subplotkudzu | A Long Lost Treasure

I was at my parent's house this weekend and, while checking to see if they still had our old Clue board game that I could swipe for our daughter's eventual use, I discovered that they still had my copy of 221b Baker Street: The Master Detective Game. I was overjoyed! For those not familiar with it, it's something like Clue on steroids. Rather than using process of elimination to figure out what the three cards in the middle are, you instead are read a mystery from a card, have to travel to sites around London to amass clues (the clue number associated with the location is on the back of the case card and are in the clue book) and you have to use pure Holmsian deductive reasoning to determine who committed the crime before your fellow players do.

I played this game a dozen or so times at my friend Greg's house, then got my own copy for Christmas one year and, judging from the set, managed to coerce my parents into playing three times. I think it was, on the whole, a little too complicated for my 10-12 year old age. But now just seeing the box brings back glowing memories.

I still don't have a copy of Clue, but Rachel and I have been looking for good 2 person board games for post baby bedtimes, and this might well fit the bill. Plus, it's pretty.

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Nowadays, my favorite game along those lines is Mystery of the Abbey. Clue + Name of the Rose + way way too many suspects. Tell the programmers they are not allowed any questions that require parenthesis to parse.

I love 221b Baker Street. It's a great little game. Mystery of the Abbey and Mystery Express are both good too, though I haven't played Mystery Express much yet.

I'd say that 221b Baker Street is better with more than 2 players though. Sam and I have had a good time with Lost Cities, Battle Lineand Race for the Galaxy as 2-player games.

I too have that game around somewhere. We love "Mystery at the Abbey" and have tried "Mystery Express." Maybe we can try it out soon. OTOH, I sometimes feel like the slogan of my FLGS: "So many games, so little time."

A Long Lost Treasure

Had the same game as a kid...

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