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Dreck am Stecken

Who was the culprit?

Once again we are faced with murder; the owner of a night club has been murdered and that during a poker night of six gangsters, of all things. Every one of them has a skeleton in his closet; the police employs the oldest trick in the book and sets them against each other – the one who tells who has what skeleton in the cupboard will only mildly punished. And then the inspector leaves them alone and hands them a resume of the facts:

All players – in case there are fewer than six the difference is made up with virtual players – hold one culprit and one case card each and a schedule of the crime. In your turn you interrogate another player, from round 2 on also a fictive one. He must answer with yes or no, can lie and must put down the corresponding card for truth or lie before answering. You can only lie once! Once in the game you can use your „threat“ card and look at this discarded card; this is done after you asked the question and the question was answered. If you ask a virtual player you turn up the top card of the randomly shuffled truth/lie card stack; if lie is turned up you can look at the case card and thus can assign one crime to the culprit.

If someone wants to present a solution or when everybody has been asked four times, you must name your suspicions and then the case is solved. You score points for correct suspicions and lose points for wrong ones. If you achieve the highest score you win.

Dreck am Stecken is an attractive mix of standard mechanisms, the truth/lie cards are a nice detail, all in all tense entertainment for friends of the genre is provided.

Players: 3-6

Age: 12+

Time: 60+

Designer: Stefan Breuer

Artist: Lutz Eberle

Price: ca. 11 Euro

Publisher: Gmeiner Verlag 2011

Web: www.gmeiner-verlag.de

Genre: Crime puzzle with cards

Users: With friends

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: ja

Comments:

Part of the Crime Card Games Series

Logic thinking and good notes help

“Threat” should be used very purposely and not too early

Compares to:

Ather games in the series

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 3

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0