Style: Deduction and Problem Solving

Smiles and Daggers is a language independent card game that tasks players with reading opponents’ empty promises and fake smiles. Following a mechanism that is similar to the Prisoner’s Dilemma, one of the most famous models of Game Theory, players have to collect a certain number of gold coins. In order to do that, they have to bilaterally challenge each other, while other players can bet on challenges’ outcome. By working together, collecting gold coins is easier. Nevertheless, eliminating other players’ cards is sometime necessary.

Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective is a cooperative game where the players try to solve mysterious cases by walking the streets in search of clues. Unravel the string of intrigues, answer a series of questions, and compare your detective skills to those of the master sleuth himself, Sherlock Holmes. Jack the Ripper & West End Adventures is a standalone game featuring 4 new cases based on the infamous Jack the Ripper murders, plus 6 classic Sherlock Holmes cases, reworked specifically for this game. Designers: Gary Grady, Suzanne Goldberg, Jérôme Ropert Artwork: Pascal Quidault, Arnaud Demaegd, Neriac, Bernard Bittler Contents: 1 map of London, 1 map of Whitechapel, 10 case booklets, 10 newspapers, 1 London directory, 1 rulebook

In Letters from Whitechapel , one player assumes the role of Jack the Ripper while the other players assume the roles of detectives pursuing him in Victorian London. Jack the Ripper must outmaneuver the detectives in the tangles streets of the Whitechapel District to escape after committing his horrible murders. Meanwhile, the detectives must use clever deduction and superior numbers to hunt Jack the Ripper down before he can kill again or elude them forever. Contents: 1 Rulebook 1 Game Board 6 Reference Sheets 4 Jack's Letter Sheets 5 Head of the Investigation Tiles 5 Special Movement Tokens 16 Wooden Tokens 12 Wooden Pawns 1 Jack the Ripper Screen 1 Pad of Jack the Ripper Move Track Sheets 27 Plastic Markers

In Coup: Rebellion G54 (G54), the last player with influence in the game wins, with influence being represented by face-down character cards in your playing area. Before each game players choose five character roles from a randomized deck. Characters have a unique variable power, and the deck is formed by three iterations of each role for fifteen cards total. Coup: Rebellion G54 is a new standalone game that takes the same simple Coup mechanisms and rules, but with a variable deck of 25 characters, and in each game you choose to play with five out of the 25, so the relative power and advantage of each character changes from game to game. This is more of a gamer’s game than the original Coup as you can create a deck to increase bluffing, deduction, negotiation or luck.

The two rival spymasters know the secret identities of 25 agents. Their teammates know the agents only by their CODENAMES. The teams compete to see who can make contact with all of their agents first. Spymasters give one-word clues that can point to multiple words on the board. Their teammates try to guess words of the right color while avoiding those that belong to the opposing team. And everyone wants to avoid the assassin. Codenames: win or lose, it’s fun to figure out the clues.

The classic Choose Your Own Adventure series comes to life in this new narrative adventure game. Will you survive the House of Danger ? Discover a thrilling adventure investigating criminal activity and a dark history in your town. Haunted by the mystery of the missing owner of the Marsden mansion, you decide to take the case on yourself. With your psychic senses and skills as a detective, you're confident you can solve it. Explore the mansion and unravel its secrets. Cross paths with ghostly figures, navigate a secret lab, and conquer challenges. Think carefully as you choose which paths to investigate. What will YOU choose?

Case #1 The Witch Cult Murders Walpurgis Night, May Eve, is always a nightmare in witch-haunted Arkham. There are bad doings, and a child or two frequently goes missing. This year, Miskatonic University students engaged in occult studies have been turning up dead. Arkham Police, in deference to your unusual expertise, have asked for your help to get to the root of the matter. Time is of the essence: after Walpurgis Night the trail will grow cold and the culprits will retreat to the shadows until the next Witches Sabbat, when the next cycle of deaths will begin. As private investigator Howard Lovecraft, you will investigate events based on the stories The Dreams in the Witch House (1933), The Thing on the Doorstep (1933) and The Unnamable (1923).

Arkham Noir is a solitaire card game inspired by the interconnected stories of H.P. Lovecraft and other authors, re-imagined as noir detective stories. Each case stands alone. In Case #2 - Called Forth By Thunder, as private investigator Howard Lovecraft, you will investigate events based on the stories "The Lurking Fear" (1923) and "The Diary of Alonzo Typer" (1938). New elements such as Storm Cards and Formula Card are introduced, which will force players to face new challenges and play differently.

Patchwork Americana is the new edition of the highly acclaimed game by renowned designer Uwe Rosenberg. The original Patchwork is one of Lookout’s biggest hits, and this Americana Edition brings the same great two-player fun in an all new style. Patchwork Americana introduces new art and components inspired by the quilting communities of the United States. In the game, each player works to create a beautiful, Americana-inspired patchwork quilt out of the available patches by placing them on their 9x9 game board, looking to avoid leaving any empty spaces. The most beautiful quilt wins!

Blood Bound is a game of deception and deduction for six to twelve players. Divided into two opposing clans and operating in secrecy, players attack, conspire, and scheme in an effort to tell friend from foe and ultimately bring down the leader of the rival clan. Full of suspense and surprise, Blood Bound plunges players into a world of suspicion, uncertainty, and high intrigue.

Rare Factory Sealed Copy Fury of Dracula is a gothic board game of cunning, terror, and deduction. It is playable by 2-5 players in 2-4 hours. It is 1898. Eight years ago, the most evil Count Dracula traveled to London in a bid to create an empire of Un-Dead! In this he was stopped by a small band of God-fearing people who managed to thwart his plans and destroy him within the very shadow of Castle Dracula itself. Or so they thought … Somehow the Lord of Vampires has survived to plot his terrible revenge upon an unsuspecting living world. And now, nearly a decade later, he is abroad once more spreading his vile plague. This time, however, he has learned from his past mistakes and is acting with even greater cunning than before. Many scientific men do not understand the terrible force behind the recent spate of mysterious deaths, but there are a few who do. Of this handful, four have joined together once more, bound by oath, to finish properly a job started eight years ago. This time Count Dracula will be destroyed! But Dracula is no fool. He will not be an unwitting target this time. There is an old score to settle and the Count has vowed that the mortal fools shall know the Fury of Dracula!

The snow lies thick and heavy on the ground, but that hasn’t stopped the dead who prowl the town and clatter against the walls of your colony. You’re only safe behind the walls, but you need the supplies outside… and can you really trust your fellow survivors? Even if they’re not crazy, or trying to burn the colony to the ground, everyone has something they can’t live without. Dead of Winter is a story-centric board game that puts you and up to four other players together in the tortured aftermath of the zombie apocalypse. The dead are pushing in on every side, but mere survival is not enough. You’ll have to venture beyond the confines of the colony to gather vital supplies, resolve crises, keep up morale, and fulfill your own secret objective. Whether you plan to betray the colony or lead it to safety, you can’t trust anyone. Everyone has a secret…

As volunteers for a medical research study, you report to a lab as instructed. But no one is there except for you! Vapor rises from a test tube and you start feeling dizzy. When you wake up again, the door is locked, and you discover a notebook and a strange disk ... Ages: 12+ Author: Inka & Markus Brand Number of Players: 1 to 4 Length of Play: 1 to 2 hours Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 7.1 x 1.7 in. Product Weight: 0.6 lbs Manual Dimensions: 4.7 x 6.7 in. Batteries Required: N/A Country of Origin: Germany Year Released: 2017 2017 Kennerspiel des Jahres Winner

The excursion to the Valley of the Kings is the highlight of your vacation to Egypt. As you crawl through the narrow passageways, you lose the rest of your tour group. You enter a mysterious burial chamber. A massive stone door closes behind you. On the floor lie a dusty notebook and an ancient disk ... Ages: 12+ Author: Inka & Markus Brand Number of Players: 1 to 4 Length of Play: 1 to 2 hours Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 7.1 x 1.7 in. Product Weight: 0.6 lbs Manual Dimensions: 4.7 x 6.7 in. Batteries Required: N/A Country of Origin: Germany Year Released: 2017 2017 Kennerspiel des Jahres Winner

The gaslight streets of Victorian London. Horse-drawn broughams, hansoms, and dog-carts rattle over the cobblestone streets, pulling their passengers through the pea-soup fog. On every street corner, you pass booksellers, clubs, prisons, music halls, doctors, tea houses, and steamship companies. Yet in the shadows and dark alleys of this great city, horrible and cunning crimes are committed daily, confounding the policemen of Scotland Yard. Still, even the most ingenious crime is only a puzzle for the world's only consulting detective—Sherlock Holmes!

In a quick game of risk and deduction, can you outwit your friends and earn the trust of the noble Princess? The noble Princess is looking for an ideal partner and confidant to help with her royal duties when she one day assumes the throne. You must prove your worth and gain her trust by enlisting allies, friends, and family of the Princess to carry a letter of intent to her. Can you earn the Princess’s trust and become her confidant? Enjoy the classic game of risk and deduction in a whole new way! The new edition of Love Letter features a couple new characters, stunning new illustrations, and gameplay now up to 6 players!

Codenames: Duet keeps the basic elements of Codenames - give one-word clues to try to get someone to identify your agents among those on the table - but now you're working together as a team to find all of your agents.

The first collection of additional cases for Baker Street investigators, Casebook #1 contains 8 new cases from authors including Skip Williams,Matt DeForrest, Steve Long, Jeff Siadek, Jeff Grubb, Mark Plemmons, and more. Baker Street is a Role Playing Game in which the players attempt to solve some of the most baffling crimes in history. Featuring over 30 careers, 25 unique criminal extras, and rules for making your own nefarious villains, Baker Street features a robust investigation mechanic, easy character generation, and rules for making your own mystery.

Ultimate Werewolf: Inquisition is a stand-alone game of deduction, secrets and betrayal...with no elimination. Part of the fun is figuring out who on your team are the werewolves, but even then, you’ve still got to outsmart them! A terrible thing is happening in a local village: werewolves are responsible for the deaths of many villagers. Unable to determine who among themselves are werewolves, they’ve called in a group of master inquisitors to help sort out this mess before it’s too late. That’s where you and your team (3-12 players) come in. No stranger to werewolf infestations, you know that the best thing to do is to start lynching suspects. You no sooner get started on this project when you discover that there’s a problem...there are werewolves on your team of inquisitors! Now you’re in a serious pickle: you need to save the village while thwarting the werewolves whom are working alongside you... This version of Ultimate Werewolf: Inquisition includes the Full Moon expansion!

A game of intrigue and deception for 2-4 players.

Blade Runner 2049: Nexus Protocol is a deduction and hidden identity game for 3-6 players. Players compete against Deckard and each other to hunt down the last replicant. Collect evidence by interrogating witnesses to finally expose their hidden identity. You may even discover that you are the one being hunted – can you evade capture to win?

A drawing game for everyone! Everyone is drawing one picture together.and one doesn't even know what they draw. There is a fake artist hiding among the real artists - can you find out who it is? The fake artist has to be careful not to be identified and the real artists have to be careful not to make it too easy for the deceiver.

Unlock! Secret Adventures is now available in a big box format that includes 3 Adventures. The tricky Professor Noside returns in "A Noside Story," the coninuation of the carton-style adventure; platers must once again stop his plans before it's too late. Players will hope aboard a locomotive adventure in the western themed "Tombstone Express" to prove their deductive and gun-slinging skills. In "The Adventurers of Oz," players rediscover the Wonderful Land of Oz as they visit the Wizard and challenge th Wicked Witch of the West. Unlock! is a cooperative card game inspired by escape rooms that uses a simple system which allows you to search scenes, combine objects, and solve riddles. With one hour on the clock, up to six players work through a deck of sixty cards as a team, searching for clues, combining objects, and solving puzzles. Play Unlock! to embark on great adventures, while seated at a table using only cards and a companion app that can provide clues, check codes, monitor time remaining, etc. Once your team has reached a solution and entered the correct code into the app, the game is won! Unlock, Secret Adventures includes three new scenarios to play through.

UNLOCK! Mystery Adventures is now available in a big box format that includes 3 Adventures. Players must survive a sea monster and depleting oxygen levels in the underwater adventure, “ The Nautilus’ Traps . ” In “ The House on the Hill, ” players explore a run-down manor to stop a sinister curse. And it’s a race against the clock as players track down Captain Smith’s hidden treasure in “ The Tonipals Treasure . ” UNLOCK! is a series of escape adventures for up to six players. With one hour on the clock, players must work through a deck of sixty cards as a team, searching for clues, combining objects, and solving puzzles. The free UNLOCK! companion app runs the timer while providing clues, offering hints, and confirming successes. Once the team has reached a solution and entered the correct code into the app, they win the game! Contents: 1 x Rulebook 10 x Tutorial Cards 186 Adventure Cards