Dust Off Your Magnifying Glass For These New Mystery Games From Ravensburger And ThinkFun

Ravensburger and ThinkFun have some fun new mystery games to help spice up game night. Among these is a new 40th anniversary edition of Scotland Yard featuring Sherlock Holmes. If you enjoy solving mysteries then here’s the list of games you’ll want to check out:

• Ravensburger Games

  • Scotland Yard: Sherlock Holmes Edition

    • Celebrate 40 years of Ravensburger’s classic board game with a Sherlock Holmes twist! Professor Moriarty is on the run. He was last spotted escaping in a hot air balloon over the Thames. Use your deductive reasoning to catch him, but beware: Moriarty is dangerous and concocting more crimes. (Ages 10+ / $39.99 MSRP / Available on Amazon)  

  • echoes: The Cursed Ring 

    • Ravensbuger’s echoes line is a highly immersive audio mystery series where players use a deck of illustrated cards and spine-tingling sound clues to complete a story and solve a mystery. In echoes: The Cursed Ring, a mysterious heirloom places a young woman in danger. Is the ring cursed? Listen to echoes from the past to discover the truth. (Ages 14+ / $10.99 MSRP / Available on Amazon)   

• ThinkFun Games

  • Cold Case: End of the Line

    • Two murders plague Pauvigny, France. Packed with realistic documents pertaining to the crime, use your best investigative skills to crack the case. Great to solve solo or with a small group of friends, Cold Case: End of the Line has twists and turns for hours of exciting play. (Ages 14+ / $11.99 MSRP / Available on Amazon)  

  • Escape the Room: Murder in the Mafia

    • The first thing you notice when you enter your office is Mickey Malone's dead body. Mickey was the chief enforcer for the local mafia. You've had your run-ins with Mickey and might treat news of his death as a good thing, if it wasn't your gun on the floor next to him. Man, you hate Mondays. (Ages 14+ / $34.99 MSRP / Available on Amazon) 

If you need a place to start on this list, I really recommend Echoes. I’ve played a different scenario for it, but it was really fun. It doesn’t have much of a replay value unless you wait long enough to forget the solution, but the price is low enough that it isn’t much of a problem. I think all of these sound pretty fun but I think I’m most intrigued by Escape the Room: Murder in the Mafia. What do you think, do you enjoy a good mystery game? Which one would you most want to play?