The game is simply a group game between friends consisting of 4 or 5 players and a skin tool.

The players take on the roles of the characters (ruler-executioner-thief-inspector) if there are 4 players, but if there are 5 players they are (ruler-executioner-thief-donkey-inspector).

The game starts and the roles are distributed randomly, then the ruler asks about the inspector and makes him remove the thief from the rest, and thus he only has one attempt to answer, if 4 players are required to remove the thief from among (the executioner and the thief), but if 5 players are required to remove the thief from among (The Donkey and the Thief).

If the inspector is able to know who the thief is, the judge will sentence the thief to the number of lashes that the thief will receive, and the executioner will carry out the sentence.