ALLES GESPIELT

27^th Passenger

Tödliche Deduktion auf Schienen

On the train track from Manhattan to Staten Island assassins play a deadly game, in the midst of innocent passengers. As one of the assassins you want to be the only one who gets off the train at the terminal, to be the only survivor. To achieve this you must gather information and identify assassins without involving innocent passengers.

You play rounds comprising a Station phase and a Travel phase. In the Station phase you reveal identities of passengers in third position on the board and then discard them. Other passengers on the board are moved by one position and new passengers exit, that is, are placed on the board. Finally, you reveal the next active event. In the Travel Phase you play one action card from your hand face-down. Then action cards are resolved in sequence: 1) Investigation including tailing and pursuit of other passengers, using feature cards - 2) Assassinate - you name an identity; should one player hold this identity, he is eliminated from the game and you are rewarded with a Disguise card; otherwise you are eliminated from the game yourself - 3) Scheming with Intimidation and Observation - 4) Deception with Disguise or Low Profile. Each player keeps his card face-down until the respective phase for the card is resolved or you can use the card to deflect an action against yourself.

Basically a deduction game as many, but with cute details - you smell at passengers for clues or ask them for the sound of their voice. The exiting of passengers fits the mood, too, and - with the suitable action - offers quite a lot of information. An impressive modern interpretation of a standard topic.

Players: 3-6

Age: 10+

Time: 45+

Designer: Christos Giannakoulas, Manolis Zachariadis

Artist: Manolis Frangidis

Price: ca. 25 Euro

Publisher: Purple Games 2014

Web: www.purplegames.eu

Genre: Deduction

Users: With friends

Users: For experts

Version: en

Rules: en

In-game text: yes

Comments:

A very modern and well-done interpretation of a standard topic

Story fits the mechanism very well

Cute and witty details

Compares to:

All deduction games on hidden identities

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise):30

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 3

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0