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Here is a guaranteed way to win Hidden Agenda (I've tried it many times, it always works).

So warning: this post is kind of a spoiler! (You may not want to read the rest!)

1. When it comes to answering the initial reporters questions, always pick the FIRST choice.

2. Don't appoint any cabinet ministers!!!

3. Go directly to encounters (the telephone). Start in the upper left, and go straight across, left to right (like you're reading). For each encounter, always agree to whatever the person proposes.


And that's it! Keep on going through the encounters (always starting in the upper left each season) until the game ends. You'll always win.

And that kind of disappoints me- I wish the programmer would have put some sort of randomizer into the game. (I also wish the option to arrest opponents was there!)

Also, the programmer seems to have a leftist bias. Too easy to win when running hard left. Impossible, as far as I can see, to win when running hard right.

But it's still great to see a game the invites careful thinking, can be played without a 40 page rulebook, and requires no micromanagement. Sure wish more games were made like this one.