This is a game of deduction, deception and collecting evidence and to keep track of this each players uses their case tracker. Can you piece together the evidence to figure out who did it, how they did it, and most importantly, why? All that changes is the four cards that are randomly dealt into the confidential folder at the start.

Place the main board and dice into the centre of the table, then separate the deck of cards into the five types. It is easy to play, evidence cards can be traded (they all have a numeric value to make it work) and evidence cards and case trackers can be stolen by other players (this can be quite frustrating when losing everything that you have collected). The cards need to be separated into the five different types: Weapon, Location, Motive, Suspect and False Evidence and shuffled. Loved this Keith Haring toy, it engrossed my 4 year old just as much as it fascinated me - hours of fun, and it looks so good too.Everything is done very professionally with this company and always lets you know every step of the process. But thankfully there is lots of evidence for the detectives (the players) to find and decipher to unmask the killer, bringing them to justice. There is a small amount of flavour text on the evidence cards too, which is a nice touch, although largely irrelevant.

It would have been interesting if the game had come with a number of different cases from the podcast, and you can chose a random one each game to try and solve. As one of the biggest in the genre, it has currently released over 220 episodes of intriguing dark stories of real-life cases. To regain access, please make sure that cookies and JavaScript are enabled before reloading the page. The colour scheme is a little bland, but the pictures are clear and nothing is too gory or inappropriate for younger players.Select a card at random (without looking) from the Weapon, Location, Motive and Suspect piles and place them, without anyone seeing what is on the cards, into the Confidential Folder – this folder now holds the solution to identify the killer. Features 44 beautifully unique illustrations of game elements, and includes dry-erase boards and markers to easily track your evidence. But if you get even one of the four components wrong, you’ll be irreversibly eliminated from the round (which may be more desirable than you’d think; more on this later). But when a rulebook is incomprehensible and flat out omits rules altogether, it’s more than a slog; it’s unforgivable.

I once played a game of chess with my partner - the first time either of us had played since childhood - which devolved to two kings chasing one another round the board. When that rulebook is complicated, or long, it can be a bit of a chore to learn the game and teach everyone else. When it comes down to it, I’d gain exponentially more from listening to the actual podcast than I would playing the game based on it, too. Some more expansive titles even require multiple ‘practice’ or ‘open-hand’ sessions to parse everything.Hi, I was recently in Wal-Mart when I saw the Casefile board game (along with Hunt-a-killer) and I decided to get it for family game night. The idea of the game is to be the first detective to find out where the crime occurred, why the victim killed and what weapon was used to commit the murder and then catch the killer using deduction skills, evidence cards, truth and deception to crack the case. Wealthy businessman Casey Parker has been murdered, and it’s the responsibility of you and your team mates to solve the case.

Using 44 beautifully illustrated cards, players take turns trading evidence to get closer to the truth. The game is played until a player guesses the answers correctly or all players are knocked out through wrong guesses. It would make an excellent gift this Christmas for older children and teenagers and lots of fun to play together as a family. In this mystery board game based on the hit true crime podcast Casefile, delve into the case of the murdered Casey Parker and be the first to solve it.WE SAT THERE LOST AT HOW THIS GAME IS SUPPOSED TO PLAYED BECAUSE IT FEELS LIKE WE WERE JUST TRADING CARDS BACK AND FORTH AND ROLLING A DIE WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT WE WERE ACTUALLY DOING. Unfortunately we cannot deliver to BFPO addresses and some large items are shipped directly from our suppliers who ship to the UK mainland only.