After you have looked at the clue, you cross off which clue you saw in your quaint little detective pad and then cross off the corresponding miscreants in the grid, also located in your pad. After you can place any of your tokens, face down this time, on a suspect you think may have committed the heinous crime. IN the end thhe winner is determined by who has the most points on the guilty party, or in the event of no guilty party left, the exit tile. Less Deduction More Puzzle Have you ever stood inside the cavernous halls of a great Museum - perhaps the grandiose prehistoric galleries of Natural History in London or the vast art collections of the New York Metropolitan- and there, amongst all the ancient treasures of civilizations swallowed by time, thought to yourself “How much have I paid to get in here and stare at pots? Pots, for god’s sake. I’ve got pots at home. If I ran a museum, let me tell you, things would be a damn sight better than this sorry debacle. Why, there’d be warships and chariots! There’d be an entire wall of katanas! Nobody would yell at you for riding the mammoth skeleton! By god, it would be the greatest assemblage of wonders that this world has ever seen!”? At the end of the game the player with the token earns bonus points! There are 10 different People’s Choice cards, each one with different criteria: Date, value, regions and themes! An important feature of the board is that some of the spaces are hatched. This feature is not known to occur on any other surviving boards. It seems highly likely that these were part of the game, perhaps representing safe spaces or obstacles that needed to be passed. Mr. Boddy has recruited you to take part in a heist! The mission? Steal six priceless exhibits from the museum, then get out and get paid. But someone in your crew is a traitor! You and your fellow players are put to the test: work together to escape the museum before the guards come, and work out who betrayed everybody, what they stole and where they hid it.

To look at a clue you must place a cardboard token of equal or higher value than one that's on there already. This does create a weird bluffing system where you can try and dissuade people from looking at good clues and trying to force them to look at bad ones. If there is no token on a clue you can place any value token on it you please.

Find the thief or thieves from the 16 suspects by looking at clues in the museum. Note this down in your notebook during your six turns to help you with your investigation. In terms of difficulty, The Mysterious Museum has been clearly designed to be on the easy side. Although is classified as 2 out of 5 for difficulty, this game is quite approachable and the story progresses in a much more linear way than usual. All these characteristics together make the Mysterium museum a good entry level for those who are looking to try one of these games for the first time. If your player engages a camera without being able to disable it or moves into a room with a booby trap, the closest guard will move two spaces closer to the thief. If there is a guard in the room you are entering you will need to have a way to disable the guard or face being caught. If you have no cards to deal with the guard you have one last ditch attempt to slip away. This can be achieved by rolling a number on a single dice which is higher than the number of loot items you have.

There are many details on the board worth noting. For example, the snake's body is divided by many grooves forming what most people assume are raised playing spaces. The hood and tail of the snake are hatched and the head features deep recessed eyes (possibly once inlaid with precious stones, which are now missing), and a forked tongue inlaid with red jasper. The larger part also shows the remnant of an appendage on the edge. This is a mysterious feature common to Mehen boards, although it can appear in various forms - other boards, for example, show a goose's head, a large trapezium section or a small turtle's head protrusion.Vistisen, P.: Applied gamification in self-guided exhibitions. In: Proceedings From the 1st Gamescope Conference (2018) We hope you enjoyed our rundown of some historic board games – let us know if they've cured your boredom and if you're enjoying playing any by tweeting us @britishmuseum. What I also appreciated is how everything fits snugly in the box and there is no space wasted inside. I have seen too many games in recent times that bloat the size of the box and have far too much spare space. I suppose that goes hand in hand with the paper envelopes though, it's nice for companies to have one eye on the future of the planet, especially when our hobby uses so much resources. Final Thoughts Have you ever stood inside the cavernous halls of a great Museum– perhaps the grandiose prehistoric galleries of Natural History in London or the vast art collections of the New York Metropolitan- and there, amongst all the ancient treasures of civilizations swallowed by time, thought to yourself “How much have I paid to get in here and stare at pots? Pots, for god’s sake. I’ve got pots at home. If I ran a museum, let me tell you, things would be a damn sight better than this sorry debacle. Why, there’d be warships and chariots! There’d be an entire wall of katanas! Nobody would yell at you for riding the mammoth skeleton! By god, it would be the greatest assemblage of wonders that this world has ever seen!”? The heart of Museum lies in acquiring ancient relics, treasures and antiquities- represented by the game’s 180 Object cards- to exhibit inside your galleries. Hailing from Europe, Asia, America, and Africa and the Middle East, these artefacts cover a staggering twelve different Civilizations which are then further divided into six distinct areas of interest or Domains. If that’s already got your eyes glazing over, don’t worry; it’s easier to grasp than it sounds.

In The People’s Choice, you’ll be competing for a common objective that is drawn at the beginning of the game. For example: The “B.C.” card awards players with the most BC dated cards in their museum. The player with the most cards takes the People’s Choice token and keeps it until another player amasses a bigger collection. Knerr, G.: Technology museums: new publics, new partners. Museum Int. 52, 8–13 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0033.00279The Mysterious Museum is set in the Florence Natural History Museum. You are visiting the sunken treasure of the Santa Maria. Instead of a nice day out your day takes a turn – can you solve the puzzles and escape? Thusly, the set-collecting meat of Museum is a uniquely joyous experience. Gathering these fine-looking specimens for display gives the role-playing aspect of the game- an element so commonly overlooked in this hobby- a true weight to it as you feel like a real curator sizing up pieces for exhibition. The added bonus, of course, is that the historical text on the cards might just make you that bit smarter for having played it. MYSTERY GAMES MAKE GREAT FAMILY GIFTS: strategy board games are excellent presents for families that love playing indoor games together.