Since Dixit's release, however, there have been several Dixit-esque board games published - including the beloved spooky co-op game Mysterium and the more recent Detective Club. Wheels highlights some of the best party board games on the market. Detective Club is a fantastic secret submit and judge / communication party game. It reaches the same fun and excitement levels of similar party game Dixit, but has enough differences to justify owning and playing both. This game looks like it could have easily fallen in the shadows of some of the other leaders in the party board game field, but it has done a great job of setting itself apart and being one of the best at what it does. Read Our Detective Club Review Go to Top

Once everyone has had a chance to give their explanation, players will vote on who they believe the conspirator—the player who never saw the word—is. Then the conspirator reveals themselves and everyone who voted for that person scores three points. If the conspirator had no votes or only a single vote, they score five points and the active player scores four. Once all players have explained why they played the cards they did, all players, starting with the player to the left of the active player vote on who they feel is the Conspirator. Once all players, except for the active player have voted, the Conspirator reveals themselves and points are awarded based on votes. The active player and Conspirator receive points if the Conspirator receives fewer than two votes. All Detectives who correctly voted for the Conspirator will get points, and those who voted for the wrong person get zero. After all players have been the active player once, the game ends and the person with the most points wins. Being the Conspirator Thematic Game – Before the first round, players choose a topic. As the informer, choose a word on your turn. You must make sure your word matches the overall topic chosen. Topics can be very general or specific depending on how difficult you want to make things.If there are 2 or more Tokens on the Conspirator's Player Marker, then the Conspirator and the Active Player do not score any VP. Example: Mike and Bill have now added a second card, and Jane understands that the word was probably not water. Maybe "nature " then? Or something similar? She places the sunflower card, hoping for the best. Topics can be very specific (for instance Space Opera , USA", "Protagonists"..). or general ("Movies", "Countries", "Literature" ) depending on the level of difficulty you want to play with. Once all players have played a card, the Active Player plays a second card, and so on until everyone played two cards.

Detective Club" once again opens its doors for new members. You are also invited, but first you must prove yourself as a real detective. One player will receive an empty notebook: he is the Conspirator. The other are Detectives. Detectives must try and identify the Conspirator. The Conspirator must team up with the Active Player to tiy and mislead Detectives.The liar is revealed and victory points are given out based on the following – (1) Each detective who placed their voting on the liar’s board gets 3 VP | (2) If there are 0 – 1 markers on the liar’s board, they get 5 VPS and the Informer gets 4 VPS | (3) If there are 2 or more player markers on the liar’s board, they and the informer get no points.

After secretly coming up with the clue, the “informer” writes that down on all of the “?” notebooks except for one. They then shuffle up the books and give one to every player. This means one person does not know the clue and nobody knows who that person is. The goal will be to expose that person. Detective Club is a really fun deduction game, and is suitable for players at all gaming levels. The cards are beautiful, and have enough on them for a player to use a card for several different themes. The only downside is the difficulty the Conspirator may face, if positioned directly left of the active player. If there is a tie, tied player with greater amount of victory point tokens wins, if still tied, all tied players share victory. Alternatively, you might be the conspirator and get away with it because you happened to have cards that fit the theme perfectly. Or you're just an amazing liar.Randomly choose the first Active Player. That player receives the pen (which is the Active Player Marker) and takes one notebook for each other player in the game (for instance, in a 7-player game, the Active Player would take 6 notebooks).