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2019 Ranked #6,573

Sherlock: El Mayordomo

This cooperative mystery game has detectives reveal or discard clues, then construct a theory and answer case questions. Sharing irrelevant information costs points, so the group must decide which details are worth exposing before solving the death.

Card Game Deduction Communication Limits Memory

Players

1-8

Play time

Not listed

Age

10+

Complexity

1.83/5

Rating

6.86

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

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 each Q case, you try to solve a mystery case with 32 clues, with players revealing one clue at a time until all cards have been revealed or discarded.

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In each Q case, you try to solve a mystery case with 32 clues, with players revealing one clue at a time until all cards have been revealed or discarded. During your turn, each player must perform one of the following actions: A) Reveal information: Choose a card from your hand and place it on the table, so all players can read or see the entire information. We recomend you read out loud all shared info when you place it on the table. If you play a clue that happens to be irrelevant to the case, you lose points at the end of the game, but be careful! Some clues are vital to resolve the case. You can share and expose your theories at any moment and talk about the cards you have in your hand but you cannot show them to the other players and you may only read out loud the words written in bold or the text framed inside an image: At the end of the game, when all clue cards have been revealed or discarded, you must check carefully all the available information and prepare a theory of what happened, working all together. Then, open the questionnaire and answer all questions. During this phase of the game, you can speak freely about your discarded cards, or the information you remember of them. Each right answer will add two points. —description from the back of the box El famoso mayordomo de Milwaukee es hallado muerto. ¿Suicidio o asesinato?, ¿qué ha sucedido? Vuestro equipo de detectives deberá analizar las pistas para responder a éstas y otras muchas preguntas. ¿Conseguiréis esclarecer la misteriosa muerte? —description from the back of the box

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Play and group

Players
1–8
Best with
1–5
Play time
60 min
Age
10+
Complexity
1.8/5
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Credits

Designers

4
Eugeni Castaño Martí Lucas Feliu Josep Izquierdo Sánchez Dani Seguí

Artists

1
Amelia Sales

Publishers

1
GDM Games

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