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Find den Mörder

Hunt the letters

A hunt for a murder on tiles, that is, for murder, because you do not look for a culprit, but for the word MÖRDER. The game comprises 36 letter tiles, seven tiles for each of the letters M, Ö, R, D and E and one victim tile. Those tiles are shuffled face-down and laid out in a 6x6 grid. In your turn you reveal one tile and win, if you then can form the word MÖRDER.

So - you turn over a tile. If you revealed the victim tile, you immediately turn over all horizontally, vertically and diagonally adjacent tiles. You may not rotate the tiles. If you uncovered a letter, you leave it open. In both cases you then try to form the Word MÖRDER using the open tiles - the letters must be horizontally, vertically or diagonally adjacent in the correct order, the orientation of the letters is of no importance. The chain of letters may cross itself, but you must use six tiles and cannot use the same letter twice. If you cannot form the word, your turn passes to the next player. If you are convinced that it will not be possible to form the word ever, you can declare your retreat - you quit the game for good. Only one player can choose this option, the others must go on playing. If nobody can form MÖRDER to the end, you win if you did quit. Otherwise whoever can form MÖRDER, wins instantly. Even more difficult versions can be downloaded from the website - you can, for instance, in your turn remove letters from the grid to collect letters for the word MÖRDER - the others can stop that with a veto.

A sophisticated and yet simple game with the challenging option to quit. An ideal game for the start or the end of a games evening!

Players: 2-4

Age: 10+

Time: 20+

Designer: Heinrich Glumpler

Artist: not named

Price: ca. 13 Euro

Publisher: Edition Erlkönig 2014

Web: www.erlkoenig.net

Genre: Search a word

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Sophisticated mechanism

Simple rules

Quitting is a risky and challenging option

Compares to:

Find die Liebe, spotting games in general, first game of this kind

Other editions:

Currently none

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Memory (orange): 3

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

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