Some additional information (thanks for reminding me of these in the comments!): - Asking something on the ouija board gives an interaction, thus it can also give EMF 5! A good strategy to use this is asking a bunch of low sanity drain questions far from the ghost room to test for EMF 5 safely. - BE VERY CAREFUL while lighting the summoning circle, since it costs 16% sanity to light each candle this means that by the time you're lighting the final candle the ghost might have already started a normal hunt. If you continue lighting the final candle it will teleport the ghost (that is already hunting) to the summoning circle which will probably get you killed. So make sure to listen or check if the ghost has already started a hunt before lighting the final candle. - For the Summoning Circle: if 4 candles are lit and you light the final candle BUT you don't have enough sanity for it this will result in a very dangerous situation: the ghost will teleport to the summoning circle and instantly start the hunt there (skipping the ghost event). This means the ghost will not be visible because it's in the grace period before the hunt. So if you don't see the ghost at all after lighting the final candle RUN AWAY IMMEDIATELY as the hunt has already started. - For the Tarot Cards: CJ recently told us that the tower card also increases activity for a few seconds. But as I say in the video, the tower card is extremely bugged at the moment so it rarely does anything. But in theory it should be good.

Where are you? Are you here? Are you close? Are you friendly? Are you french? Are you pizza? Are you grandma?

Extremely rare, but if you had Ghost Orbs and wishing for Knowledge with the Monkey Paw rules out Ghost Orbs, then you know for certain that the ghost is The Mimic.

I just realized, The Mimic is the only ghost that can become YOUNGER during a contract. If it mimics an older Thaye, its age should go back down to normal afterwards, and if it mimics a younger Thaye, then its age will be lower when mimicking it. So getting a YOUNGER age on the Ouija Board when asking for age the second time is hard evidence for The Mimic.

Insym: *That's so nice you can get one free hunt* Me: *everytime there is a hunt, i loose a member of my team*

I love asking the flavor questions on the board. Particularly the questions: "Where did you die?" "Why are you here?" The question asking where they died gives a random room in the house. Makes for a funny version of Ghost CLUE! The ghost DROWNED in the BLEASEDALE ATTIC and has remained TRAPPED ever since!

Two things you missed for the Summoning Circle: 1 - Lighting all candles during a hunt will cause the ghost to teleport to the Summoning Circle without getting stunned and continue hunting; 2 - If 4 candles are lit, you are guaranteed to be able to light the last candle, but lighting it without enough sanity will cause the ghost to hunt instantly without getting stunned (Granted, for that second one, people might have guessed since you said that's what happens when you use that trick to light the last 2 candles without enough sanity.).

For the Ouija Board, even if the board is outside the map, if the planchette is still on the board when you walk away from it, it'll break and trigger a cursed hunt for the players still inside the map. I had a "teammate" who would always do this...

Imagine if you ask how many people are in this room when the ghost is twins, the board shows 3 instead of 2.

One thing that's nice to remember about the Ouija Board is that any question you ask that could be used to find the ghost's location (Other than outright asking "Where are you?") will cost 20%. So, "How many people are in this room?", "Are you close?", "Are you here?" will all cost 20%.

I think the “Am I Insane” question should be ghost specific. For example, it would say yes if you are in the ghost’s hunting range, and no if you are above it. And also take away maybe because it’s useless

1:09:24 I think I’d be funny if they made it when you ask “I wish to see the ghost” it’ll trigger an event, then a hunt, but after it’ll make hallucinations of the ghost

I think the Marco Polo question triggers a interaction where the ghost is. Like when you asked Marco. The car alarm went of during the Polo answer

I honestly think a better result for the "I wish for knowledge" would be that it GIVES you a correct evidence in the journal, but also hides another (like Nightmare/Insanity mode) And for "I wish for sanity", I think a better way for it to work is that it increases everyone's sanity by a certain amount, but as a result of the wish sanity medication doesn't work anymore (in addition to the increased drain rate)

I think it's kinda weird that Death initiates a hunt while The Tower triggers an interaction, I feel like that should be the other way around, or even have The Tower be the instant death card instead of The Hanged Man, considering that Death generally symbolizes change (which could be interpreted as a ghost changing an item or the environment by moving something, writing in the book, etc.), while The Tower usually means disaster (instantly dying would qualify). I guess either the devs don't know much about Tarot, or they figured most players wouldn't and might get confused as to why the Death card doesn't do something to directly put your life in danger.

Over an hour of Insyms phasmo information? Yes please!

On the ouija board, my entier group was asking questions with me in the truck grabbing things, then I come in saying "would you mind if i put a crucifix here?" and the ghost responded to that with "maybe" after not listening to several other questions

Amazing guide for all the cursed posetions! Only think you missed is that you can get emf from the oujia board and sometimes get emf5 from it if the ghost has that evidence, other than that super detailed guide I watched it all and learned a ton! Thank you insym❤❤❤

A cool thing about Tarot Cards, if they want to add a new one, or to replace the Hermit or something, is put a 'Wisdom' card in. Picture could be a bunch of books or a college hat or something like that. What that one would do is cross off a ghost from your book, kind of like the monkey paw does. Even if you had 10 of those in the deck, it could only cross out 10 ghosts, out of 24. That's not bad. Obviously it weakens if they add new ghosts, but it's still useful. It *could* help figure out a hard combination when you're missing evidences. Of course, the 'cost' or 'risk' is to still pull a hangman... but I feel having something like that could break the monotony of getting a deck like 'tower, tower, hermit, fool, tower, wheel of fortune, tower, devil, tower, hermit'. They should do a suggestion contest for a new tarot card every halloween, or every anniversary of the creation of Phasmo (though we just passed it). Not only ideas, but art as well (gives CJ a break!).

One the best things of the music box is that you can use it and drop and go outside, you have enought time to get out of the house(if you are in front of the door). I did it like 4 times while my friends were in the house. I got some iconic moments. Like, "Oh the ghost sing" and 2 seconds after he died, "WTF, the ghost just hunt with the crucifixe(tier 1 and 2), did you placed it correctly?". For the investigation, the music box is kinda bad, but to troll, is one of the best itens.

It’d be a bit funny if the hide and seek question didn’t trigger a fatal hunt. Like imagine you do hide and seek but if the ghost finds your location they whisper “found you” and the hunt ended @Insym

A good way to remember the mirror's sanity cost without having to think of "whichever is greater" is to think of it as having two costs: 1. Each use drains 20%, and 2. After 2.67 seconds, sanity will continue to drain at a rate of 7.5% per second.

"Responds to" info is one of the most useless thing in the game. It doesn't matter. If you are in Singleplayer, it's absolutely useless. In Multiplayer, you can just ask everyone to get out of the room, because the ghost will respond regardless, or ask the Spirit Box questions yourself, while the rest of the team is bringing in equipment. That's how we do it anyway.

I wish the Tarot cards were a full set of Tarot cards. here is an idea for the missing arcanas -Magician: Changes the ghost room. -The empress: 1%. Burns the current deck. Spawns a new deck. Adds one "Hanged man", removes all "High priestess". Removes all empress. -The emperor: Changes one of the remaining cards to high priestess or hanged man. -The hierophant: 2% Triggers a cursed hunt, destroys the decks, spawns another cursed item except tarot cards. -Lovers: The ghost will have infinite detection radius for your equipment and voice. -The chariot: 2% Gives you 25% movement speed for 3 minutes. -Strength: Rare. Turns on the breaker and makes the ghost unable to turn it off for 3 minutes. -Temperance: Turns off the breaker. If the breaker is is off, breaks the breaker. -The star: Rare. Decreases sanity by 20% Increases the sanity pill sanity restoration effect by 15%. -Judgement: 1% Teleports everyone to the truck and ends the game. Hope your current guess is correct :) -The world: Changes the weather randomly.

I hope the Shade's interaction with the Summoning Circle and the Music Box becomes a feature. It's just nice. I also hope it is a thing that happens with the Monkey Paw as well.

I once was lighting the summoning circle and it started a hunt far away. I pulled out my camera and took a pic, but started hearing footsteps and I just turned and RAN. First time a ghost has started hunting while doing the summoning circle. Luckily I had a smudge so I escaped but holy shit it sped up my heartrate 2x.

With the ouija board sanity questions, the wiki does actually tell you what each sanity % range the answer means. Sanity questions also drain 5% per question asked. If you ask "What is my sanity?" you'll get "Healthy" (over 80%), "Good (60-80%), "Average" (40-60%), "Bad" (20-40%), or "Awful" (less than 20%). This one doesn't have a text option, but if you're using voice, it's probably the most useful variation. "How crazy am I?" and "How insane am I?" will give "Not very" (over 50%), "Very" (25-50%), or "Insane" (less than 25%). "Am I insane?" will give "No" (over 90%), "Maybe" (20-90%), or "Yes" (under 20%). I've been working on making a written guide for myself and my friends, so I've been referencing the wiki and your videos quite a lot over the past couple weeks. These guides definitely help make the process much easier! Edit: Apparently I didn't watch quite far enough before commenting. Sorry about that!

Additional tips for the summoning circle: - I highly recommend to take the summoning circle photo before you use the summoning circle, and I would try to avoid using the salt directly in the center of the circle as well. It is very easy to unknowingly get a full body, dead center, ghost photo that you end up finding out was actually an off center, good distance away, summoning circle photo because the game prioritized the summoning circle above the ghost. Same thing with the disturbed salt.
 - What you can do is get right up in the ghosts face to try and avoid that possibility, by cutting anything on the ground out of the photo, but then you can run into the child model which can complicate things unless you crouch and look up.
 - And as for the salt, I like to set them all down with one of two goals in mind: place the pile near the circle in an area the ghost is likely go during its hunt (Bottom of the stairs in Tanglewood), or next to the circle in an area where the ghost will walk to you at the beginning of the hunt (Stand at the bottom of the stairs in Willow, and the ghost will walk though the salt to get to you at the beginning of the hunt [Just leaving it there would likely work, but you get the concept]).

51:38 "Knock knock?" *ghost standing in the corner menacingly* "Whos there"

Honestly, the sheer glee you show when talking about this game is more than enough reason to watch the whole thing.

Found a music box, accidentally activated it, dropped because got scared, got insta hunted and killed. 10/10

Thank you sooo very much for the guide. I really love this type of content for Phasmo coming from you coz this really helps a lot about the game. Hopefully next guides will be GHOSTS, ITEMS & MAPS EXPLAINED!

I appreciate how much effort you put into your videos. I literally watch every minute, even if they are 4 hours long. Such a pillar to the Phas community. I love to keep supporting on twitch as well! You rock Insym !

I learned a few things from the cursed objects, like some of the effects of the monkey paw I didn't know. The amount of sanity per summoning circle candle, or the mirror thing where if you only hold it for a second or however long you can it has a huge reduction in sanity. Also really like some of the monkey paws abilities that I didn't know about them. Thanks for all the information! It was a fun watch

A nice hour and fourty-three minute video before bed. At 6:28 am. No sleep.

INSYM you're a real one making this for all the new players coming in

The way you explain phasmophobia made it much easier for me and my friends to play. Thank you!

26:04 pulling up the journal to identify and lock in the ghost type during a hunt with the ghost right up in your face is the ultimate flex on Phasmophobia XD

You should also make an appendix to the monkey paw showing where to find the possible wishes. Yeah, the Text thingy will spoil it for a new player and give it easy access, but for players who wish to do it the "right way", there are the clues on where to find the wishing papers and adding them to your collection (which is preserved in the journal, right?)

wishing for safety could just teleport you to the van and start a hunt

My goodness, Insym you are on a roll banging out videos/doing live streams. Good stuff! Ty for this guide, as with your other ones I always learn quite a few helpful tidbits. :)

Ayo thanks for this. Been getting into the game recently and your guides are a literal lifesaver

Bro, how the hell is this man finding out what ghost it is from basically one interaction every time... Damn, like, this may be the one game that I genuinely believe gets worse the *more* you play it, it seems to just take the mystery and horror elements out of it and you're left with just ghost GeoGuessr, like, high tier phas is just, "oh, he breathed? Gotcha I know this one, BAM! got it."

I am slowly becoming an encyclopedia for this game. Thank you.

Thankyou so much for the guide again!! Watching this with friends and there are afew new things we learned 💕

I remember when I was done using the ouiji board, i walked away from it without saying "goodbye" and my friend heard me scream from outside of the door lol.

Honestly the best guide ive seen so far. Amazing content. you got another sub. :)

played with the tarot once. got moon, sun, moon, priestess, hanged man, death. had to leave after that since the death card caused the hunt that killed my partner and i was alone.

This is so helpful. I didn’t know you could place the music box down with it still playing.

I would love to see a single video with all the cursed possesions locations, since most of the videos are separated videos of a specific map, and also most of them don't have Monkey Paw added in them, so i would appreciate if you do that great video insym, keep the good work!

My Bro will just run around every map when we load and will immediately hunt for the Terot Cards if they exist and will immediately start pulling

Your guides are pure gold man, thanks for them!. Saw this one already on stream, but it released here just in time to save me a perfect game^^

Thx Awesyme for making my day a little bit better again. Love your stuff. ❤

Just finished watching the beginners guide and ghost guide, and now this? Hell yeah

I always didn’t use these as I was worried about hunts but now I’m more confident! Thank you!

Keep up the good work man, my friends and i are new to phasmophobia so this video helped us alot

My favorite is the Voodoo doll, i even got one from Makeship when they was producing their limited run

Great video, and really helpful, Ive kinda avoided a lot of the cursed possessions cause I didnt understand them well and was kinda afraid id just throw or something but knowing what I want to do with them going into it will definitely help. Great stuff

So for the "I wish for knowledge", if you use it and one of the evidence you supposedly got gets ruled out isn't that basically telling you it's 100% a Mimic that changed in the meantime?

Thanks, incredibly thorough! I enjoy your videos immensely.

I recently was playing a game on the new sanity system patch. I stayed in the light basically the entire game and the ghost was being so stubborn. I assumed it was a demon because it was early hunting while I had been in the light for so long. I couldn’t find the ghost so I used the mirror and it immediately broke. Turns out it was a moroi and that whisper I got early in the game was a curse. Joy. I ended up dead in the prison hallway when it sped up extremely fast. Why are Morois so broken.

i didnt like old phasmo too much but i like your videos and your guides even if i dont play it i might pick it up with a few friends again seems to be a lot better i watched the ghost one too amazing

29:11 "You left this mortal realm" "Yeah, that's not what I meant though when I said 'I wish to leave.'" Yeah, that sounds about right for a monkey's paw wish.

I love these guides cuz you give those situations and then show it too. You cover all 2/3 ways of learning cuz you don't have a written guide.

I love how lights flick once and Insym is instantly like Ok listen here yo Stupid Mare. And he's right about the ghost.

The 'I wish for Knowledge" wish on the monkey paw is a lot more powerful in multiplayer as the other player(s) are still functional, and the negative effects can be partially mitigated with a combination of the tier 3 crucifix and the night vision headset. Despite this, it is still only recommended to use it if absolutely necessary.

thank you so much!! there are a couple ones i didnt fully understand

Thank you for this. I love this game. You’re very easy to listen to.

My ability to pull death cards and heart pins on the first use is staggering, killed many team mates with it.

Awesome tutorial man. Thanks so much

The ghost watching you vandalize the property faster than it can cause an interaction

Very helpful video 👍 I started playing yesterday and this tought me a lot

The Summoning Circle is also pretty useless because if you don’t have a lighter yet then you’re screwed

this video was so helpful, thank you!!!!

I loved it i watched the whole video and all my questions were answered ,. Everything i wasn´t sure of im sure of now. Thanks for the video i really enjoied it

1:50 best way to learn where they are is to make a custom difficulty with a friendly ghost, and all cursed object

Now we need an updated Ghost guide!

Very useful especially for me who just got back to the game after a while.

AFAIK the cursed hunt that triggers initially has the reduced grace period. But subsequent hunts only have the increased duration and do not retain the reduced grace period.

Thx for your time, i love your dedication

I just came back to this video because I played 3 rounds on tanglewood in a row with the music box. It immediately started a hunt all three rounds and killed me instantly. Good to know I’m not an idiot and it’s just a bug that happens. The fourth round with the music box worked at least😅

I know this isn't a popular opinion but my favorite cursed possession is probably the spirit box just because I love music boxes irl and I also love the sound of the ghosts humming in-game too

ur still the fukin best every time I come back to ur videos when I have the time

Thank you for the tip! Also looking very beautiful! Would you ever consider making a written note/paper on the differences and secrets of the ghosts?

Thanks so much, found the video idea very helpful!

I knew about the tarot cards but everything else was new to me. It was enjoyable :D

Thx dud this helped a lot

Super helpful video. Subbed 👍

It's always nice to review tips from the game because I forget it a lot when I'm scared lol.

for the OUIJA board you can ask it its favourite room e.g boiler room, this will show you where its cursed, different to the where are you question.

58:20 Just rember that even in a hunt you have to say goodbye to the bord, otherwise it will break by you running away (from the ghost). But I am not certain, how it affects the ongoin hunt.

Even timestamps, look at this goat! I'll watch the whole video anyway...

The sanity drain on the summoning circle should be maybe 5 per at most, it's nice but it's nowhere near as powerful as the other cursed items. It gives you no info just shows you the ghost (And not where it is) then starts a hunt

Magoroku sent me to this for help. You're amazing....intelligent and hilarious thank you

Beautiful summary, Master Insym:) Many times I think would be nice to have a fake player to showing only the screens in the car;)

Thanks for the video! I'm still pretty new to playing myself, though I've watched your videos for a long time. I feel more confident using the cursed items now! Btw, are you going to do another ghost guide, or is the one you did back in February still valid?

*Insym:* The sun card is the worst card!. *Hanged Man:* You forgot about me

another full ghost guide please! (maybe there is a current relevant one, I just haven't been paying attention)

17:54 literal chills, I was terrified like it was me sitting in the closet😂😅

Hi phasmo noob here this helped out alot thank u for making this