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The forensic scientists of the Glitch Squad have each been assigned a crime scene to analyze. Unfortunately, the office cat—Glitch—has accidentally changed the password to all of the evidence lockers.
Each round, you write 3 clues to help one of your teammates guess a piece of evidence related to the crime: location, weapon, occupation, or hobby. Unfortunately, Glitch the cat messes up these clues. Acting as the meddlesome cat, your opponent gets to erase one of the clues, and write in a "Glitched" clue to stump your ally.
Can you guess the evidence from the clues, knowing one of them is glitched? If so, you reveal the next letter in the password to your evidence locker! If not, the opponent who glitched your clues gets the next letter in their password. The first team to guess all of their passwords wins!
Created in collaboration between LabX at the National Academy of Sciences, Tiltfactor, and Resonym. Game concept by Rick Thomas.
- Went over really well with a group of six.
- Satisfying to watch fake clues mislead opponents.
- Surprisingly difficult to lead teammates astray.
- Can be difficult to lead opponents astray.
- Interpreting and altering clues after a cat has walked across keyboards.
- A crime scene investigated by forensic scientists.
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Clue giving — Opponents secretly write out three clues to try to get their teammates to guess a keyword.
- Deduction — Teams must decipher all of their clues.
- Word modification — Players intercept and change one of their opponents' clues.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- 10 games on the radar is a production of party Lemmings media Holdings Incorporated
- you don't need to know everything just one more thing than your friends do
- it was really satisfying to watch your fake clue totally send someone off in the wrong direction
- this game seems to be pairing beautiful art with Cutthroat gameplay which sounds exactly like something I'd enjoy
- we discovered just how unforgivingly deliciously brutal a word game can be
- the fact that it's two player only makes me think that I might just have to give them a try one more time
- party Lemmings has assured me that everything's gonna be absolutely fine
References (from this video)
- Engaging party game with social interaction
- Accessible rules for casual play
- Mechanics could be confusing if misapplied
- Dependence on word list quality
- Word deduction and team bluffing
- Party game night
- bluffing and misdirection through clues
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Clue substitution / deception — Opponent team substitutes one of your clues to throw off the guessers
- Clue writing / guessing — Teams write clues for teammates to guess words or phrases
- Deduction — Opponent team substitutes one of your clues to throw off the guessers
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- in Redwood you are photographing nature
- Glitch Squad is a word based team party game where you're trying to write clues for your teammates to guess but the other team is substituting one of your clues for one of theirs to throw them off
- Forbidden Jungle is the next in the Forbidden series like Island Desert Sky
- it's a Cooperative game family level style
- Last Light is a 4X game in about an hour
- production in space