Scotland Yard - Board Game

This is one of my teenage years' favourites. We spent hours on dark December evenings in our cabin up in the Norwegian fjell, playing Scotland Yard. The rules are easy to understand and it is a kind of hide-and-seek, with the group hunting Mr. X, who travels unseen and pops up every now and then. The only clues the group has are the tickets Mr. X uses to travel around London. It never gets boring,... read more

In Scotland Yard, one of the players takes on the role of Mr. X. His job is to move from point to point around the map of London taking taxis, buses or subways. The detectives – that is, the remaining players acting in concert – move around similarly in an effort to move into the same space as Mr. X. But while the criminal's mode of transportation is nearly always known, his exact location is only known intermittently throughout the game.