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Pulp Detective

Solve cases by rolling dice

Rolling dice solves cases! The game features 27 Investigate cards, three Case cards, two Police and Detective card, one Clue/Stamina card per player plus four Investigate dice, a Paper Boy dice and an Underworld Connection die.  

You select a detective with special ability, a case card and a level of difficulty for the case and then mark the tracks for time, stamina and clues. A Criminal card in any orientation shows all possible suspects.

To solve a case, you must find all clues and confront the criminal. If you run out of time or stamina before doing so, the case remains unsolved and you lose the game. In a game turn, you play phases: 1. Storyline – You draw three cards and display one of them to continue the story line – for stamina, items or clues, discard one card and return one card to the deck. When doing this, you should pay attention to icons in the corners of the cards – correlations in the story line can give you additional dice rolls. 2. Investigate – You roll dice for icon combinations according to the current task on the time line and can improve the result with twist markers and your special ability; if you roll is successful, you receive things, in case of a failure you lose something. 3. Time passes.

If you have found the necessary number of clues, the most frequent icon determines the criminal and you confront him by rolling dice as in the Investigate phase, with all options for result modification.

Not for casual gamers! Here you confront a game and defeat it and are played by it despite tactical and strategical options – a game for players with frustration tolerance. And, yes, sometimes you will win!

Players: 1-2

Age: 14+

Time: 30+

Designer: Todd Sanders

Artist: Todd Sanders, Steeger Properties

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: AV Studio Games / LudiCreations 2018

Web: www.avstudiogames.com

Genre: Detecting, dice

Users: With friends

Special: 1 player

Special: 2 players

Version: en

Rules: de en fr it

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Solitaire game with a 2-player variant

Unusual mechanism mix

Many modifications for dice results

The game is in charge

(c) Image HolsDerGeier BGG

Compares to:

First game of its kind

Other editions:

AV Studio Games (en fr), AV Studio Games / LudiCreations (de), Giochix (it)

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 2

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0