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Crimebox Investigation

Solving a murder case

Murder was done, crime scene and clues are secured and the culprit must be found. You can either play the investigation of the case or the murder trial. At the start you lay out the cards for crime scene and the flats of victim and three suspects to form zones of the investigation area. Then you draw identity cards for those persons, and then you place one card each for location, autopsy and provisional findings next to the crime scene zone. The stacks for evidence, investigation reports, connections & relationships and laboratory analysis are prepared.

For the Investigation mode you draw two cards from one of those stacks and play one of them to a corresponding symbol in the investigation area. When there are at least two cards in each zone you can try to solve the case and must use each card in the area for your reconstruction. The other players try to fault your reconstruction; if they cannot do so you win.

In the Trial mode one player embodies the Public Prosecutor, the others are Defense Lawyers for the suspects. Play is identical to the Investigation mode, the Prosecutor always plays his card into the zone with the fewest cards. He can arraign a suspect at any time, naming method and motive. At this point the lawyers of those suspects not arraigned turn into Jurors and pleadings are given by Prosecution and Defense, then the jurors confer and decide on guilt or not guilty by individual voting.

Crimebox is a very interesting and challenging variant of a find-the-culprit game, providing challenges for logical abilities and for eloquence. You should be familiar with the Investigation mode before playing the Trial Mode.

Players: 2-8

Age: 14+

Time: 30+

Designer: Cymon Kraft

Artist: Cédric Lefebvre

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: Heidelberger Spieleverlag 2013

Web: www.heidelbaer.de

Genre: Crime, role-playing

Users: With friends

Special: Many players

Version: de

Rules: de fr

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Two game modes

Role playing elements in the Trial Mode

Trial Mode needs a minimum of four players

Short, clear rules

Compares to:

Lady Alice and other similar games as regards to the Investigation Mode, first game with the Trial Mode

Other editions:

Ludonaute, France

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 3

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0