Table feel
Moderate level of direct confrontation and strategic depth, with high interaction frequency. Limited emphasis on cooperation.
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Painter Detective
User summary: ????? (Nigaoe Tantei) is Painter Detective. In the game of Painter Detective, one player takes the role of detective, and the others are the witnesses. Each suspect card depicts a face of a suspect, and a criminal is chosen randomly from 48 suspect cards. The witnes...
Players
3-7
Time
?-?
Age
9+
Weight
?
Rating
6.56
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Moderate level of direct confrontation and strategic depth, with high interaction frequency. Limited emphasis on cooperation.
Teach
2.4
Teaching signal
Replay
3.9
High replayability
Interaction
3.8
Highly interactive
Scaling
4.1
Scales well
Strategy
4.7
Deep strategy
Control
3.0
Luck-sensitive
Replay value
Painter Detective has a high replayability score due to its strong variability in gameplay, strategic depth, and scalability. The game offers different experiences each time it is played, with the presence of expansions adding new content and gameplay elements. Players have ample room to improve their strategy over time, and the game adapts well to different player counts. While it may take some time to learn, the depth it offers makes it worth the investment.
Luck profile
The final luck score for Painter Detective is 6, indicating a balanced mix of luck and strategy. Random elements have a notable but not exclusive impact on the game outcome, and players have substantial ability to mitigate randomness through strategic decisions and planning. The game outcome is primarily determined by player strategy and decisions, with luck playing a moderate role.
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User summary: ????? (Nigaoe Tantei) is Painter Detective. In the game of Painter Detective, one player takes the role of detective, and the others are the witnesses. Each suspect card depicts a face of a suspect, and a criminal is chosen randomly from 48 suspect cards. The witnesses looks at the face of the criminal and memorize its characteristics in five seconds. Then each witness is assigned one or two face parts they must explain, and describes the criminal's characteristics by verbal method only. The detective listens to the descriptions and draws a composite sketch, and tells the criminal from the suspect cards. In 2016, a female edition was published jointly with YACO, called Painter Detective Girl ???????? (Nigaoe Tantei Garu). Gameplay is the same, the artwork by ?? ??? (Yuko Yano) shows only female characteristics. The publishers says on the box "The Painter Detective receives the request, it's a "Search of the Lost Girl"! Let's make the portrait from the unclear information by some witness. This game is the party game with the memory, the observation and the drawing.". Publisher's summary: ??????????????????????????????????? ????????????48????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????????????????????
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Designers
3
Jyujin Ohtsubo (?????????)
Yacoyon
Yuko Yano (?? ???)
Artists
5
Maeda (???)
Ivan Nikulin
Jyujin Ohtsubo (?????????)
Yacoyon
Yuko Yano (?? ???)
Publishers
3
Cocktail Games
Joynt Game Factory (??????????????)
Yaco
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