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Gangster City

Love or money?

Crime in town is getting out of hand and players are tasked with investigations of their own to solve cases. 54 case cards show symbols as information on four parts of the evidence: one of three suspects - Entertainer, Scientist, Thug; one of three weapons - Revolver, Knife, Syringe; one of three locations - Street, Theatre, Hotel Room; one of two motives - Love or Money. Each possible combination of those four evidence symbols is represented exactly once as a case card.  

Each player is dealt a case card and sets it down in a holder so that the front side faces the other players; thus. he himself sees the cases of all other players.

In your turn you can either investigate or arrest by voicing a suspicion. To investigate, you take up one of the three openly displayed case cards or draw one from the face-down pile and show the card to all players. They now tell the active player how many, but not which, evidence symbols on the drawn card correspond to his case card. Then the active player puts the card before him, facing the number of symbols stated by the other players. In this way, you can check received information later - if you did get wrong information, your cased is deemed to be immediately solved.

To arrest, you name all evidence symbols. If you are correct, you have solved the case, put the card face-down and draw a new case card. If you are first to solve two cases, you win the game.

Gangster City is a new permutation in the familiar genre of deduce-fact games in the tradition of Cluedo and others; the graphics are attractive, featuring clear symbols, and the rules are easy to follow for a neat little entertaining game.

Players: 1-6

Age: 10+

Time: 20+

Designer: Henrik Larsson, Kristian Amundsen Østby

Art: Fiore GmbH

Price: ca. 14 Euro

Publisher: HUCH! 2018

Web: www.hutter-trade.net

Genre: Deduction

Users: For families

Special: 1 player

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Standard basic mechanism

Very well varied

Attractive graphics

Simple rules

Compares to:

Perfect Alibi, Destination X, Cluedo ....

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 2

Memory (orange): 2

Communication (red): 3

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0