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Queen’s Ransom

DETECTION INSTEAD OF PAYMENT!

Once upon a time there was a queen who travelled through her realm, and one evening a ransom note was found in her place in the coach. As the king could not immediately pay the demanded ransom he hired inspectors and charged them to find the culprits. The jester had been a witness of the event and sells information. Players are inspectors, the first to deduce the culprit and the location of the queen wins the game.

Three locations and three suspects are laid out, the jester is placed in between. Then the evidence cards for suspects and locations are shuffled separately, two of the respective kinds are placed above and below each of the suspect and location cards. Each player receives five cards from the joint stack of number cards and special cards. The price for information bought from the jester is determined by a stack of cards; the top one is turned up and shows the necessary number of coins to buy information in the 1^st round. In your turn you can buy information, use a special card or pass. At the end of the turn you draw a card and can announce the solution. If you do so you control the cards: Suspect and Location with the highest evidence probability are correct. Evidence probability is determined by the sum of numbers on the evidence cards over and under the suspect and location cards, it can range from +3 to -3. If you are correct you have won; if not, you quit the game and the others continue to play.

Queen’s Ransom is another of those nice well-working little card games published by Z-Man, the fewer players the more tactical the game plays, the card texts need some knowledge of English.

Spieler         : 2-5

Alter            : ages 10 and up

Dauer           : ca. 20 min

Autor           : Kevin L. Jones

Grafik          : Gary Simpson

Titel englisch          : ident

Preis            : ca. 9,00 Euro

Verlag          : Z-Man Games 2010

www.zmangames.com

Genre                    : Cared game with a detective topic

Zielgruppe             : With friends

Mechanismen         : Use cards, assess information

Kommentar:

Standard topic

English language only

Cards have text

More tactical with fewer players

Vergleichbar:

Other detective games using cards

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