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2020 Ranked #12,500

Pocket Detective: Die Bombe Tickt

Compact cooperative mystery game has investigators follow a card-driven case to find criminals and save an isolated town from a bomb. Difficult choices advance time toward the denouement, making each lead consequential.

Deduction Storytelling Cooperative Game Series: Pocket Detective (Lavka Games)

Players

1-6

Play time

45-60 min

Age

12+

Complexity

1.44/5

Rating

6.16

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 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.8/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.4/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

A bomb found at a chemical plant! As luck would have it, raging hurricane has cut off the small town you are in from the rest of the world.

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A bomb found at a chemical plant! As luck would have it, raging hurricane has cut off the small town you are in from the rest of the world. You must take the investigation into your own hands, find the criminals and save the town! In 3rd part there are no clock icons on cards in opposite to other cases of this series. You will track spent time in other way. Following some links, you will be instructed to reveal top card of special deck. You should do it at the same turn, and it is not relating to correctness of your choice. It just shows your progress towards the denouement. Depending on how much time takes an action or how is it dangerous. If at least one of the players played 1st or 2nd case, you can try on the role of police officers or journalists. Don't try to cheat or your skill will fail you at the most inopportune moment! Features: Compactness – Pocket Detective is really “pocket”, which allows you to take it with you wherever you go! Simplicity - no boring rules! Just take out the deck and start doing what is said on the cards. (DO NOT shuffle the deck!) Intriguing plot - the game will put you in front of difficult choices and make you make fateful decisions that affect the course of the investigation. Uniqueness - the game is independent of the rest of the "cases" of the series.

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Play and group

Players
1–6
Best with
1–4
Play time
45–60 min
Age
12+
Complexity
1.4/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Yury Yamshchikov

Artists

1
Yury Yamshchikov

Publishers

1
Lavka Games

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