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Black Stories box art
2004 Ranked #4,113

Black Stories

This dark mystery game has players unravel crimes, corpses, and deadly events. Lateral questions expose how each grim story happened.

Party Games Card Game Deduction Storytelling

Players

2-15

Play time

Not listed

Age

12+

Complexity

1.27/5

Rating

6.00

Harder to teach Low interaction Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.8/5

High replayability

Interaction 1.8/5

Low interaction

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

50 black stories, 31 crimes, 49 corpses, 11 murders, 12 suicides and one deadly meal. How could that have happened?

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50 black stories, 31 crimes, 49 corpses, 11 murders, 12 suicides and one deadly meal. How could that have happened? Black Stories are fiddly, morbid and mysterious riddles for teenagers and adults. The players try to reconstruct the crime by asking, guessing and fiddling about. A spooky card game just right for any party.

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Game and edition data

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Play and group

Players
2–15
Best with
3–10
Play time
20 min
Age
12+
Complexity
1.3/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Holger Bösch

Artists

1
Bernhard Skopnik

Publishers

4
Boosterbox.nl Brain Games cosaic Four Esses

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