Deduction board game are drawn at random. Notable members of this category include "Black Box" and "Master Mind". Investigation games are board games in which the players generally play as police, detectives or other investigators. The best known game of this type is "Cluedo". In fact, many of games in this category utilize a mechanic known as "The Missing Card," which was developed by Anthony E. Pratt for "Cluedo" ("Clue" in the United States). "The Missing Card" takes a known set of cards (or other token) and removes one or more of them. By gathering information and using deduction and logic, the players
Swordquest (board game) commented that ""Swordquest", in many ways, is a nice game, at a reasonable price. It is not too complex for the new gamer, at which it is primarily aimed. I wish I could recommend it. If you don't mind composing rules as you play, you might check it out." Swordquest (board game) Swordquest is a 1979 board game published by Task Force Games. "Swordquest" is a game in which good, evil, and druidic forces search the towns of the land of Tirrane, hoping to find the lost sword of Lumina. Bruce Campbell reviewed "Swordquest" in "The Space Gamer" No. 28.