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Cold Cases

Cold Cases

Alga · 2020
2–545–60 min10+ yrs6.0 BGG11
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How do you play Cold Cases?

One of the participants plays William Wisting and sits on one side of the magnetic, vertical game board. It's your job to track down the perpetrators and bring them to justice.

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Cold Cases box art
official art · Alga

One of the participants plays William Wisting and sits on one side of the magnetic, vertical game board. It's your job to track down the perpetrators and bring them to justice. Every time you lead one criminal to the arrest, you must give a handcuff piece to that participant.

Other participants sit on the other side and act as criminals. When you committed your criminal acts, you left traces. Now each of you must return to the crimescene to destroy the tracks so that Wisting does not get hold of you. You start with five track cards each on hand, one track card of each color. Every time you manage to get to one of your crime scenes, you have to leave that track card to Wisting.

If you as William Wisting get rid of all your handcuffs cards first, you win. But if a criminal manages to get rid of all his track cards, he wins. Everyone plays against everyone. The criminals constantly see how Wisting moves, but Wisting does not know how the criminals move.

Wisting must be strategic and try to calculate how the criminals move on the game board.

The battle is between Wisting and the fastest criminal. Should evil or good win?

game anatomy
BGG rating6.0 / 10
Language dependence
No in-game text needed
🌐 plays without English
Play time
45–60 min
Players
2–5
Recommended age
10+ yrs
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Q3How do you play Cold Cases?
Cold Cases is a deduction game, for 2–5 players, taking ~45–60 minutes, featuring hidden movement. Check the Rules tab for setup, gameplay, and scoring, or ask Trișache anything about Cold Cases — our AI assistant built by howtoplay.ro and trained specifically on board game rulebooks.
Q4How many players does Cold Cases support?
Cold Cases is played by 2–5 players.
Q5How long does a game of Cold Cases take?
A game of Cold Cases takes about 45–60 minutes. (The first game doesn't count. It never counts.)
Q6What age is Cold Cases for?
Cold Cases is recommended from age 10.
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