Thursday 24 December 2020

Alrightgames: Sherlock Holmes – The Card Game

Sherlock Holmes: The Card Game

1991 / Mystery card game / 3-8 players / UK

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Worth a try for a fiver, I was mainly hoping that its commitment to source authenticity would give me (and maybe my daughter one day – no pressure) incentive to pick up the heaviest book on the shelves every now and then. It's already working.

Forming a coherent mystery narrative from a shuffled deck would be asking a bit much, so it goes for a sequential tropes runaround instead. The groove became comfortingly familiar after a few plays, so I'll stop before I get sick of it, but it's definitely one I'll try to force into my daughter's childhood nostalgia to make up for mine not having it.