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Mystery Rummy

Fall 4: Al Capone

Mystery Rummy offers a new game concept in a book case box, combining the fascination of a classic crime puzzle with a strategic card game based on standard Rummy mechanisms.

In the 4^th case in the series the stories of Incorruptible Eliot Ness hunting Al Capone, the King of Chicago’s underworld, are enacted.

Players are part of the law enforcement troops who want to free Chicago from the vice of unscrupulous gangs. The game comprises cards for clues and cards for events. Players collect sets of at least three clues of the same color and lay them down as “information”. Events are played on their own for their result; they bring a strategic element to the game. A move comprises drawing cards from case stack or underworld stack (a must action), laying down sets of clues or evens (a can action) and discarding cards openly (a must action). You score points from the cards that are laid out on your own board. A round ends when one player has placed his last card into the underworld or when the case card stack has been used up.

If you discard your last card and have a complete set of Al Capone in your playing area (in a team game together with your partner) you prevent your opponents from scoring; otherwise all count their score in their own playing area. If you then reach 200 or more points you win the game.

The 4^th case again offers a good mix of collecting cards and the tactical use of event cards. Again mechanism and topic go well together and a special praise is due to the classy, elegant design of the game; all in all an attractive family game as an alternative for the standard Rummy.

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 40+

Designer: Mike Fitzgerald, Nick Sauer

Artist: Caroly van Duyn , Christine Conrad

Price: ca. 10 Euro

Publisher: Pegasus Spiele 2011

Web: www.pegasus.de

Genre: Set collecting card game

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de en

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Classy components

Well-known topic

Good family game

Attractive version of Rummy

Compares to:

Mystery Rummy Case 1 to 3

Other editions:

English edition at US Games Systems Inc.

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 1

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0