221B Baker Street, published in full as 221B Baker Street: The Master Detective Game, is a deduction and mystery board game built around Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. It was developed by Jay Moriarty under the name Antler Productions in 1975 and has been sold in the United States by the John N. Hansen Company since 1977. Players take on the role of investigators who move around a board representing London locations, gathering clues to solve a series of mystery cases drawn from a card deck. The original game shipped with twenty cases, and over the following years eight expansion sets added a further one hundred sixty cases through 1986, with a 2016 deluxe edition adding twenty more cases to the collection.
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221B Baker Street: The Master Detective Game is a board game featuring Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective Sherlock Holmes and developed by Jay Moriarty (dba Antler Productions) in 1975 and sold by the John N. Hansen Co. in the US since 1977.
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