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Black Stories: Mittelalter Edition box art
2012 Ranked #17,865

Black Stories: Mittelalter Edition

A cooperative riddle card game has players reconstruct grim medieval crimes and events by asking questions and making guesses. Historical and imagined mysteries make the group piece together each unsettling explanation from sparse clues.

Card Game Deduction Storytelling

Players

2-15

Play time

Not listed

Age

12+

Complexity

1.75/5

Rating

5.80

Harder to teach Highly interactive 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 3.9/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

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?

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.

Core mechanisms

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Storytelling

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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. Outrageous witch trials, wicked instruments, ghastly and catastrophic personal hygiene counts - what age could better fit to black stories as the Dark Ages? Part of the puzzles are based on historical events in this edition, some of them are from the medieval life.

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Category

5
Card Game Deduction Horror Humor Medieval

Mechanism

1
Storytelling

Family

2
Game: Black Stories Misc: No Table Needed

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Game and edition data

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Play and group

Players
2–15
Best with
3–8
Play time
20 min
Age
12+
Complexity
1.8/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

2
Corinna Harder Jens Schumacher

Artists

1
Bernhard Skopnik

Publishers

4
Gen-X Games Kaissa Chess & Games Kikigagne? MINDOK

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