Vendor: WizKids
Type: Board Games
Price:
14.23
Designer |
Ralph H. Anderson Mike Fitzgerald |
Publisher | WizKids |
Players | 2-4 |
Playtime | 45-60 mins |
Suggested Age | 14 and up |
Detective Rummy is a rummy-style card game with a storytelling element revealed in a series of seven different cases. Players take the roles of detectives vying to solve the cases and gain fame.
The story begins at the legendary Rummy Detective Agency, and each case takes you to various locations to solve a crime, including the diner with the best doughnuts in town, the cozy "Quarter to 3 Bar", a ritzy fashion emporium, the circus, the most elite jazz nightclub in town, and more.
The cases in Detective Rummy can be played in two different ways: Campaign Mode and Case Mode. In Campaign Mode, you play all seven cases in order. In Case Mode, you can play cases 2 to 6 as standalone Detective Rummy games one at a time. Since new "Game Changer" cards are discovered in each case in different orders (if at all) each time you play, cases will never resolve the same way twice. You can play both the campaign mode or the individual cases as many times as you like.
Vendor: Eagle-Gryphon Games
Type: Board Games
Price:
15.95
Designer | Ralph H. Anderson |
Publisher | Eagle-Gryphon Games |
Players | 3-5 |
Playtime | 45-90 mins |
Suggested Age | 13 and up |
Reimplements | Chimera |
Vendor: Z-Man Games
Type: Board Games
Price:
19.95
Designer | Ralph H. Anderson |
Publisher | Z-Man Games |
Players | 3 |
Playtime | 45 mins |
Suggested Age | 13 and up |
Reimplemented By | Chimera & More |
Chimera is a three-player card game of two against one similar to climbing- and shedding-based card games like Tichu, The Great Dalmuti, Big Two and Beat the Landlord.
Each hand, one player is designated Chimera and the other two players team up as Chimera Hunters to defeat the Chimera. Players compete for points in several hands of play by playing sequential pairs, trips, straights and other card combinations, and whoever has scored the most points once the designated point score has been reached wins. Chimera is normally played to 400 points, although longer or shorter games can be played.