Game Info

Paranormal Detectives
2 - 6 players
average 40 minutes
Published in
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You open your eyes to discover the most horrible truth of a lifetime... It has just come to an end and you are a ghost, floating in the air! Terrified, you look at your own body. A group of strange individuals have gathered around your mortal remains, watching it closely with sparks of fascination in their eyes. They want to communicate with you to discover how your life ended. You need to talk to them and reveal the truth so the culprit can be judged! Paranormal Detectives is a deduction party game. One player takes the role of a Ghost. All other players work as Paranormal Detectives and need to discover how the victim died. Using paranormal abilities they will communicate with the Ghost, asking open questions about the details of the crime. The Ghost answers in a variety of ghostly ways - by arranging a hangman’s knot, playing chosen tarot cards, creating a word puzzle on a talking board, drawing by holding the hand of a detective and many more! At the beginning of the game, the Ghost player receives a story card with a full description of the murder. Each card depicts all the details of the case. Each Detective receives asymmetrical, pre-constructed set of interaction cards, player investigation sheet, and a player screen. On their turn, each Detective asks the Ghost any open question they want and plays a single interaction card. The card implies the way the Ghost may answer the question. There are 9 different interactions total, most of them giving information to all Detectives. Since Detectives may ask any open questions and interaction cards vary, the game allows for lots of creativity for both the Ghost and Paranormal Detectives. Detectives may try, twice during the game, to guess what has actually happened to the victim stating who was the killer, where did it happen, what was the motive, how was it done and what was the murder weapon. Then the Ghost writes down secretly on this Detective’s investigation sheet how many of their answers are correct. The game can end in two ways: If a Detective gives all correct answers. In this case, they win, together with the Ghost player. If all Detectives run out of interaction cards. In this case, if no one has guessed everything correctly then, whoever guessed correctly the most information is the sole winner of the game!

Overall Statistics for 2022 Nerd Weekend

Total Games Played: 2
Average Players Per Game 5.5

Win/Loss Statistics for 2022 Nerd Weekend

Badges Name   NemePoints   Total Games   Avg. NemePoints   Wins / Losses % Won  
Ben 26  2 13.00 
1
1
50 %
Trevor 26  2 13.00 
1
1
50 %
Brett 24  2 12.00 
1
1
50 %
ericdickens 24  2 12.00 
1
1
50 %
Bennet 12  2 6.00 
0
2
0 %
Corbin 1 6.00 
0
1
0 %

    Last 2 Played Games for 2022 Nerd Weekend

    Date Played Result
    2/20/2022
    1st Brett
    18 
    18 
    2nd Bennet
    2nd Ben
    2nd Trevor
    2/19/2022
    1st Ben
    20 
    1st Trevor
    20 
    2nd Corbin
    2nd Brett
    2nd Bennet