Scotland Yard details
- Designer: Dorothy Garrels, Fritz Ifland, Manfred Burggraf, Werner Scheerer, Werner Schlegel, Wolf Hoermann
- Artists: Erika Binz-Blanke, Franz Vohwinkel, Rene Habermacher, Thomas Weiss, Torsten Wolber, Ugurcan Yüce
- Publishers: Bonaparte, Educa Sallent SA, Funskool Games, Grow Jogos e Brinquedos, Kawada, Co. Ltd, Korea Boardgames co., Ltd., Majora, Milton Bradley, Otto Maier Verlag, Ravensburger, Ravensburger Spieleverlag GmbH, Swan Panasia Co., Ltd., ツクダプリスクール (Tsukuda Preschool)
- Release Date: 1983
- Player count : 3 - 6
- Age range : 10+
- Time range : 45 minutes
- Mechanism(s): Hidden Movement, Partnerships, Point to Point Movement, Secret Unit Deployment, Team-Based Game
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In Scotland Yard, one of the players takes on the role of Mr. X. His job is to move from point to point around the map of London taking taxis, buses or subways. The detectives – that is, the remaining players acting in concert – move around similarly in an effort to move into the same space as Mr. X. But while the criminal's mode of transportation is nearly always known, his exact location is only known intermittently throughout the game.
The 125 fare tickets are 5 black, 23 pink underground, 43 green bus, 54 yellow taxi.
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