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Your reputation as a detective will be assured if you're the one who makes the final arrest in Mystery! Motive for Murder. One by one, you interview and re-interview suspects to establish the strengths of their relationships with the victim. Which of the guests had the greatest motive to commit murder?
Mystery! Motive for Murder, due out in mid-October 2015, is for 1-5 players and carries a $35 MSRP. Mayfair Games notes in its press material that the Mystery! name is licensed from WGBH for its television anthology series of the same name, and that series featured Gorey's illustrations in its opening shots:
• Another forthcoming title from Mayfair Games is King Chocolate from Stefan Alexander, due out in November 2015. Here's an overview of the setting and gameplay:
Sometimes you need to help your customers and suppliers to help yourself. If you are wily, you can figure out a way for your competitors to do the work for you. Create monopolies, cut off the supply chain, disrupt other players' finely honed plans — do whatever it takes to become King Chocolate.
The fruit of the cacao tree goes through six steps to become chocolate. You can control only a few of these steps, so you must work with your fellow chocolate makers to keep the chocolate flowing through the production chain. It sounds cooperative and friendly — but did we mention that the chocolate maker with the most money wins? Things always get complicated when money is involved.
To ensure your portion of the production process is used the most so that it earns you cash, occasionally you'll help your customers and suppliers. At the same time, you will attempt to crush your competitors, force others to help you, and manipulate the supply chain.
You'll do whatever it takes to become the king of chocolate.
Lovely cover, by the way...
• Publisher IDW Games has told me that more details will come for the Matt Riddle and Ben Pinchback title Back to the Future: An Adventure Through Time in October 2015, but for now we know that this design is a "role-selection, time travel, hand management kinda thing", which is good enough to get us started. Yay, time travel!