Dust Off Your Magnifying Glass For These New Mystery Games From Ravensburger And ThinkFun

Games Ravensburger ThinkFun Scotland Yard: Sherlock Holmes Edition echoes: The Cursed Ring Cold Case: End of the Line Escape the Room: Murder in the Mafia Image Safe about a year agoby Anna Williams

Ravensburger and ThinkFun have some fun new mystery games to help spice up game night. Among these is a new 40th anniversary edition of Scotland Yard featuring Sherlock Holmes. If you enjoy solving mysteries then here’s the list of games you’ll want to check out:

Ravensburger Games
- Scotland Yard: Sherlock Holmes Edition
  - Celebrate 40 years of Ravensburger’s classic board game with a Sherlock Holmes twist! Professor Moriarty is on the run. He was last spotted escaping in a hot air balloon over the Thames. Use your deductive reasoning to catch him, but beware: Moriarty is dangerous and concocting more crimes. (Ages 10+ / $39.99 MSRP / Available on Amazon)
- echoes: The Cursed Ring
  - Ravensbuger’s echoes line is a highly immersive audio mystery series where players use a deck of illustrated cards and spine-tingling sound clues to complete a story and solve a mystery. In echoes: The Cursed Ring, a mysterious heirloom places a young woman in danger. Is the ring cursed? Listen to echoes from the past to discover the truth. (Ages 14+ / $10.99 MSRP / Available on Amazon)
ThinkFun Games
- Cold Case: End of the Line
  - Two murders plague Pauvigny, France. Packed with realistic documents pertaining to the crime, use your best investigative skills to crack the case. Great to solve solo or with a small group of friends, Cold Case: End of the Line has twists and turns for hours of exciting play. (Ages 14+ / $11.99 MSRP / Available on Amazon)
- Escape the Room: Murder in the Mafia
  - The first thing you notice when you enter your office is Mickey Malone's dead body. Mickey was the chief enforcer for the local mafia. You've had your run-ins with Mickey and might treat news of his death as a good thing, if it wasn't your gun on the floor next to him. Man, you hate Mondays. (Ages 14+ / $34.99 MSRP / Available on Amazon)

If you need a place to start on this list, I really recommend Echoes. I’ve played a different scenario for it, but it was really fun. It doesn’t have much of a replay value unless you wait long enough to forget the solution, but the price is low enough that it isn’t much of a problem. I think all of these sound pretty fun but I think I’m most intrigued by Escape the Room: Murder in the Mafia. What do you think, do you enjoy a good mystery game? Which one would you most want to play?