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2016 Ranked #427

Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Jack The Ripper & West End Adventures

Cooperative deduction game where investigators explore Victorian London through newspapers, maps, and directories to solve cases. You choose which leads to pursue, then measure your solution against the case's optimal path.

Thematic Games Deduction Murder/Mystery Narrative Choice / Paragraph Solo / Solitaire Game

Players

1-8

Play time

60-120 min

Age

10+

Complexity

2.19/5

Rating

7.60

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 3.9/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

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Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Jack the Ripper & West End Adventures is a standalone expansion to Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective with updated graphics that features ten more cases to be solved in Sherlock Holmes' Victorian-era London, England.

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Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Jack the Ripper & West End Adventures is a standalone expansion to Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective with updated graphics that features ten more cases to be solved in Sherlock Holmes' Victorian-era London, England. A "London Directory", map, and newspaper archives are included with the cases. Included are six independent "West End Adventures" cases (redesigned and updated from the 1995 expansion), and a series of four new cases based on the Jack the Ripper murders. Jack the Ripper Cases: Mary Ann Nichols Annie Chapman Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes Mary Jane Kelly West End Adventures: The Strange Case of Dr. Goldfire The Murder of Sherlock Holmes A Case of Identity The Death of a Transylvanian Count A Royal Huggermugger at the Savage Club A Simple Case of Murder

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Play and group

Players
1–8
Best with
1–4
Play time
60–120 min
Age
10+
Complexity
2.2/5
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Credits

Designers

3
Suzanne Goldberg Gary Grady Jérôme Ropert

Artists

4
Bernard Bittler Arnaud Demaegd Neriac Pascal Quidault

Publishers

4
asmodee Asterion Press CrowD Games Kaissa Chess & Games

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