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cooperative culprit-hunting

A thief is chased, a witness is found, but he can only give an opinion on habits, preferences and opinions of the wanted culprit.

12 Suspect cards are drawn and displayed in a 3x4 grid, the rest is set aside. One player is the witness, he protocols the investigation, hides his eyes behind the witness cap and draws a “Guilty” card which determines a position in the grid and thus the culprit. All other players are investigators.

A round comprises Questioning, Trial and Verdict. For questioning an investigator asks a question from a card. The Witness must answer YES or NO and puts the card underneath the corresponding card. Any other way to answer - be it words, movements or signs - are allowed. The questions do not ask for visible facts of the suspect card, but ask if “he or she is carrying a smart phone?” or if “he or she is a fan of science fiction?” In the trial phase, all discuss to who the answer could relate and at least one suspect must be pronounced innocent; the cards for suspects named as innocents are turned over, more than one in a round is possible. If the culprit has not been turned over, you multiply the number of innocents of the round with the round number and note the result in the trial phase as duration of the investigation. Then a new round begins. If you turn over the culprit, all lose together; if the culprit is the last open card, all win together.

A party game with some risk - witnesses’ answers are based on their personal impressions of the suspects and thus of course on their personal prejudices, opinions or preferences! If you keep that in mind, you can play one of the best party games of recent years.

Players: 3-18

Age: 8+

Time: 20+

Designer: Paolo Mori

Artist: Alessandro Costa

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: Heidelberger Spieleverlag 2015

Web: www.heidelbaer.de

Genre: Party, social deduction

Users: With friends

Special: Many players

Version: de

Rules: cn de en es fr it nl pl

In-game text: yes

Comments:

A very unusual, fun, well-working party game

Answers are based on subjective opinions

Unusual mechanism of “social deduction”

Not suitable for all groups of players

Compares to:

First game of its kind

Other editions:

Cranio Creations (en, it), CMON (en), Planplay (cn), 999 Games (fr, nl), Lucrum Games (pl), Edge Entertainment (es).

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 3

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 3

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0