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Black Stories 6 box art
2010 Ranked #16,390

Black Stories 6

A morbid mystery-riddle game has players reconstruct strange crimes by asking questions and making guesses. Only yes-or-no answers are allowed, so the group must slowly narrow each story’s hidden explanation.

Card Game Deduction Storytelling

Players

2-15

Play time

Not listed

Age

12+

Complexity

1/5

Rating

6.06

Harder to teach Low interaction Deep strategy

Overview

At a glance

Is this game right for my group?

ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 1.7/5

Low interaction

Player scaling 4.4/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

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. Only yes/no answers are allowed. A spooky card game just right for any party.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

Storytelling

Create or extend a narrative in response to prompts or game events.
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Category

6
Card Game Deduction Horror Humor Murder/Mystery Party Game

Mechanism

1
Storytelling

Family

2
Game: Black Stories Misc: No Table Needed

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Game and edition data

All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
2–15
Best with
3–10
Play time
20 min
Age
12+
Complexity
1.0/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Holger Bösch

Artists

1
Bernhard Skopnik

Publishers

4
G3 Kaissa Chess & Games moses. Verlag GmbH Story Factory

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