jeff@hpcnoe.UUCP (02/05/86)
|Scotland Yard | For 3-6 players (according to the box, however it is playable |by 2), From playing the game, it seems that the funnest part of the game is playing Mr. X. The problem is that there is more detectives than Mr. X. A solution (which we haven't tried yet) is to play two games simultaneously with two people (needs two sets). That way, everyone gets to play Mr. X. This also avoids the problem of the detectives taking too long. | You might think that with those advantages, Mr. X would get |away all the time. Not so. True, at first. There are certain strategies which seem to give Mr. X an advantage. But since people don't play Mr. X that often, these strategies are not discovered. Detective skills, however, seem to hone up fast since you get to play them more often. -- Jeff Wu ..{ihnp4|hplabs}!hpfcla!j_wu
desj@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (David desJardins) (02/20/86)
In article <8400006@hpcnoe.UUCP> jeff@hpcnoe.UUCP writes: >| You might think that with those advantages, Mr. X would get >|away all the time. Not so. > >True, at first. There are certain strategies which seem to give >Mr. X an advantage. But since people don't play Mr. X that often, >these strategies are not discovered. Detective skills, however, >seem to hone up fast since you get to play them more often. Can we have some discussion of these strategies? I have played several one-on-one games as detectives against my brother playing Mr. X, and I nearly always seem to win. Would anyone who really thinks the game is balanced like to play against my detectives via net mail? -- David desJardins