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Harder to teach
High replayability
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Deep strategy
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User summary: ????? (Nigaoe Tantei) is Painter Detective.
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User summary: ????? (Nigaoe Tantei) is Painter Detective. In the game of Painter Detective, one player takes the role of detective, and the others are the witnesses. Each suspect card depicts a face of a suspect, and a criminal is chosen randomly from 48 suspect cards. The witnesses looks at the face of the criminal and memorize its characteristics in five seconds. Then each witness is assigned one or two face parts they must explain, and describes the criminal's characteristics by verbal method only. The detective listens to the descriptions and draws a composite sketch, and tells the criminal from the suspect cards. In 2016, a female edition was published jointly with YACO, called Painter Detective Girl ???????? (Nigaoe Tantei Garu). Gameplay is the same, the artwork by ?? ??? (Yuko Yano) shows only female characteristics. The publishers says on the box "The Painter Detective receives the request, it's a "Search of the Lost Girl"! Let's make the portrait from the unclear information by some witness. This game is the party game with the memory, the observation and the drawing.". Publisher's summary: ??????????????????????????????????? ????????????48????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????????????????????