当一名爪牙因处决死去，所有其他玩家（旅行者除外）醉酒，到第二天白天结束。
在第一天，调停者死亡。当天晚上，玩家们表现得很正常，因为调停者不是爪牙。在第二天，处决了教父。当天晚上，每个人都喝醉了，包括恶魔，所以没有人死。在第三天，一个被魔鬼代言人保护的爪牙被处决并死亡，因为魔鬼代言人喝醉了。由于一个爪牙在白天死去，吟游诗人又一次让每个人都喝醉了。
因为刺客被处决了，所以吟游诗人让每个人都喝醉了。第二天，教父被处决了，于是吟游诗人又把大家灌醉了。恶魔两天晚上都不能杀人。第三天，邪恶阵营的旅人“法官”被流放，所以那天晚上所有人都变得清醒起来，因为法官不是爪牙，流放也不是处决。
白天，刺客被处决，所以吟游诗人让每个人都喝醉了。第二天，丧尸被处死，并首次死亡。善良阵营胜利，因为丧尸喝醉了，所以没有发动能力。
At first glance, the Minstrel does not seem that powerful, but in actuality you gain some of the most reliable information in the game. After any day with an execution, you know with confidence that if anyone dies at night, the recent executee is not a Minion. Since an executed Demon typically ends the game (Zombuul and Mastermind aside), you can in fact be reasonably confident that they are actually good!
If the town does successfully execute a Minion, the Minstrel ability will activate, and nobody will die that night. This does not mean that a night without death is any guarantee that your ability was the cause though. In Bad Moon Rising, there are as many reasons people don't die as there are reasons they do (e.g. Exorcist, Innkeeper, Po charging up)! To be sure your ability is the cause and the recent executee should be condemned, do some sleuthing - since you affect all abilities in the game, you should be able to find evidence that other abilities did not work as expected. As an example, characters like the Chambermaid or Gambler could get odd results. Additionally, nobody will be safe from execution (e.g. Pacifist, Devil's Advocate), and characters like the Tinker will not randomly die that day.
Gun for executions! The more executions, the better chance you have of getting a minion. Good players may be reluctant to execute anyone who isn't a demon suspect as the death count can be unexpected and heavy in Bad Moon Rising, but it is worth it to remove powerful Minions like the Assassin or Mastermind from play before they can do too much damage. Combined with the one night reprieve your ability grants on successful execution should be plenty of incentive to be more aggressive than usual!
Demons may be less likely to target you since they underestimate your power! Unless Minions are getting executed left and right, the [[[Minstrel|Minstrel]] is likely to survive a little longer than other townsfolk without protections, simply because a Demon is going to be much more worried about an Exorcist or a Tea Lady surviving for another night. Take full advantage of this blind spot - hopefully by the time the evil team realizes what a danger you are, a Minion or two has fallen!
If your evil team is a little more savvy, they may be keen to target you earlier, especially if the good team is zeroing in on some of the Minions. Keeping your identity under your hat for a few days can allow you to spring an unpleasant surprise on these clever sorts, since they won't know that you've blocked them from acting and exposed a demon until nobody gets to act. Your unexpected death can also be an indicator that you were hot on the trail of a minion that the evil team really didn't want confirmed as such.
The Minstrel is a good passive or 'cover' bluff. There is not much you need to do other than remind people that you are the Minstrel every so often. Because it is easy, some good players will pretend to be the Minstrel to cover the fact that they are the Exorcist, for example. You can do the same.
At least once per game, get the Demon to avoid killing of a night time. If no other deaths occur, this will simulate what occurs when a real Minstrels in-play and a Minion is executed. If you do this after a suspicious player is executed, not only do you confirm the group's suspicions in that player's nefariousness, but you also convince the group that they were drunk that night - which throws a huge spanner in the works for characters that rely on night-time information and feedback, such as the Exorcist, Chambermaid, Gambler and even the Moonchild.
If you are claiming to be the Minstrel, and a fellow evil player is executed, having the Demon kill as normal that night is a great way to convince the group that the executed player was good. You may not even need to say anything more than the fact that you are the Minstrel - and let them figure the rest out themselves.
Encourage executions - of players other than yourself and your Demon, of course.
If a real Minstrel is in play, and you are the Demon, choose not to kill every so often so as to throw the Minstrel off the scent. If a Minstrel is assuming that the group just executed a Minion when they in fact executed a Townsfolk, then not only will that Townsfolk look evil, but the rest of the good players will assume they were drunk tonight (due to the Minstrel ability), even though they were completely sober.