Whitechapel you can get here - www.miniaturemarket.com/ffgva88.html Think Str8 here - www.grooves-inc.com/think-str8-spl-878960-think-str8-spiel-toys-spielzeug-pZZa1-2097777256.html?language=en&currency=USD&gclid=Cj0KCQjwlMXMBRC1ARIsAKKGuwiqWri_jKR9ynfKW3sAPlWgrdCwsFUkDLnrRRtFVEYNOljzlE3iAnoaAkSnEALw_wcB Mystery Express - expensive since out of print, but here - boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/65907/mystery-express/marketplace/geekmarket Inkognito - www.walmart.com/ip/Inkognito-Multi-Colored/40522187?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=285&adid=22222222227028129920&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=55885902071&wl4=pla-92547560471&wl5=9030055&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=111838799&wl11=online&wl12=40522187&wl13=&veh=sem

I almost bought Mystery Express when it came out but then I got Mystery of the Abbey as a gift and never got around to buying it before it went out of print. It is a shame because Mystery of the Abbey never ended up working for me. I agree Letters from Whitechapel is the best hidden movement game. Another deduction game I really like Lady Alice. I think it is often overlooked.

Literally just bought Inkognito because it looks great. I'm getting Mystery of the Abbey based off your review, did not expect it to miss the list.

Very original list. Love it! I would've guessed maybe one right, maybe zero. :)

Thanks! Would love to see a list like this that was broad enough to include games that have other elements too (e.g., Alchemists)

Can't wait for ''Awkward Guests'', it looks like the perfect mystery/crime solving deduction game!

Thanks for this Video Dan. Enjoying your output and so are my friends :)

Hi Dan! I'm a big deduction games fan as well, which is why I find this list very helpful - thank you. I realize this video is short of 3 years old, which is why I'd like you to please consider making an updated one. If you don't feel like that's something you might do soon, maybe just provide titles in the reply? Deduction games are still, I feel, a niche, but there have been some new list candidates coming up for the last couple of years. In particular, I'm wondering if Cryptid would make that top5 for you now?

Deduction games are my favorite too! I actually prefer Scotland Yard over Letters from Whitechapel, mainly because the feel is very similar, but Letters can drag too long, especially with high player counts.

I have this simple 10 minute filler deduction game called three of a crime that I love

I absolutely love Code 777, where would it have ended up on this list? Has Think Str8 replaced It for you? Pity the components are so terrible...

I was always interested in seeing this list - I wondered what your thoughts were comparing Mystery Express to Mystery of the Abbey - but now we can see that Abbey is not in your Top 5 - out of curiosity where would it sit - I have always been curious about it but never went after it cause I own Express

Sleuth has been popping up quite a bit recently and I'm very interested in it. The problem is, I can't seem to find it without paying extra costs for it being rare, on top of even higher costs for shipping from other countries. Does anyone know of a print n play version of this somewhere? Even under a different name? I'm happy to pay, just not happy to pay ludicrous amounts!

Thanks for sharing! How would you compare "letters from white chapel " with "fury of Dracula"? Would "fury of Dracula " make your top ten?

So where would be a good place to get some of these?

I'm very late to this video. My favorite type of game is deduction (as well as hidden identity). WHY don't they make more deduction games, at least great ones? It seems the market is glutted with area-control, resource management, civilization-building games. or the games are outrageously complex with 100 or more pieces and a rule book that's 50+ pages with at least as many "scenarios". Let's not forget the board games that try to mimic video games. If I wanted to play a video game, I'd play one. I believe in your overall philosophy of a great game, that it needs to have the proper depth to complexity ratio, i.e. a simple game on its face that's easy to teach and learn, but yet can be played on many levels with varying degrees of strategy, and with players of different skill levels. Therefore, it has a decent amount of depth without being very complex. They just don't make many games like that. Most board game creators unnecessarily over-complicate their games in an effort to be original or creative, which only harms the playability and, I feel, the overall success of the game. Love or hate Clue, there is a reason it's lasted 50+ years on store shelves. It's much harder to do something well in a simple way rather than in a complex one. It's like authors who take 900 pages to tell a story, when it would have been much better executed in 350. It's the depth-to-complexity challenge that I feel we don't have more great board games, and certainly ones that will be deemed classics outside the niche board game community and on store shelves 50 years from now.

Only if ToS was a board game

I never disagree with GBG reviews and opinions but Mystery Express was headache inducing for our group. Bleh.

Where would Deception: Murder in Hong Kong fit on your list?