What Is It? This is a card game of deception, confusion, and chaos. Jack the Ripper mixes the interplay of party games like Werewolf and Mafia, the psychology of games like poker, and the action of games like your favorite collectible card game. On top of that, we fit all of this into a primer game that takes fifteen minutes or less to play! The Characters...
Every round begins this way: One player is designated the contestant. The other players receive a folder. Every folder contains a riddle. All but one folder get a value card from $10 to $100. The remaining folder has a card that says “Jackpot!” The Super Target spinner is spun to determine a random three-digit target number and a random four-digit Super...
This game is set in the Southern American jungle. The story is a myth about a jade statue (a king), that was stolen by the Spanish conquistadors who got lost due to a curse (and with them the statue. The board shows eight oracles, according to the myth one of which turns into the jade statue when someone solves three questions/puzzle. This is a game that...
The initiates have waited for this day for centuries, and now that the grail appeared, they are well prepared. Following an ancient plan, the grail shall be brought to its designated place. But do the other initiates have the same goal as you? Whom can you trust? Assassins, Templars, Rosicrucians and Illuminates start the hunt for the grail. The pawns on...
Play as Jake and his friends or Captain Hook and search for buried treasure! Explore the island by rolling a dice to move around and use Search Cards to help find the treasure’s location. Players eliminate locations by using Search Cards guessing colors, shapes, or cardinal directions (in the advanced game). Once a player thinks he knows where the treasure...
Early (predecessor?) parlor/play-acting game of hosting a murder/mystery. There were at least six games in the Jamie Swise line, some of which were incorporated into the Milton Bradley Life of the Party line of mystery games. This one... Why did a nice lady like Mary Wrightwood suddenly stop publishing her weekly gossip rag and begin building a virtual...
This is one of the Jamie Swise murder-mystery role-playing games published by Just Games. It was later published by Milton Bradley as part of their "Life of the Party" line beginning in 1987. Episode: Who Killed Roger Ellington? The Plot: Post-war America was thriving in 1948, as was murder in a small Massachusetts town. Industrialist Roger Ellington was...
"As a Shakespearean comedy was being presented on an off-Broadway stage, a real-life tragedy was being acted out backstage. Bit player Barry Wine was murdered while he sat in his dressing cubicle. With a suspect list which includes a wealthy producer, an overly ambitious director, a talented costume designer, and five actors (some of whom are legends in...
Milton Bradley produced 8 mystery party/role-playing games (in the vein of “How to Host a Murder”) beginning in 1987. They were published as "Life of the Party" games; four mysteries and four murders. These are also copyright Jamie Swise Games—the designer of the games, who produced several other titles (and many, if not all, of these) a few years earlier....
Milton Bradley produced 8 mystery party/role playing games (in the vein of How to Host a Murder) in 1987. They were all called "Life of the Party" games, four mysteries and four murders. The back of all boxes indicates that these are also copyright Jamie Swise Games, as that outfit produced several of their own titles (and several, if not all, of these) a...
Milton Bradley produced 8 mystery party/role playing games (in the vein of How to Host a Murder) in 1987. They were all called "Life of the Party" games, four mysteries and four murders. The back of all boxes indicates that these are also copyright Jamie Swise Games, as that outfit produced several of their own titles (and several, if not all, of these) a...
Jane Siavash is a hidden-role, deduction and reasoning game for 5 to 15 players. The game depicts a battle between Iran and Turan as players work to rescue Siavash. It is inspired by the epic story of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh. Story: the jealousy of Garshasp, Afrasiyab’s brother, who cunningly manipulates Afrasiyab into sending an army to kill Siavash....