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Get ready to enter the poor and dreary Whitechapel district in London 1888 – the scene of the mysterious Jack the Ripper murders – with its crowded and smelly alleys, hawkers, shouting merchants, dirty children covered in rags who run through the crowd and beg for money, and prostitutes – called "the wretched" – on every street corner.
The board game Letters from Whitechapel, which plays in 90-150 minutes, takes the players right there. One player plays Jack the Ripper, and his goal is to take five victims before being caught. The other players are police detectives who must cooperate to catch Jack the Ripper before the end of the game. The game board represents the Whitechapel area at the time of Jack the Ripper and is marked with 199 numbered circles linked together by dotted lines. During play, Jack the Ripper, the Policemen, and the Wretched are moved along the dotted lines that represent Whitechapel’s streets. Jack the Ripper moves stealthily between numbered circles, while policemen move on their patrols between crossings, and the Wretched wander alone between the numbered circles.
Ages | 14+ |
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Players | 2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players, 5 Players, 6 Players |
Play Time | 60m – 60m |
Designer | Gabriele Mari, Gianluca Santopietro |
Mechanics | Hidden Movement, Team-Based Game, Memory, Point to Point Movement, Secret Unit Deployment |
Theme | Bluffing, Deduction, Murder/Mystery, Post-Napoleonic |
Publisher | 999 Games, Devir, Hobby Japan, Nexus Editrice, Planplay, Sir Chester Cobblepot, Stratelibri, Swan Panasia Co., Ltd., Zhiyanjia, Edge Entertainment, Fantasy Flight Games, Galakta, Giochi Uniti, Heidelberger Spieleverlag, Korea Boardgames co., Ltd. |
AlexCLD
Juegazo. Primer juego de mesa de movimiento oculto que tengo en la colección y ha sido todo un éxito. Jugar como Jack el destripador es pura tensión: tratas de burlar a los policías creando rastros falsos, volviendo sobre tus pasos y buscando las calles más enrevesadas posibles. Como policía, la sensación de estar cercando al asesino, encontrar cada noche más y más pistas hasta el momento en el que haces una redada en una localización y Jack se encuentra, efectivamente, en esa casilla, es sin lugar a dudas una experiencia maravillosa. Juego muy recomendado, un setup que se hace en apenas 4-5 minutos y unas reglas muy sencillas. Ahora a por el Furia de Drácula.
2Many Hobbies
Only managed to get one play so far, and I massively underestimated just how quickly those police officers will swoop in on Jack after the murder. Definitely want to play some more. Also the components are beautiful.
agilmor
My wife is not much a gamer but she enjoys (true) crimes shows. She loved to hunt me down with this game so much! Actually, although there are 5 cops hunting Jack and several rules for the "main inspector", I think that this should be played only as a 2-players game. I tried to introduce Sniper Elite to replace this one, but it seems that we'll keep this one.