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Black Stories: Real Crime Edition box art
2009 Ranked #15,470

Black Stories: Real Crime Edition

A cooperative mystery-riddle card game has players reconstruct real crime scenarios by asking questions and forming theories. Answers are restricted to yes or no, so each clue narrows a deliberately unsettling chain of events.

Party Games Card Game Deduction Storytelling

Players

2-15

Play time

Not listed

Age

12+

Complexity

1.14/5

Rating

5.70

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 3.1/5

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?

How could that have happened? Black Stories are fiddly, morbid and mysterious riddles for teenagers and adults.

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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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. This version of the black stories features real crime events. The box claims to include bonus material about offenders and offences, but there is no actual bonus booklet or anything like that. That only refers to slightly more detailed information on the backs of the cards as usual.

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Type

1
Party Games

Category

5
Card Game Deduction Horror 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
2–8
Play time
20 min
Age
12+
Complexity
1.1/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Holger Bösch

Artists

1
Bernhard Skopnik

Publishers

4
Brain Games Galápagos Jogos Gameplay Publishing ApS Gen-X Games

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