Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
How it plays
How does it play?
A snowy winter weekend at the Bärenfeld Christmas market ends fatally for an actor in the Nativity play. What happened on stage in public?
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Scenario Campaign
Play linked or standalone scenarios with their own setup, objectives, and consequences.
Cooperative Game
Players coordinate their actions toward a shared objective and win or lose together.
Deduction
Combine clues and exclusions to identify hidden information.
Storytelling
Create or extend a narrative in response to prompts or game events.
Team-Based Game
Players compete in fixed teams and coordinate toward a shared team result.
Read the full game description
A snowy winter weekend at the Bärenfeld Christmas market ends fatally for an actor in the Nativity play. What happened on stage in public? As every winter, a nativity play takes place at the Bärenfeld Christmas Market. But this time the audience is horrified when the actor collapses lifeless in the middle of the stage at the end of the play. The police are in the dark and need your help. Who killed Josef? The Ice-Cold Crime case is a case for the experienced professionals among you. In contrast to the King's Murder case, you are pretty much on your own here; there is hardly any help from the police. Will you manage to solve this really tricky case? As a team, you will need to analyse letters, interpret the police interviews of various suspects, make telephone calls and even do some research on the Internet. Your approach to finding a solution is guaranteed to be multidimensional. Study the fingerprints, collect all the information on your large poster, discuss the alibis and motives. For your research during the investigation, you will need internet access and a phone with which you can receive text messages. It is also helpful (but not absolutely necessary) if you have a laptop or tablet at hand. Mobile phones are also allowed!