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2015 Ranked #22,881

We Detectives

Players cooperatively move through a city investigation, trying to collect all evidence before a twenty-four-turn deadline. Drawn phone tiles can help movement or close locations, so unexpected events continually reshape the team plan.

Children's Game Cooperative Game

Players

2-4

Play time

Not listed

Age

7+

Complexity

1.25/5

Rating

5.32

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 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Work together with your friends and family to put the crooks behind bars! Play as detectives and walk around the city hunting for clues and completing tasks.

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Work together with your friends and family to put the crooks behind bars! Play as detectives and walk around the city hunting for clues and completing tasks. The Chief Detective has given you a 24 h deadline to solve the crime, make sure you complete your investigation by then or the robbers go free! Teamwork will get you to the bottom of each case. Unforeseen events may hinder your progress, though.... In this game you move around the board taking your tiles to the required locations to collect evidence. Each turn before you move you draw a WePhone tile, and these might help or hinder your progress (give you extra movement, shut various buildings, or return tiles you've already collected to collect again). You are cooperatively trying to collect all the 12 evidence tiles before the game ends (24 turns, represented by the WePhone deck).

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Play and group

Players
2–4
Best with
2–4
Play time
30 min
Age
7+
Complexity
1.3/5
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Designers

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Tom Greenawalt

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Tactic

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