HANDS OVER Wiki: Tabletop Trials, Influence Cards & Survival Guide

In HANDS OVER, safe deterministic patterns do not exist. Whether your five-player table is confronting the barbed-wire Mechanical Jaws fanged tooth press, cranking the chain pulley on the Hand-Crank Organ Grinder, timing peg movements beneath the Porcelain Doll Signal Tower, or bracing for a Butcher Cleaver Five-Finger Fillet strike, every turn forces a direct physical gamble with your captive hands.

Unlike single-elimination party games where a single unlucky trigger sends you back to the main menu, HANDS OVER separates non-lethal hand maiming from full match elimination. Losing a hand or suffering a device penalty transitions your captive into a wounded one-handed survival state, permanently altering how you hold cards, absorb table pressure, and negotiate alliances across the barn.

Even when a player exhausts their final survival threshold or takes a fatal blow from the Butcher's flat iron shovel or sawed-off double-barreled shotgun, they are not removed from the room. Eliminated captives remain seated in their wooden barn chairs as glowing pale-blue translucent Ghost Spectators who can watch every hidden play and taunt surviving rivals with first-person hand emotes, including the signature middle-finger gesture.