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The pawns are half transparent, so that you can see the numbered locations. His location is secret.Ĭlose-up of the streets of New York.

Four detectives at their randomly drawn start positions. Something like this is useful for Ticket to Ride too. X to hide his eyes, so that the other players cannot see which part of the board he is looking at. The game comes with this hat-like thing, to allow Mr. The detectives need to plan for these rounds too, to make sure they are at strategic locations to be able to react quickly the moment Mr. He needs to make sure he is at a place with many escape routes. X needs to plan ahead for the rounds when he has to reveal his location. Scotland Yard would be even simpler, without helicopters or roadblocks. The detectives need to work together, just like in any cooperative game. The game is a lot of deduction (for the detectives) and bluffing (for Mr. There are also road blocks (if you play with less than the maximum number of detectives allowed) that can be set up when a detective leaves a location. The detectives have a helicopter which can be used 3 times in the whole game to transport one detective quickly to any place in the city.

He also has some black tickets (wild cards) which can hide his mode of transportation, and can also be used to take a ferry, which the detectives can't take (NYPD forgot to buy them some ferry tickets I guess). X has two double-move cards which can help him to get out if tight spots. If he is captured (by simply being on the same spot as another detective), he loses. X can last until all detectives are unable to move anymore, he wins. Once he uses up his tickets, he cannot move anymore. X.Įach detective has a limited number of tickets for the 3 types of transportation. The detectives need to make good use of such opportunities to quickly surround and corner Mr. X must reveal his location, making himself vulnerable. The only clues he leaves are the modes of tranportation used to get from one location to the next (taxi, bus or subway). X moves secretly and records his trail secretly on a piece of paper. New York Chase is a game about a team of detectives trying to catch Mr.

Maybe it was because it has more elements - the helicopter and roadblocks. Chong Sean has both Scotland Yard and New York Chase. I actually intended to try Scotland Yard (played on a map of London), which is the older game and is very similar. X (game owner / cafe owner is normally asked to do the honours of being on the lonely one-man team), Han, Kevin, Choo (2 new friends) and I played the detectives. I played a 5-player game of New York Chase at Carcasean boardgame cafe on.