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Le Fantôme de l’Opéra

Ermittler gegen das Phantom

Mysterious events are meant to frighten away Singer Carlotta from the Paris Opera. The culprit must be unmasked from a group of eight suspects.

Based on the mechanisms in Mr. Jack one player is an investigator and the other the Phantom. The game comprises eight character discs with one side for “innocent” and one for “suspect”. Eight character cards show pictograms for range of movement and special abilities; there are also alibi cards and special tiles.

The game is prepared as stated in the rules. The Phantom player learns from the top alibi card which person he will use to mask himself. In a round two persons are active, two each for investigator and Phantom, chosen by exact means, depending on the active side of the rounds counter, and played in given order. When the Phantom then is able become noticeable - his character is alone in a lit-up salon of the opera or in the salon with energy blackout - all persons who are not alone in a lit-up room are automatically innocent. If the Phantom cannot draw attention upon himself, it is clear that he is in a lit-up room together with others, whereby automatically all persons that are alone in a room are innocent. When at that point several suspects are left over, Carlotta moves towards the exit accordingly. When there is only one suspect left, the investigator has won.

Definitely a worthy successor to Mr. Jack; the Carlotta movement introduces an additional challenge to the basically simple mechanism and to the interrelation of character abilities due to the different order in which persons are played for Phantom and investigator according to the rounds marker.

Players: 2

Age: 9+

Time: 30+

Designer: Bruno Cathala, Ludovic Maublanc

Artist: Jean-Marie Minguez

Price: ca. 26 Euro

Publisher: Hurrican 2014

Web: www.hurricangames.com

Genre: Deduction

Users: With friends

Special: 2 players

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Adapted version of Mr. Jack

Somewhat simpler as there are fewer possibilities to move

Manifold interrelations due to character abilities

Compares to:

Mr. Jack

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 2

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 2

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0