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Snake Charmers

Truth, traps, treachery — Who can you trust? And for how long?

Snake Charmers is a bluffing deduction game in which trust has an expiration date!

Together you must drive away the night, but they lurk among you: the snake charmers. To win, you must uncover who is playing WITH you, and who is PLAYING you. Can you root them out in time? Or will you become one yourself?

Kronologic: Cuzco 1450

Kronologic are modern alternatives to Clue: find the culprit, the weapon and the location. Each turn, the active player needs to interrogate a suspect (by aligning cards under perforated cardboard tiles), giving away information to everyone at the table, but giving the active player extra information (how many times a suspect visited a specific location, at what time, etc.)

Set in the majestic city of Cuzco during the year 1450, Kronologic: Cuzco 1450 offers 15 exciting challenges spread across 3 immersive scenarios. By sharing some - but not all - of the you gather, you race with the other players to solve 3 Inca-themed mystery scenarios.

Be the first to solve the mystery to win the game.

A Carnivore Did It!

A Carnivore Did It! promises a guilty meat-eater, but you will have to determine the culprit for yourself. Maybe an herbivore was actually behind the crime, or perhaps you're searching for two culprits — or even three?

For each case in this co-operative game, you're given a number of suspects, with each suspect being assigned a statement, e.g., "Shark is telling the truth" or "A carnivore did it". You know how many culprits you're looking for, and you have some idea of how truthful everyone is being. Perhaps only one suspect is lying, or perhaps 3-4 of them are telling the truth. Putting all of this information together, can you determine who did the crime?

A Carnivore Did It! includes two thousand cases, each with a single solution, with the difficulty increasing to have up to seven suspects, conditional statements, and varying levels of truthiness.

Also included is a campaign mode that links several cases together, with you scoring in them based on the amount of time it takes to find each solution...if you find them at all.

Logic & Lore

Logic & Lore is a cozy-but-competitive deduction game for two players.

Rivals race to be the first to align their hidden stars, numbered 1-9. Each player has dragons and mice working together to organize the cosmos: they send their dragons out to gather information and the mice stay back to take notes and make conclusions based on the knowledge brought back by their dragons.

Players each start with their set of cards face-down and shuffled. The game ends when either one player aligns all of their cards correctly OR a player chooses to reveal all of their cards. If the cards are correct, they win; otherwise, their opponent wins.

A player's turn is made up of the following steps:

Choose Focus - Pick two cards to find more information
Search the Skies - Ask questions about the cards
Move the Heavens - Move cards to new locations - (Optional)
Align the Stars (Optional)
If a player either thinks that all of their cards are aligned, they reveal all of their face-down cards and, if they are all correct, they win. Otherwise, they lose.

—description from the publisher

5-Minute Mystery

5-Minute Mystery is a high-intensity, deductive, mystery game in which players work together to find a culprit hidden in a line-up of suspects.

Just moments before the Museum of Everything was set to unveil its newest exhibit, the priceless MacGuffin, some criminal snuck in and stole it! Now it's up to you, a team of detectives, to crack the case, find the culprit, and recover the missing MacGuffin.

Start by searching for hidden symbols in each room of the museum and find the matching symbols on the codex. Once you've found all of the symbols in the room, you’ll unlock a clue about the culprit.

Match the barcode of the clue tile against the culprit tile to discover valuable information about the crook. Does the miscreant have an umbrella? No? Well, that eliminates the shifty Mr. Braxton, doesn’t it? Quickly sort through the suspect cards in your hand to narrow down who the criminal can be.

You’ll have to make it through as many rooms as it takes to figure out exactly who is responsible for stealing the MacGuffin, but remember, time is not on your side!

Case files change the rules to each time you play, making every game a new challenge.

Do you have what it takes to be the detective to crack the case and solve this five-minute mystery? Only time will tell!