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
Kremlin (board game) Kremlin (board game) Kremlin is a board game parody of Soviet government. The game takes its name from the Moscow Kremlin, the physical location of the main Soviet government offices. It was designed by Urs Hostettler and originally released in 1986 by the Swiss board game company Fata Morgana under the name "Kreml". An English translation of the game with slightly modified rules was published by Avalon Hill in 1988. In 1989, "Kremlin" won the Origins Award for "Best Boardgame Covering the Period 1900-1946". Each player controls a number of politician cards depicting caricatures of Soviet politicians. These are arranged