Deadline

Board Game Geek Reviews

1. 6 out of 10

   Kanzler von Moosbach

   Ein nettes Brettspiel, recht schnell erklärt, der Schwierigkeitsgrad ist angenehm, die Fälle sind kleinere Kriminalfälle, es geht mehr um das richtige Ausspielen von Karten als um detektivische Fähigkeiten. Bisserl Glücksabhänigg.

2. 7.5 out of 10

   enzo622

   Two games in and the arrow is pointing up for this game. The card play is more interesting than I expected, and after losing badly at the second Easy case, I’m excited for the challenge of the Normal and Hard ones. You play cards to the table to create a chain of required symbols. If you get all the required symbols, you get to flip over the clue and read it. The idea here is to read as many clues as possible so as to correctly answer the case questions at the end of the game. Once you can’t play a card to the current symbol chain, you have to drop out. When you drop out, if you have a Plot Twist (negative effect) card in your hand, you have to play it, so you want to avoid dropping out at all costs. While it’s hard to plan since you can't discuss the exact nature of the cards you hold, you can play cards that just tread water (don't add or remove any symbols) which then leads to opening up an opportunity for someone else to play. Or to flip a hot tip over to its active side. Two or more hot tips confers a bonus action such as draw a card and is a way to keep from having to drop out of the round. So I found more angles here than I expected there to be, and the cases seem to require leaps of deductive logic that have already proven challenging. I would caution, however, that 2P-3P is the sweet spot for the game. Playing with four felt unsatisfying because you have a hand of three cards instead of four or six and the choices felt too limited. Playing with a hand of four was much more fun

3. 7 out of 10

   arglik

   Played once and felt conflicted. Probably should play again but in theory it sounded more fun that in practice.