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
Pandemic (board game) the first edition(s) along with its compatibility pack(s). Six spinoffs or alternate versions of "Pandemic" have been released by Z-Man Games, all of which are stand-alone games and are not compatible with the original or with each other. Released in 2014, "Pandemic: The Cure" is a dice-based game that uses a similar rule set to the original board game but strips down the number of cities and leaves the outcome of turns up to chance via dice rolls. An expansion to the game, "Pandemic: The Cure - Experimental Meds", was released in November 2016, adding a fifth disease and a