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
Close Combat (video game) contains multiplayer support for up to two players. "Close Combat" began production at Atomic Games as "Project X", during the company's time with publisher Three-Sixty Pacific. After breaking with Three-Sixty over business differences, Atomic was signed to Avalon Hills computer game division in 1993 by Jim Rose. Initially, Avalon Hill offered the team a chance to create a one-to-one adaptation of the company's "Squad Leader" board wargame. A computer version of "Squad Leader" had been considered at Avalon Hill for several years, as the game and its sequel, "Advanced Squad Leader", were commercial successes in board form, with sales over