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Noir: Deductive Mystery Game box art
2012 Ranked #3,471

Noir: Deductive Mystery Game

This hidden-identity duel has a Killer and Inspector pursue different goals among shared suspects. Secret identities and open roles make deduction central to every move.

Family Games Deduction Murder/Mystery Secret Unit Deployment Variable Player Powers

Players

2-9

Play time

15-60 min

Age

8+

Complexity

1.6/5

Rating

6.45

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

At a glance

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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 3.6/5

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?

NOIR: Killer vs. Inspector is a two-player game of hidden identities and deduction.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

Variable Player Powers

Each player has different abilities, restrictions, or strategic advantages.
Secret Unit Deployment

Place or assign units secretly before their positions are revealed.
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NOIR: Killer vs. Inspector is a two-player game of hidden identities and deduction. Each player receives a secret identity from among 25 suspects and an open role that determines his available moves and victory conditions. The Killer plays by eliminating players, focusing more on intuition and reading his opponent. The Inspector uses secret information and his ability to accuse suspects to create a play style more focused around logical elimination of possibilities. The game plays in 5 to 15 minutes, and is contained in a 54-card deck box for easy travel play. NOIR: Deductive Mystery Game – Black Box Edition includes fifty suspect and fifty innocent cards as well as six game modes — including Killer vs. Inspector, Hitman vs. Sleuth, Spy Tag, Master Thief vs. Chief of Police — to test your mettle!

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Type

1
Family Games

Category

4
Deduction Murder/Mystery Print & Play Spies/Secret Agents

Mechanism

2
Secret Unit Deployment Variable Player Powers

Family

4
Digital Implementations: Board Game Arena Digital Implementations: Tabletopia Series: Minigame Library (Level 99 Games) Series: Small Box (Level 99 Games)

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Game and edition data

All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
2–9
Best with
2
Play time
15–60 min
Age
8+
Complexity
1.6/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
D. Brad Talton, Jr.

Artists

1
Fábio Fontes

Publishers

1
Level 99 Games