This post details the popular 221B Baker Street board game.
Join Sherlock Holmes in solving intriguing cases across Victorian London!
You’ll need your sleuthing skills to collect clues and make deductions.
This board game is suitable for ages 10 and up. For 2 to 6 players.
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221B Baker Street Board Game
From: Gibsons Games/John N. Hansen | Number of players: 1 to 6 | Age rating: 10+
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]
Game Play and Features
- Join Sherlock Holmes to solve intriguing cases.
- At the start of each game, the details of the case will be read aloud.
- Use your powers of deduction to solve the case. And return to Baker Street with the correct solution.
- In your turn, you will move around the streets of London in any direction you choose.
- Visit various locations where you will collect clues. Some of which will be cryptic. Some will be factual. And others may be misleading!
- The game is packed with opportunities to obstruct and outwit opponents.
- Solve 75 cases in UK version linked below. Or 200 cases in deluxe US version linked below.
*221B Baker Street Board Game available from UK Amazon and US Amazon.
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