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Mystery Rummy: Al Capone and the Chicago Underworld, the fourth title in the Mystery Rummy series, introduces some elements of Canasta with players scoring bonuses for collecting complete sets. Sets have varying numbers of cards in them, from Mike Heitler with four cards up to Al Capone with eight.
The four types of gavel card make cards accessible everywhere: "Agent Meeting" searches other players' hands, "Eliot Ness" searches the deck, "Search Warrant" looks in the discard pile, and "Raid" allows you to take an opponent's already melded cards, provided you have at least three melded. All these mechanisms help make completing entire sets for their bonuses something you can reasonably strive for – while also putting you on guard against your opponent doing the same.
- Favorite of the Mystery Rummy series
- Fun thematic integration
- Easy to learn rules
- Least thematic game on the list.
- Al Capone / Underworld
- Chicago
- Mystery Rummy series
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- rummy variant — A rummy variant with special cards.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- Well, look, I don't claim to know much about gangsters and things along those lines, but I do know that certain times there are certain um repercussions, uh consequences, if you will for acts that are considered disrespectful, maybe copying what somebody else has done before you.
- Gangster, mob, criminals. That's a theme that's actually not in as many board games as you might think.
- It just feels a little go to put one of my own games on the list.
- It's almost a little too crime is a terrible thing in real life and it works in board games I think sometimes the sillier it is or at least the more cartoonish sort of like cartoon pirate compared to the reality of pirates.
- This is a game that looks gangster. It also looks old.
- It's essentially the shootout at the end of a gangster movie. The reservoir dogs, everyone's pointing guns at everyone else and ah and who's going to shoot?
- This game really kind of brings that that Godfather.
- This is a big grandiose game, the biggest on my list. And I think it does a lot of fun bringing that theme to life.
- Think of it as an episode of CSI or Law and Order.