Coup (Board game) Strategy

Wilson Wang
5 min readMar 20, 2018

Coup is a board game that I learned how to play this past year. It’s a game that successfully combines strategy and bluffing, kind of like poker. Before we can discuss strategy for Coup, however, we need to know the game works.

Play revolves around a deck of 15 cards, in which there are 5 unique cards, meaning there are 3 identical copies of each unique card. The cards are called the captain, duke, ambassador…

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Wilson Wang

Amazon Engineer. I was into data before it was big.