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
Crossfire (board game) Crossfire (board game) Crossfire is a board game created by the Milton Bradley Company in 1971. The object of the game is to score goals by pushing one of the two pucks into the opposing player's goal. This task is accomplished by shooting small metal ball bearings at the pucks using the attached guns. The earliest version of the game featured a flat board, whereas the new board is dome-shaped. This causes the ball bearings to roll into the players' bins more easily, but can cause the pucks to indefinitely rest at the edges of the board. The two pucks