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New Scotland Yard

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Murder has been done in the heart of London and players are investigators from Scotland Yard. The Pieces of Evidence Cards are randomly placed into the location envelopes and you extract the six Clue Cards for the case you chose; there are six different case sets.

In the first part of the game you roll the die and move your marker accordingly; when you reach an equipment spot you take the corresponding Forensic Kit Disc. When you have acquired all six discs you can start your investigation and move your marker to New Scotland Headquarters. From there you move your marker by dice roll to the different locations for clues where you can investigate a Piece of Evidence card with the help of the Clue Cards and your Forensic Kit. You note the results of your investigation on your case sheet. Pieces of evidence are DNS; Ballistic results, Blood Spots, Prints, Footprints and Fibers. If you have found and resolved all pieces of evidence you return to New Scotland Yard Headquarters, announce the case as solved and the game ends. All others check your conclusions and when you have assigned the pieces of evidence to correct locations you win; if not you are out of the game and the winner is the player with the most correctly assigned and resolved Pieces of Evidence.

This is a nice development of Clue! The Forensic Kit pieces - an UV lamp, a magnifying glass and a “Trace analyzer” - are cute and fun details, and due to the variation provided by the 12 locations there are enough cases for repeated fun for all the family. But you must work fast, because if you are too slow others can demand that you terminate your turn!

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 45+

Designer: John Adams

Art: not named

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: Winning Moves 2012

Web: www.winningmoves.de

Genre: Detection game

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de en

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Location/Clue combinations result in many different cases

Attractive components and gimmicks

Quick thinking/play necessary

Compares to:

Clue and other detection games

Other editions:

New Scotland Yard: Crime Scene, Crown & Andrews

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 2

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0