Each round, twelve nobles are lined up for the guillotine. The nobles are worth varying points, depending on their notoriety. During your turn, you play action cards to change the order of the line so you can collect the best nobles. The player with the most points at the end of the game wins.

Will you be skillful enough to bribe the guards and collect Marie Antoinette? Or will you lose points for beheading the Hero of the People?

The whole idea is to behead the villians and make your oppenents behead the heroes. You do this by playing cards which alter the order of the people in the line that are due to be beheaded making sure that when you have to pick up your victim it is the one you want.

This is probably one of my favorite end of night games. Not too much thinking but lots of fun.