You open your eyes to discover the most horrible truth of a lifetime It has just come to an end & you are a ghost floating in the air! Terrified you look at your own body A group of strange individuals have gathered around your mortal remains watching it closely with sparks of fascination in their eyes They want to communicate with you to discover how your life ended You need to talk to them & reveal the truth so the culprit can be judged! Paranormal Detectives is a deduction party game One player takes the role of a Ghost All other players work as Paranormal Detectives & need to discover how the victim died Using paranormal abilities they will communicate with the Ghost asking open questions about the details of the crime The Ghost answers in a variety of ghostly ways
- by arranging a hangman&8217;s knot playing chosen tarot cards creating a word puzzle on a talking board drawing by holding the hand of a detective & many more! At the beginning of the game the Ghost player receives a story card with a full description of the murder Each card depicts all the details of the case Each Detective receives asymmetrical pre-constructed set of interaction cards player investigation sheet & a player screen On their turn each Detective asks the Ghost any open question they want & plays a single interaction card The card implies the way the Ghost may answer the question There are 9 different interactions total most of them giving information to all Detectives Since Detectives may ask any open questions & interaction cards vary the game allows for lots of creativity for both the Ghost & Paranormal Detectives Detectives may try twice during the game to guess what has actually happened to the victim stating who was the killer where did it happen what was the motive how was it done & what was the murder weapon Then the Ghost writes down secretly on this Detective&8217;s investigation sheet how many of their answers are correct The game can end in two ways If a Detective gives all correct answers In this case they win together with the Ghost player If all Detectives run out of interaction cards In this case if no one has guessed everything correctly then whoever guessed correctly the most information is the sole winner of the game! Players 2-6 Playing time 30-50 mins Ages 12