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Rumors and Legends is a new, fun-filled mystery deduction board game. It stars a creepy cast of creatures and Cryptids, like the Sasquatch and Loch Ness Monster. You are investigating the disappearance of Professor Daffle, the world's leading researcher of Cryptozoology, as you travel to legendary locations like The Himalayas and Roswell, New Mexico. You are also in constant peril of getting lost in the Bermuda Triangle!
Rumors and Legends is a light game that can be learned in 10-15 minutes and takes around 30-45 minutes on average to play. You'll find the mechanics comfortably familiar if you have played the usual suspects of mystery games before, but a host of new twists and turns to make the game feel unique, modern and thematically interesting.
A player rolls the dice to determine their next move. Their move may involve moving their mini a specified number of spaces, drawing a Rumor card, moving the door minis, and/or moving to the Bermuda Triangle to end the turn.
The game ends when a player is first to solve the mystery of Professor Daffle's disappearance. There are three components: the Creature responsible, the Location of Daffle's disappearance, and the Incident that was involved.
The player who is able to solve the three components of the mystery is the one who wins the game.
- Delivered
- Weird to the host
- Host hated everything about it
- Doesn't look great
- Disappeared game
- Not rated on BoardGameGeek
- Very few comments
- Cryptid deduction game.
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Deduction — It is described as a 'cryptid deduction game.'
Video topics + discussion points
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- First of all today, we have Kaboola.
- This is a really wonky game.
- Next is Deep Rock Galactic: The Board Game.
- Next, we have Iron Forest.
- Then, we have Earth.
- Rumors and Legends.
- A Howl Rulers of Yucatán.
- Dinosauria the micro game.
- Tiwanaqu, the exclusive deluxe edition of Tiwanaqu.
- Hamlet, the village building game.
- Western Legends the Big Box.
- This was a bad project.
- Then we have Literati.
- And then finally today we're taking a look at the Lost Code Reboot.
- My favorite of today, very easily, is Earth.
- all the games I talked about today were delivered, which is a nice change of pace for this show.
- I'm going to try to bring this back in rotation more often.
- Then we have Literati. Literati here from Gap Closer Games. This is a game a cooperative game in which you're fighting against the Literati, the people who don't want folks to read.
- So it's kind of in the middle on BoardGameGeek rankings, but I think it's a very solid game. As you can see I gave it an eight. I enjoy this one.
- And then finally today we're taking a look at the Lost Code Reboot. So the Lost Code Reboot was a remake as we can see here of Think Straight with an eight at the end of it. Uh the Lost Code did not do particularly well here $35,000. This is from Mojito.
- I've given The Lost Code an 8.5, but I think I would have given it even higher rating, but there was still a few production issues. They always seem to have a few production issues.
- I think it's a really solid deduction game.
- My favorite of today, very easily, is Earth. What a fantastic game