Museum Suspects Review

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We review Museum Suspects, a family weight game published by Blue Orange Games. Museum Suspects is a good replacement for Clue and will let players try and deduce who is guilty of the hiest.

There has been a heist from the local art museum. And you take the role of detective trying to determine which of the 16 suspects that are still trapped inside the building are guilty. Clearly, these cartoon animals aren’t the best thieves considering they didn’t make it out of the building… Ocean’s 16 they are not.

Regardless, Museum Suspects is a family weight deduction game that will have you eliminating suspects and hopefully narrowing it down until you can reveal the culprits.

The gameplay in Museum Suspects is as simple as can be. The suspects will be laid out in a 4-by-4 grid and eight clues will be put at the ends of each row. Players will get a stack of twelve tokens, numbered 1-6 (the mix is slightly different for each player depending on turn order).

On your turn, you must look at a clue card and put one of your numbered tokens on it. If there is already a numbered token there from another player you have to use an equal or higher token. Each clue will help eliminate suspects from the grid. Each card will eliminate up to 4 suspects. However, since the game comes with 24 suspects and you only use 16 there is always a bit of variance in how useful a clue might be.

After looking at the clue (and probably marking it down on the helpfully included tracking sheet) you must then place another token on a suspect you believe is guilty. This token is placed face down and hidden from other players.

Play continues in this way for 6 rounds. There is a possibility that no one is guilty and you can place a token on the exit to get on