Incredible! The shifty thief who operates undisturbed from months is about to be caught! After copious failures, a team of detectives has a secret weapon: a witness. However this witness is quite weird; he doesn't remember anything about the appearance of the criminal, but he knows everything about their habits and behavior. Will the investigative team be able to find out the criminal only from these elements?
In Insoliti Sospetti ("Unusual Suspects"), one player is the Witness and the other players play the part of the Investigative Team. The Witness knows the real identity of the Guilty and tries to make the Team hit it only with his answers. The Team asks questions to the Witness and, depending on his answers, will exclude the innocent suspects after players have discussed what they learned.
Insoliti Sospetti can also be played competitively or collaboratively (team vs team). In the latter case, a grid of twelve suspects is created. Every round the team reveals a question card and the Witness has to answer yes/no. According to the answer, the team has to remove suspects until only the Guilty one is on the board.
- Cabo
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- this for me is not work it's fun and I intend to keep it that way
- I value meaningful decisions more than anything else, what is the consequence to my actions
- I would 100% choose to teach a game over being taught to the game
- quantity over quality is a key point I think harms the hobby
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- easy to learn
- works well with large groups
- promotes discussion and laughter
- fun social deduction with cartoonish characters
- may feel shallow for some players
- judgments based on appearance could be awkward
- deduction from social cues and appearances; playful mystery
- A party game with a grid of character cards in the center; one player knows the guilty person and answers yes/no questions.
- light, humorous social deduction
- Storage Wars
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- Character elimination — Players eliminate character options each round until a final suspect remains.
- Question-based deduction — The guilty person is identified through yes/no questions; players use answers to narrow down suspects.
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- it's just a really interesting game where everyone is making judgments based on these players faces
- it's a fun silly party game
- it's very easy to learn the rules are super simple
- a party game that works with big groups
- there's a brilliant kind of bluffing element to it
- comes in this amazing box with a magnetic lid
- the loot is thematic you can get a Persian cat out of one of the safes
- this is easily already in my top five Cooperative games
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- Battle of the Shelf, part seven. And today we've got the most dangerous shelf of them all.
- Let's figure out the top five games from this shelf over here.
- This is not the Lord of the Rings cooperative game. This is an entirely different game that was made by like Roseart, people who did crayons.
- Oh, we're doomed. We're doomed is so good.
- Top five. Let's go.