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"Twelve clues. Twelve keys. Twelve days of Christmas. But how many will die before Twelfth Night? The annual Christmas Game is afoot at Endgame House, the Armitages' grand family home. This year's prize is to die for-deeds to the house itself-but Lily Armitage has no intention of returning. She hasn't been back to Endgame since her mother died, twenty-one years ago, and she has no intention of claiming the house that haunts her dreams. Until, that...
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Grey Fox Games
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Players find themselves in a scenario of intrigue and murder, deduction and deception. One player is the Murderer, secretly choosing their weapon and the evidence they leave behind. Another is the Forensic Scientist who holds the key to convincing the criminal but is only able to to express their knowledge through analysis of the scene. The rest are investigators, interpreting the clues to solve the crime - and the killer is among them. Investigators...
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Hasbro
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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Your fear will grow with each tile you place as you investigate a house filled with dreadful monsters and deadly secrests. As you brave your way through each unique room, you and the other explorers must rely on each other to survive the horrors that await. But beware: The house will turn one of you against the rest. It will take all of your strengths and skills to defeat the traitor and escape the Betrayal at House on the Hill.
5) Mysterium
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Asmodee Editions LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"In this asymmetric cooperative game, one player adopts the role of the ghost and the others play as psychics. All players share the same goal of shedding light on the strange circumstances surrounding the ghost's death and laying his spirit to rest at last. Unable to speak, the ghost attempts to communicate by sending visions to the gathered psychics, who will be ble to reconstruct the events of the fateful evening by correctly interpreting these...
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"A remote hotel. A murder mystery. A missing woman. Everyone has a role to play, but what's real and what's part of the game? The weekend getaway at a gorgeous hotel should have been perfect. But Becca is smarting from her husband Blake's betrayal and knows that the trip is just an expensive apology attempt. Still, the drinks are strong, and the weekend has an elaborate 1920s murder mystery theme. She decides to get into the spirit and enjoy their...
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Encyclopedia Brown volume 12
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English
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The solutions to ten mysteries solved by Leroy "Encyclopedia" Brown are given in a separate section challenging the reader to match wits with the ten-year-old mastermind of Idaville's war on crime.
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Fantasy Flight Games
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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Eldritch Horror is a cooperative adventure game for 1-8 players, inspired by the best-selling Arkham Horror board game.
The world is on the cusp of catastrophe as an evil and ancient being begins to stir. Vicious monsters, dark cults, and indescribable horrors are wreaking havoc on every continent, while gates to other worlds tear at the fabric of the cosmos. Struggling against this impending doom are a few brave souls, diverse in background but...
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JD Éditions SPACE Cowboys
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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A cooperative game where the players, members of the Baker Street Irregulars, try to solve mysterious cases by walking the streets in search of clues. Players attempt to unravel the string of intrigues, answer a series of questions and compare their detective skills to those of the master sleuth himself, Sherlock Holmes.
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Chicken House/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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When her father, an ex-soldier suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD, is arrested for murder, Emily's efforts to exonerate him take her into the woods to play the Game, an extreme version of childhood games.
15) Elder sign
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Fantasy Flight Games
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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Players investigate the museum that has become the focal point of strange creatures. Players' courage and skill will earn rewards to seal away the Ancient One and win the game.
Gilman felt that the twilight abysses around him were those of the fourth dimension. Those organic entities whose motions seemed least flagrantly irrelevant and unmotivated were probably projections of life-forms from our own planet, including human beings. What the others...
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Geronimo Stilton. Thea Stilton volume 33
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Taking a road trip to San Jose along Route 66 while stopping in Chicago, St. Louis, and other iconic cities, the Thea Sisters are dismayed to learn that an unknown saboteur has wiped a special video game project off of a programmer friend's computer.
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Z-Man games
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Discover a thrilling adventure investigating criminal activity and a dark history in your town. Haunted by the mystery of the missing owner of the Marsden Mansion, you decide to take the case on yourself. With your psychic senses and skills as a detective, you're confident you can solve the mystery. Explore the mansion and unravel its secrets. Cross paths with ghostly figures, navigate a secrets rooms, and conquer challenges. Think carefully as you...
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Kudo kids volume 1
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Accompanying their journalist parents to the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, twelve-year-old Andy Kudo and his eleven-year-old sister Mika find themselves immersed in an augmented reality game developed by a former Olympic medalist, that brings players together from all over the world to search Tokyo for virtual medals and clues to the secretive creator's identity.
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Lunch Lady volume 9
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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"Tech gadgets are disappearing left and right at school, and Lunch Lady must get to the bottom of it!"--
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JD Éditions, SPACE Cowboys
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Jack the Ripper & West End Adventures is a standalone expansion to Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective with updated graphics that features ten more cases to be solved in Sherlock Holmes' Victorian-era London, England. A "London Directory", map, and newspaper archives are included with the cases. Included are six independent "West End Adventures" cases (redesigned and updated from the 1995 expansion), and a series...
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