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Black Vienna box art
1987 Ranked #4,430

Black Vienna

This deduction game has investigators uncover three hidden spies among lettered suspects. Each question reveals only a count, so players must infer identities from partial information.

Strategy Games Card Game Deduction Paper-and-Pencil

Players

3-6

Play time

Not listed

Age

10+

Complexity

2.62/5

Rating

7.00

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.9/5

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?

In this thinly-themed game, players seek to uncover the three spies who have their identities hidden. There are twenty-seven possible suspects, represented by twenty-seven lettered cards (with the umlauted O).

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In this thinly-themed game, players seek to uncover the three spies who have their identities hidden. There are twenty-seven possible suspects, represented by twenty-seven lettered cards (with the umlauted O). Three of the cards are removed, as they are the spies. The remainder are dealt out to the players. Then players take turns 'asking' each other for information by playing a card with three letters in front of the informant. He must then look at his cards and place either zero, one, two, or three chips on the card, depending on how many of those letters are part of his secret collection. The first player to correctly identify the three missing spies (letters) is the winner.

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Play and group

Players
3–6
Best with
3–6
Play time
60 min
Age
10+
Complexity
2.6/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Gilbert Obermair

Artists

3
Jim Ferreira Martina Irion Steve Sisk

Publishers

2
(Web published) KOSMOS

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