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Mysterium
In the 1920s, Mr. MacDowell, a gifted astrologer, immediately detected a supernatural being upon entering his new house in Scotland. He gathered eminent mediums of his time for an extraordinary séance, and they have seven hours to make contact with the ghost and investigate any clues that it can provide to unlock an old mystery. Unable to talk, the amnesiac ghost communicates with the mediums through visions, which are represented in the game by illustrated cards. The mediums must decipher the images to help the ghost remember how he was murdered: Who did the crime? Where did it take place? Which weapon caused the death? The more the mediums cooperate and guess well, the easier it is to catch the right culprit.
What is Mysterium
In the 1920s, Mr. MacDowell, a gifted astrologer, immediately detected a supernatural being upon entering his new house in Scotland. He gathered eminent mediums of his time for an extraordinary séance, and they have seven hours to make contact with the ghost and investigate any clues that it can provide to unlock an old mystery. Unable to talk, the amnesiac ghost communicates with the mediums through visions, which are represented in the game by illustrated cards. The mediums must decipher the images to help the ghost remember how he was murdered: Who did the crime? Where did it take place? Which weapon caused the death? The more the mediums cooperate and guess well, the easier it is to catch the right culprit.
In Mysterium, a reworking of the game system present in Tajemnicze Domostwo, one player takes the role of ghost while everyone else represents a medium. To solve the crime, the ghost must first recall (with the aid of the mediums) all of the suspects present on the night of the murder. A number of suspect, location and murder weapon cards are placed on the table, and the ghost randomly assigns one of each of these in secret to a medium.
Each hour (i.e., game turn), the ghost hands one or more vision cards face up to each medium, refilling their hand to seven each time they share vision cards. These vision cards present dreamlike images to the mediums. Once the ghost has handed cards to the final medium, players have two minutes to place their token on a suspect. They may also place clairvoyancy tokens on the guesses made by other mediums to show whether they agree or disagree with those guesses.
Once a medium has correctly guessed the suspect, location and weapon, they move their token to the epilogue board. If one or more mediums fail to identify their proper suspect, location and weapon before the end of the seventh hour, then the ghost has failed and dissipates, leaving the mystery unsolved. If, however, they have all succeeded, then the ghost has recovered enough of its memory to identify the culprit.
Game details
- Players
- 2–7
- Age
- +10
- Duration
- 42 min
- Difficulty
- Light
- Type
- Board game
- Year
- 2015
- Mechanics
- Communication Limits · Cooperative Game · Deduction
- Categories
- Deduction · Horror · Murder / Mystery
- Designer
- Oleksandr Nevskiy · Oleg Sidorenko
- Publisher
- Libellud · ADC Blackfire Entertainment · Enigma (Bergsala Enigma) · Esdevium
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[ESP] Clue + Dixit. Me gusta Clue pero no Dixit, y para rematar no soy muy afecto a los cooperativos. Así que lógicamente lo único que me gusta de Mysterium es el arte.
Es una mezcla interesante de Cluedo en la que en una sesión de espiritismo el muerto te manda mensajes con la mecánica Dixit. Me pareció complicado recibir los mensajes a menos que fuera terriblemente obvio (por color, forma o semejante) y no disfruté demasiado el juego. Lo bueno es que las cartas son fantásticas para jugar a Dixit, muy evocadoras.
Just not my cup of tea. Cooperative game with a lot of Dixit spirit that in the end made me feel like in a psichoanalysis session. I do give credit to the creativity in the game, and I do not mean it does not work, but I just did not enjoy the game.
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Salamanca (de Cristian)
La versión súper mejorada del Clue más la idea genial del Dixit
Regalo reyes Dani
We like it specially as a party game. Setup takes some time, which stops us from bringing it to the table as a 2-player game. Artwork is top-notch. Playing with the soundtrack is fun.
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How many players is Mysterium for?
Mysterium plays with 2–7 players.
How long does a game take?
A game takes about 42 minutes.
What age is it suitable for?
It is recommended from age 10.
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