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Murder Mystery Mansion

A puzzling murder game

(MORD IM MONDSCHEIN)

In the very beautiful old mansion murder has happened and players are asked to solve the case. To do so you need to first set up the 3D mansion, on top of a kind of staircase that works as a deposit for the case cards, the pegs for marking your score are set at the bottom of the stairs. The cards are sorted by categories – there are suspects, weapons/methods used, motive and scene of the murder. In each category there are 6 different choices on double-sided cards: Suspects– Dagobert, Eugen, Robert, Adelheid, Verena, Liliane; Weapons/Methods –  Push off a staircase, Knife would, poison, gun electric shock, snake; Motiv – Money, Jealousy, Power, Fame, Love, Revenge; Scene of the Murder – Cupboard, Bathroom, Garden, Kitchen, Billiard Room, Bedroom.

Team A secretly chooses a card from each category and places it into the slits at the back of the house, this is the current case. Team B chooses one card per categary from the remaining cards and places them into the slits of the correspondng colors. Team A then tells who many categories are correct, but does only tell the number of correct choices, not which ones are correct. This is repeated till the case is solved. Depending on the number of steps remaining you score points and move your marker upstairs. Now the other team gets to solve a case. This is repeated till one team reaches the top of the staircase and wins the game.

An enthralling game, attractive components and a well-known mechanism: The abstract mechanism first used in Mastermind has been elegantly transferred into a murder hunt, still provides good training for logical thinking.

Spieler         : 2 or more

Alter            : ages 8 and up

Dauer           : ca. 30 min

Autor           : not cited

Grafik          : not cited

Titel            : Murder Mystery Mansion

Preis            : ca. 26,00 Euro

Verlag          : University Games 2010

                     www.universitygames.de

Genre                    : Game of deduction

Zielgruppe             : For families

Mechanismen         : Pose questiions, evaluate answers

Kommentar:

Game for Two or two teams

Very nice components

You score depending on the number of guesses

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Mastermind

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