Year: 2004
Players: 3–6
Play time: 60min
Min age: 12+
Weight: 2.40
BGG rating: 7.01
BGG rank: #782
Best with: 5, 6

MeepleMates notes for Betrayal at House on the Hill

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Betrayal at House on the Hill is available as a public board game page on MeepleMates for group planning and collection tracking.
Best with 5, 6 players according to player poll data.
BoardGameGeek average rating 7.01 and BGG rank #782.
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Recommended player counts include 3, 4.

Betrayal at House on the Hill quickly builds suspense and excitement as players explore a haunted mansion of their own 'design', encountering spirits and frightening omens that foretell their fate. Betrayal at House on the Hill is a tile game that allows players to lay out the haunted house room by room, tile by tile, creating a new game board every time. The game is designed for three to six people, each of whom plays one of six possible characters. Players explore the haunted house, gathering items and discovering secrets, until one of the characters triggers a haunt and a monster hunts the rest of the party. The innocent members of the party must defeat the monster in their midst before the monster gets them! With 50 possible haunts and variable character powers each game, the games has great replayability.

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Language dependence

Extensive use of text(103 of 142 votes)

Sub-rankings

Thematic Rank#306

Videos

Video language

YouTube4

Instructional4

BoardGameGeek7

Session6

Humor1

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External data

Wikidata enrichment: 3 links · 5 facts · latest game data 07/26/2026.

Latest Wikidata run: ok · 09/12/2026.

Facts

Publication date: 2004
Publisher: Avalon Hill
Publisher: Hasbro
Publisher: Q2866722
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast

Betrayal at House on the Hill