GoliathGames Presents: Murdle - The Board Game | Based on the Popular Puzzle Book | Clues, Codes, Mystery, Murdle | For 1+ Players Ages 14+

Great game for all the family. Fun trying to work out the killer. Modern version of Cluedo.

A great adaption of the Murdle puzzle game into a competitive multi-player board game.We found that the rules as described meant that the optimal play was just to keep drawing for wild cards to reveal verdict cards fishing for a guilty verdict and then completing that folder's set to achieve a win. This rendered making deductions and grid completion sort of redundant.One situation arose where a player drew a wildcard on their first turn, looked at the verdict for the folder they had gained their initial two clue cards from, which turned out to be guilty. They only needed the remaining clue on their second turn and they won on the third turn. The game had barely started and it felt very unsatisfying.So we tried a few games where wildcards don't allow you to look at verdicts, the only remaining way to check them being revealing a matching pair (a tick on the grid). This made the game much more interesting, and brought making grid deductions back into being the primary focus of the game, and giving the revealing of truths to search for verdicts a sort of finale or endgame feel to it.I very much recommend playing with this house rule: Wildcards don't let you look at verdicts. It turns an okay game into a great game.

Excellent mind bending puzzles.

Maybe we're missing something, but there's no real complexity or nuance to this game. Cluedo works because each player has so many facts that only they know. That doesn't seem to be the case here - by the point at which you're ready to make a guess almost all the players are likely to have the same amount of information (unless you've played it really badly).

Played with my 2 adult children at Christmas, really fun.

Such a great gift and we love playing it, a good intro to the game before you get the book

Honestly a pretty good game, when playing with my family however we had to add a rule that the only time you could look at the verdict is when you give away information as otherwise the game would end really quickly.It is definitely a twist on Cluedo and honestly the only reason Im being picky as I do like games that last a bit longer, but it is fun!

If you do logic puzzles you'll slip into this one easily. Others take a little more time. Good game that doesn't take too long to play.