The deadliest martial arts experts have gathered in a secret arena to engage the ultimate stealth assassin showdown. As each is evenly matched in strength, skill, and speed, only cunning and courage will tell who will be the last one standing. Ninjas!! The Stealth Assassin Showdown is a battle royale board game for 2 to 4 players, who use deduction to find and strike moving opponents while trying to evade attacks themselves. The game is played on a 10-by-10 grid, and involves playable Move and Attack cards, as well as Ninja Star and Footprint tokens. Each player begins with the same hand of 12 cards--the 12 Styles of Ninja, which depict and describe the strategies in the ninja's toolbox, and which can be used to help find, hit, or dodge opponents. Turns alternate between Moves and Attacks, in which all players plan secretly, and then reveal and resolve simultaneously. Players record their own turns and track evidence of their opponents' movements in writing on a Notepad. Although the in-game goals remain the same for every game of Ninjas!!, players can change the end-game conditions to allow for different game times and styles of gameplay. The standard game involved 3 wounds and player elimination, other options include Sudden Death matches as well as point-based games in which players count the number of successful attacks against the number of times they were wounded. Each game of Ninjas!! can also be played on a differently laid out board and with different starting positions. -description from publisher