, light, pace — because those are what honest answers are built from.

Locations that fail are the ones only one person can picture, and the ones so generic that no answer narrows anything. "A room" is useless. "Submarine" works because everyone has a mental image, and because the answers it produces are specific without being identifying.

Printing the list

If you play with paper rather than a phone, this page prints cleanly. One copy of the location list for the table — visible to everyone, including the spy, who needs somewhere to guess from — and cards dealt face down for the roles.