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Reviewed by Guillermo H.
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I recommend this product
A great competitive deduction game
In "The Key" games, players try to be the most efficient detectives, solving a mystery as fast but with as few clues as possible. The game is played in real time, with no turns. All potential clues are in a heap in the middle of the table. Once the game starts, every player can start picking up clues, one by one. Each clue has a value between 2 and 4 that tells how useful the clue is, and also a couple of visible icons that tell what is the clue about. Once everyone thinks they have solved it, solutions are checked, and among everyone with the right solution, whoever has the smallest total of clue points wins, with the caveat that the first one to have solved the mystery can ignore one of their lowest-value clues when adding them.
In "Theft in Cliffrock Villa", the mystery being solved pertains a series of thefts. Three items have been stolen, by three different suspects, at three different times. Afterwards, the suspects have escaped the villa in three different ways. To solve the case, you need to match time, suspect, item, and escape method for the three robberies. To help interpreting the clues, you get mugshots of the suspects, their fingerprints, and what they had on themselves when captured. Some of the clues might need you to crossreference some of that information to be able to eliminate a suspect, or a escape method, etc.
This is a fast game. It will take less than 15 minutes all in all. But it is quite intense, as only real time games get to be in many cases.…
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