Criminals and Detectives

Criminals and Detectives

2–8
Players
30
Minutes
7
Age

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About the Game

There is Estonian map on the game board with 10 cities and 2 crime-scenes per city. The cards have city on the upper part of the card and evidence on bottom part of the card.

Player move around board and make actions according to their character. If criminal plays a card with the city he stands, he makes a crime to this city and draws one face-down evidence tile (footprint, fingerprint, dna, witness) to avaialable crime-scene of that city. Detective may visit that crime-scene and may turn the tile face-up by playing a card with that city. If criminal has 3 or more face-up evidences, detective may catch him and improson by playing 3 cards matching with the evidences of that criminal.

Objective for criminals is to make 8 crimes to win. Objective for detectives is to investigate crime-scenes, gather enough evidences and catch all criminals to win. With combinations players may remove or add evidence-tiles to crime-scenes.

Both character-types may deal and exchange cards with their partners.

Contents:

game board 8 character cards 55 action cards 32 evidence tiles 32 crime tokens in 4 colors 4 criminals in 4 colors 4 detectives in 4 colors

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