10 Top Sherlock Holmes Board Games including New Releases

The Sherlock Files Volume I Elementary Entries

This post details ten top Sherlock Holmes board, card, mystery dinner party and escape room games! All available on Amazon UK and US.

With a range of games suitable for kids, tweens, teens and adults.

For more top mystery-solving games based on famous fictional sleuths, see my posts listed below.

10 Top Sherlock Games

1. Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Baker Street Irregulars

From: Space Cowboys | Number of Players: 1 to 8 players | Age rating: 14+

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

Plot: In 1880, Sherlock Holmes appointed a group of street children as The Baker Street Irregulars, his unofficial “police force”. This is their story, and the story of a particular year that thrusts the Irregulars and the master detective into a series of challenging and dangerous events.

Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective The Baker Street Irregulars Game
Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective The Baker Street Irregulars Board Game

For details of this Sherlock Holmes game Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective 4: The Baker Street Irregulars Game.

*Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective 4: The Baker Street Irregulars Game available from UK Amazon and US Amazon.

More games in the Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective series: 1. Jack the Ripper and West End Adventures | 2. Carlton House & Queen’s Park | 3. The Thames Murders and Other Cases.

2. 221B Baker Street Board Game

From: Gibsons Games/John N. Hansen | Number of players: 1 to 6 | Age rating: 10+.

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

Description: Players travel through the streets and alleys of Victorian London picking up clues while attempting to solve intriguing Sherlock Holmes Adventures written especially for this game. The game can be played competitively by 2 or more individuals or teams. Or it can be played as a cooperative game, with all players teaming up as Baker Street Irregulars to help Holmes solve the case. When played this way, the group bands together to decide which of the locations to visit first, and the meaning of each clue is discussed by the group. The game can also be played solitaire. [Source: Amazon]

For details of this Sherlock Holmes game 221B Baker Street Board Game for 2 to 6 Players.

*221B Baker Street Board Game available from UK Amazon and US Amazon.

3. Cluedo Sherlock Edition Board Game

From: Winning Moves | Number of Players: 3-6 | Age rating: 9+.

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

Description: The enigmatic series Sherlock retells the tale of England’s most celebrated detective – and now Sherlock Holmes and John Watson’s adventures in 21st century London are the centrepiece for their own version of the classic game of Cluedo! Who killed Moriarty? Was it Mrs Hudson, in the Tower of London with the Wrench, or Irene Adler, in 221B, with a Candlestick? You’ll need all your wits about you to find out! [Source: Amazon]

For more top Cluedo games: 10 Top Cluedo Variations and Versions on Amazon UK.

*Cluedo Sherlock Edition Board Game available from UK Amazon.

4. Sherlock Holmes The Card Game

From: Gibsons | Number of Players: 3+ | Age rating: 8+ | Format: Detective Card Game.

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

Description: Elementary, my dear Watson. The world famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr Watson are once again on the trail of those notorious arch villains Professor Moriarty and Colonel Sebastian Moran. Travel with them by hansom cab and train as you seek clues and suspects. [Source: Amazon]

Sherlock Holmes Card Game Perfect Gift for Mystery and Puzzle Fans
Sherlock Holmes Card Game Perfect Gift for Mystery and Puzzle Fans

For details of this Sherlock Holmes game Sherlock Holmes Quick-Play Card Game.

*Sherlock Holmes Card Game by Gibsons available from UK Amazon and US Amazon.

5. UNLOCK! Heroic Adventures

From: Space Cowboys | Number of Players: 1-6 | Age rating: 10+ | Format: Escape Game.

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

Description: This box includes 3 new Adventures. In Insert Coin, players must avoid “Game Over” by triumphing over multiple levels of video game adventures! Then in Sherlock Holmes – The Scarlet Thread of Murder, the master sleuth is on a very strange case and needs players’ help to solve the mystery. Finally, In Pursuit of the White Rabbit introduces players to Wonderlands’ weird inhabitants as they help Alice to escape in time!

UNLOCK! is a series of escape adventures for up to six players. With one hour on the clock, players must work through a deck of sixty cards as a team, searching for clues, combining objects, and solving puzzles. The free UNLOCK! companion app runs the timer while providing clues, offering hints, and confirming successes. Once the team has reached a solution and entered the correct code into the app, they win! [Source: Amazon]

For another popular UNLOCK! game Star Wars The Escape Game by Space Cowboys.

*UNLOCK! Heroic Adventures available from French Version – UK Amazon, German Version – UK Amazon and US Amazon.

6. Unfinished Case of Holmes Escape Game

From: iDventure | Number of players: up to 5 players per set | Age rating: 16+ | Format: Escape Game.

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Description: Players will be transported to Victorian era London and will go on an unforgettable journey. Full of challenging riddles and mysteries. With a mission to complete an investigation of a mysterious death started but not finished by Sherlock Holmes. The game is based on an escape room principle where the players need to resolve different types of puzzles in order to proceed to the next level. It is a mixture of an interactive computer game and a detective story. With real objects as pieces of evidence that survived over time. [Source: Amazon]

For details of this Sherlock Holmes game Sherlock Escape Room Game – Unfinished Case of Holmes.

*Unfinished Case of Holmes available from UK Amazon and US Amazon.

7. Holmes, Sherlock & Mycroft

From: DEVIR | Number of Players: 2 | Age rating: 10+ | Format: Board Game.

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Description: The early morning of February 24, 1895 a pump bursts in the London Parliament. Instantly, safety measures are activated and stopped young Michael Chapman, a workman who is associated with anarchist groups. Mycroft Holmes, at the service of the Crown, is responsible for researching the relationship to resolve whether it has been an isolated case or an orchestrated plan. And everything seems easy to solve until it is found that his brother, detective consultant Sherlock Holmes, has been hired by young parents who believe in their child’s innocence. Now, London’s two brightest minds are faced by knowing the involvement of young Chapman. Will it be part of an anarchist group or just a man in the wrong company? [Source: Amazon]

*Holmes, Sherlock & Mycroft available from UK Amazon, Spanish Version – US Amazon and US Amazon.

8. Sherlock Express

From: Blue Orange | Number of Players: 2-6 | Age rating: 7+

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

Description: Help Sherlock unmask culprits and cunningly use clues to find the accomplice of moriarty, his sworn enemy! If no one is Guilty, capture moriarty himself. Everyone is a suspect… Until proven innocent! [Source: Amazon]

*Sherlock Express available from UK Amazon and US Amazon.

9. Beyond Baker Street Board Game

From: Thames & Kosmos | Released: 2023 | Number of Players: 1-4 | Ages: 12+ | Difficulty rating: 3/5 | Format: Boxed escape room board game.

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

Plot: Sherlock Holmes needs your help! The famous journalist Ignatius Loyde was murdered shortly after an article he published portrayed Sherlock Holmes as an imposter. There are leads that make Holmes the prime suspect in the murder…and Holmes has disappeared!

EXIT Disappearance of Sherlock Holmes Top Sherlock Escape Board Game Amazon UK US
EXIT Disappearance of Sherlock Holmes – Top Sherlock Escape Board Game

Dr. Watson has turned to you to get to the bottom of things. How did Holmes become the accused? And what role did Moriarty play?

*EXIT: The Disappearance of Sherlock Holmes available from UK Amazon and US Amazon.

10. Sherlock Files VolI: Elementary Entries

From: Indie Boards & Cards | Number of Players: 1-8 | Age rating: 14+.

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Description: Are you a modern mastermind detective? The Sherlock Files includes three confounding cases designed to be solved by one to eight players over the course of an hour. Decipher clues to determine which are relevant to the case and which are not. Share the clues you deem relevant with your detective partners. Which theories will you chase? How will you fare compared to the world’s greatest detective? Work together to solve each case to find out! [Source: Amazon]

For details of all the games in this series: The Sherlock Files Game Series List.

*Sherlock Files Volume I available from UK Amazon and US Amazon.

More Mystery Games with Fictional Sleuths for All Ages

Agatha Christie’s Death On The Cards by Modiphius – Game Review.
Agatha Christie’s The Mystery at Hunter’s Lodge Game by Hunt a Killer.
1920s Agatha Christie Murder Mystery Dinner Party Game: Pyramids of Giza.
1930s Hercule Poirot Game: A First Class Murder by Paul Lamond Games.
Nancy Drew Mystery Party Game: Mystery at Magnolia Gardens from Hunt a Killer.

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