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For more than four centuries scholars have argued over the identity of the mysterious Dark Lady of William Shakespeare’s sonnets. According to the sonnets, the Dark Lady seduced the poet and held him in an agonised thrall while also conducting an affair with the Fair Youth whom Shakespeare also loved.
In Black Sonata you will find yourself in Shakespeare’s London, circa 1600, in pursuit of the shadowy Lady. A specially ordered deck of cards determines her hidden movements from place to place. You must deduce her location and then intercept her to catch a glimpse and gain a clue to her identity. You will need several clues to deduce her identity, but with each clue gained the Lady becomes harder to track. Black Sonata combines hidden movement and logical deduction into a unique solitaire steeped in literary history.
Can you finally solve English literature’s greatest mystery? Or will the Dark Lady elude you, melting from your grasp like a curl of smoke and promises?
Ages | 12+ |
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Players | Solo |
Play Time | 30m |
Designer | John Kean |
Mechanics | Action Queue, Push Your Luck, Point to Point Movement |
Theme | Deduction, Print & Play, Renaissance |
Publisher | (Web published), GateOnGames, Melmac Games, Side Room Games, TGG Games, Treetato Studio |
bami1020
[puzzle 7.8 replay 6.8 invest 7.8 solo 4] innovatively clever deduction solo, does start to feel repetitive after few plays despite infitinitely variable setup
aikoncwd
Uno de mis solitarios favoritos. Gran rejugabilidad, el setup inicial se puede hacer un poco pesado. Explota muy bien las mecánicas de camino oculto y deducción por pistas.
awjoel
The instructions are not as clearly written as one might hope but this is a good deduction game with great heart and a terrific theme- I enjoy it! Update: The fun of the new mechanics have worn off. I tried it again a few times and got very frustrated. I'm still not sure I'm playing it correctly, chasing after the lady is fiddly, and I find the deduction part tedious. Doesn't seem to be a good fit for the way my brain works.