Tom Vasel, Zee Garcia, and Chris Yi take a look at their favorite games that use inference, suspicion, reasoning, hunches, and stone cold deduction!
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29 Comments
No Alchemists, Tom?
Thx for great video. Wonderful new games for my list. But a word of caution: dont try Turing Machine solo at nightmare level, even with only 4 clues. After an hour, with 3 coffee breaks, I crumpled all my pieces of paper and sulked out of the room 😅. But I agree with Chris: a great game for one's special nook
No Mystery of the Abbey?
Whitehall Mystery / Letters from Whitechapel are the most accessible while crunchy deduction you can play
can do top 10 push your luck games.. playgroup is liking dont llama dice and flip 7
I would like to know which crossovers the three of them suspected at the start, because not all of them actually happened in the end
What a great category! Did you run out of letters already? Because you could just do top ten games with an odd number of d:s in the name.
My wife and I love Tiwanaku (Formerly known as Pachamama).
Excited to make the list!
What?!! No 221 B Baker Street! Also, I would consider Deception, Murder in Hong Kong a more of a deduction game. The social deduction part is a small part The game it is about really about guessing from the clues which of the items were picked.
What the heck is a beeny?
I’m glad to find 6 of my games on your Top 10. I’d add Finding Atlantis (still unplayed on my shelf, but I’m looking forward to it), Tricoda (a.k.a. Code 777) (a favorite of mine), Break the Cube (a small but great deduction filler) and Décorum.
My top 10:
1. Sleuth
2. Mind MGMT
3. Rear Window
4. Cryptid
5. Whitehall Mystery
6. Suspects
7. Treasure Island
8. Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective
9. Tragedy Looper
10. The Lost Code
No Alchemists love smh
One I really like that I didn't see mentioned is Black Sonata. Solo, deduction, hidden movement. I think its real solid
Chronicles of Crime?
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They should really separate the cooperative and the competitive games into separate lists.
Also a mention to Alchemists, while understandably not a top 10, it did help make this genre more popular in the last 10 years.
In general I think I like games where it is a race to deduce something (like Cryptid) than it is a deduction game wrapped in a standard euro.
Thanks for the list! I don't think The Crew (while I love the game) quite belongs to this category. The Crew to me is similar to other games that rely on limited communication, like Hanabi. I think deduction games are about using concrete facts to figure out other concrete facts. The Crew/Hanabi are about figuring out what other people are trying to tell you.
Spy Tricks is a good game
Greenfelder Burg
Hooky is so under the radar for being so good. I want to try Message From The Stars. It sounds like an advanced version of Phantom Ink, which CAN be really intense, and lots of fun. My other favs are Decrypto, Cryptid, and Inkognito. If they could be combined, it would be called Dekogtid.
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Black Vienna is incredible. Zendo is also induction, so if Tobago is out, why is Zendo in?
Fallen Angels is a great little cooperative deduction game. Dark theme, but really good.
If Zee's and Eric's voices had a baby, it'd be Chris'.
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