It's Saturday afternoon when the phone rang in my office. At the receiver, the police chief, who told me that one of the two bank robbers who stole 1.7 million euros on Monday, had been taken. Now it is my responsibility as a leading investigators to interrogate the perpetrator and thus to obtain information about the prey and the second robber.
"The Fugitive" is a two-person game in which the players determine simultaneously in one case each and alternately play the role of the investigator and the offender. Will you be able to ask the right questions and to reproduce the flight course of events?
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Tags: 2 player , deductive , GMEINER-Verlag , card game
In the shadow realm, there has long been a conflict. Werewolves and vampires fighting for supremacy. Again and again the people caught in the crossfire and try to achieve their own goals.
Hunters in the night, players take on the roles of vampires, werewolves and humans. However, none of the players know who is friend and who is foe. Doubt, combining spirit and conflict dominate the game that can win only a fraction at the end. It often happens that we unknowingly turns against his own allies and thus decrease the chances of their own victory enormous.
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Tags: deductive , cosmos
Yes / No - puzzles, called Lateral, have a very long game tradition. In most cases you slightly paradoxical-sounding crime stories of a "Riddler" recited, then the need to educate the participants of the round rate through clever questions.
In the appearing since 2004 successful Black Stories series has the issuing Moses Verlag 2008 "Black Stories, the game" was published. The "black stories" play the main role in this game, but there are other game elements. Schedule a knife on a rotating like a wheel of fortune. The knife tip indicates the action to be performed next. more »
Tags: deductive , Moses Verlag
Tobago? Is not in Trinidad? Strictly speaking, the island "Trinidad and Tobago" is off Venezuela in the southern Caribbean, and has always been a refuge for the pirates of the oceans. That there is a lot to salvage the treasures is self-
The thought probably games-author Bruce Allen and was the board game Tobago incident, in which it comes to the detection and mountains of treasure. For this, the players evaluate evidence from which they receive on (treasure) cards and drive their SUVs to the determined position on the game board.
This proves in its design not only beautifully designed, but also as a highly flexible, because it consists of three parts, the front and back can be combined. This creates plenty of interesting island landscapes unf therefore variable game histories.
The game itself is a deduction game. This means that many possible solutions to be reduced by playing off of cue cards to fewer and fewer opportunities to an unambiguous assignment of the location of the treasure, has emerged. more »
Tags: deductive , Zoch
A classic of literature and film history will be taken up as a board game theme: Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express" was the American publisher "Days of Wonder" is reason enough to develop a complex investigation game, while elements of well-known Deduction classics with new variants supplement.
Mystery Express initially feels like Cluedo squared. The reason is that unlike the classic every indication is present twice in the game as a card. Exception: The time of day. This is determined by a separate mechanism. So the killer is sought, the scene of the crime, the time of the crime, the murder weapon and the motive. These 5 cards are randomly determined and placed in an envelope under the Schedule.
As far as the Cluedo - similarity, because now the journey begins and Mystery Express begins. We board the train in Paris. Via Strasbourg, Munich, Vienna and Budapest, the ride on the Orient Express brings us finally to Istanbul. Thus, the circular system is explained, because each station a city represents an assessment carried out round. As "energy used for each different driving lessons arising between two stations. Takes a part of Stage 4 hours 4 points are available to all players available that they can use to carry out the investigation actions. more »
Tags: Days of Wonder , deductive
It is once again so far. A new game to the table. But somehow you missed a detail in the explanation and asks all the time, "What am I doing here" for exactly this situation, the game developed "The 3 Commandments" the brothers Lamont and Friedemann Friese. Players assume the roles of a secret order and must successfully participate as possible High Priestess or a novice to the so-called rituals.
Which appeared in the publishing Bewitched Games Game contains besides the obligatory Schedule wooden stones in white, brown and black, three round red wooden markers, a set of cards with red and green backs and a block of points to note.
The game is played in as many rounds as players participate. In each round, a player is High Priestess. This leads to the current ritual. For this purpose it draws two cards from the deck with the red and two green cards from the deck. Of these, it chooses three cards, one card a ban and two cards a bid. Then the High Priestess distributed the artifacts (wood blocks) on the sacred circle as genennten on the board and you can start the ritual. more »
Tags: Games BeWitched , deductive
Rumors always spread like wildfire and even some of the most original story in the end is hardly obtained. Even in the current game "Schinderhannes" of clicker games are some facts mixed up. The life of the legendary John Buckler, called "Schinderhannes" is to be reconstructed. It is indeed known what acts he has committed, but no one can say so more accurately, what's happening where in detail. The player will now bring order to this chaos.
The game includes a set of "information cards", 4 wooden males to mark the points, a beautifully illustrated and coherent game plan and each Tatscheiben 4 in 4 categories with 5 markers associated suspicion. The rules contained in addition to the rules of the game contains also a readable historical appendix, which gives more information about the event once again. Read more »
Tags: clicker games , deductive
In the shadow realm, there has long been a conflict. Werewolves and vampires fighting for supremacy. Again and again the people caught in the crossfire and try to achieve their own goals. 
