Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Game is a board game for one to six players published by Mayfair Games in 1986, licensed from the long-running crime fiction periodical Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Players take on the role of investigators who travel between locations marked on a game board depicting a map of New York City, gathering clues at each stop in order to use deduction to solve one of several mystery scenarios included with the game. As a licensed tie-in to a well-known mystery fiction magazine, the game translated the amateur-detective, clue-gathering appeal of its source material into a physical board game format, placing it within the deduction and mystery genre of board games that ask players to reason through evidence toward a correct solution rather than compete primarily on luck or direct conflict.
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Player CountSmall Group (3-6 Players) 1 Sources
1. Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Game (Wikipedia)
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published by Mayfair Games in 1986
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One to six players
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a board game published by Mayfair Games in 1986
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