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
Sniper! (board game) "Close Assault" has been mentioned. "Battle Cry" may be one of them; it was released in 1986 by 3W. "Soldiers" was released by West End Games in 1987, focusing on World War II man-to-man combat. In January–February 1990 (over a year following Winter's comments), S&T Magazine released "Iron Cross" in issue number 132, which was billed as "Man to Man Combat on the Eastfront 1941-42." Sniper! (board game) Sniper! was a board wargame originally released in 1973. Some sources refer to "Sniper/Patrol" as a sort of series of games: a similar game by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) was released at