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Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Jack the Ripper & West End Adventures is a standalone expansion to Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective with updated graphics that features ten more cases to be solved in Sherlock Holmes' Victorian-era London, England. A "London Directory", map, and newspaper archives are included with the cases.
Included are six independent "West End Adventures" cases (redesigned and updated from the 1995 expansion), and a series of four new cases based on the Jack the Ripper murders.
Jack the Ripper Cases:
Mary Ann Nichols
Annie Chapman
Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes
Mary Jane Kelly
West End Adventures:
The Strange Case of Dr. Goldfire
The Murder of Sherlock Holmes
A Case of Identity
The Death of a Transylvanian Count
A Royal Huggermugger at the Savage Club
A Simple Case of Murder
- Incredibly simple and intuitive rules.
- Can be played with non-gamers.
- Components are not damaged by play, allowing resale or gifting after completion.
- High water mark for whodunnits.
- The Ripper cases are extremely gruesome and involve real murders.
- The tonal shift between regular and Ripper cases is dramatic.
- Solving cases as one of the Baker Street Irregulars assisting Sherlock Holmes.
- London in the late 1800s
- Spy Club
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Case solving — Players work through cases, following leads, and answering questions to solve them.
- deduction — Players use clues from newspapers, maps, and informants to deduce the solution.
- Push Your Luck — Players can end the game at any point to answer questions, implying a risk/reward element.
- Resource Management (Leads) — Players lose points for following too many leads, suggesting a management of leads.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- Sherlock Holmes Consulting detective: Jack the Ripper and West Ed adventures in about 3 Minutes,
- The best thing about this game is just how dumb Sherlock makes you feel when you read the solutions
- Sherlock Holmes ripper files: needs more holmes and less Alleyways