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
The Emerald Tablet (board game) superior. If you want a game that can show what magic was like under the tutelage of Albertus Magnus or with the Key of Solomon, this is your game. If that's not what you want, stay well away." The Emerald Tablet (board game) The Emerald Tablet is a 1977 board game published by Creative Wargames Workshop. "The Emerald Tablet" is a set of fantasy miniatures rules on selecting a building virtually any army from before the Thirty Years War and detailed battle magic rules. Glenn Williams reviewed "The Emerald Tablet" in "The Space Gamer" No. 37. Williams commented that "By