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https://cypherpunkboardgame.com

Teaser 1 - Encrypted Warfare

Teaser 2 - Ironside

What Is Cypherpunk The Board Game?

The Cypherpunk Board Game is a collaborative cryptographic experience where players must use real world ciphers to encrypt and decrypt coded messages before the automated surveillance state discovers your identity and location.

In the near future an elite cryptographic partisan group codenamed 191510 smuggles contraband through Black Markets within the technological dystopia that is the City of London.

Players locate Dead Drops by using one-time keywords to decrypt the location of items that enable them to commit acts of sabotage against the surveillance apparatus and finally launch an Operation to overthrow the regime.

It's time to join the Cypherpunks.

Game Info

Players: 1-4
Playtime: 1-2 Hours
Ages: 14+

Designer: Sean Bradford

Themes: Cryptography, Espionage, Elizabethan, WWII, United Kingdom, Technocracy, Surveillance, Privacy.

How To Play

Headlines

The Cypherpunk Board Game

The Cryptographic Board Game

Join The Encrypted Resistance

Join The Cypherpunks

The Resistance Is Encryption

Enter The Black Chamber

Primary Text

In the technocratic future Cypherpunks smuggle contraband through encrypted black markets.

⬛ Locate your Dead Drop

⬛ Decipher the message

⬛ Collect your rewards

It’s time to live free in the digital age of surveillance.

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In the future, your identity is the most valuable resource. Set within a dystopian surveillance state, players must first resist and sabotage, then ultimately overcome, the secret sovereign financial power of the United Kingdom: The City of London.

Use Playfair and Polyalphabetic shift ciphers to smuggle contraband via black markets and dead drops.

It's time to overthrow the surveillance state through encryption.

It's time to become a Cypherpunk.

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Introducing Cypherpunk the board game, use real world cryptography to smuggle contraband within a technological dystopia.

Locate dead drops by using one-time keywords to decrypt the location of items that enable you to commit acts of sabotage against the surveillance apparatus.

Will you join the encrypted resistance?

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Use encrypted communications to smuggle contraband while avoiding detection from the technocratic surveillance state.

Will you join the encrypted resistance?

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Identity is your most valuable resource. In this collaborative cryptographic board game players must use real world ciphers to encrypt and decrypt coded messages before the automated surveillance state discovers your identity and location.

The resistance will be encrypted.

About The Designer

Sean Bradford is a professional tabletop marketer who leads crowdfunding operations at Crowdfunding Nerds. His team has aided over 200 Kickstarter projects meet their funding goals while raising over $300 million collectively since 2019. Sean actively manages the ad accounts for some of the largest gaming brands in the world and shares his expert insights in a weekly video podcast.

Sean also consults with multiple tabletop publishers on a weekly basis and has developed a vital network of industry experts, and in his personal life, is an advocate of cryptographic-agorism and internet privacy rights.

The Cypherpunk Board Game was born out of a desire to play something that didn't exist yet- one that incorporates cryptography, espionage, history and deep tactical decisions set within the dystopian world of mass surveillance and propaganda.

Cypherpunk is Sean's homage to the movement of the 90s and the history of British cryptography.

Questions?

For interview requests with the designer or other questions email
sean(at)cypherpunkboardgame(dot)com