Product Description

CSI: The Board Game is a fun, interactive, intriguing game that emulates the popular show on television and allows players to experience the excitement of solving a crime. The object of the game is to be the first player to enter Grissom's Office with a correct Arrest Warrant proving means, motive and opportunity. With the help of the show's main characters, players assume the role of Crime Scene Investigators in a race to collect three levels of evidence from all seven Crime Lab Divisions: Interrogation, Autopsy, Identification, Trace, Ballistics, Forensics and DNA. Disclosure Cards and Grissom Cards come into play and add to the interaction and excitement of the game. Test yourself, friends and family while learning about cutting-edge scientific methods and old-fashioned investigative police work as you try to build a case against one of three suspects.

Game includes: CSI Game Board, eight Crime Stories, 24 Suspects and Evidence Cards per story, two Grissom Cards per story, 25 Disclosure Cards, The CSI Handbook that includes: crime scene descriptions, crime scene photos, crime solutions, rules and glossaries, four arrest warrant/checklist folders and pad, four playing pieces with eight CSI character choices and one die.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #24499 in Toys & Games
• Brand: Specialty Board Games
• Model: 3743
• Released on: 2006-09-08
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 10.56" h x 10.56" w x 3.00" l, 2.70 pounds

Features

• Includes rules. crime scene photos, descriptions, solutions, character profiles, and glossaries.
• Game includes: CSI Game Board, eight Crime Stories,
• 24 Suspects and Evidence Cards per story
• Two Grissom Cards per story, 25 Disclosure Cards

From the Manufacturer
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation The Board Game is a fun, interactive, intriguing game that emulates the most popular show on television and allows players to experience the excitement of solving a crime. Designed for players ages 13 and up, the object of the game is to be the first player to enter Grissom?s Office with a correct Arrest Warrant proving means, motive and opportunity. With the help of the show?s main characters, players assume the role of Crime Scene Investigators in a race to collect three levels of evidence from all seven Crime Lab Divisions: Interrogation, Autopsy, Identification, Trace, Ballistics, Forensics, and DNA. Disclosure Cards and Grissom Cards come into play and add to the interaction and excitement of the game. Test yourself, friends and family while learning about cutting-edge scientific methods and old-fashioned investigative police work as you try to build a case against one of the three suspects.

Customer Reviews

1 star is generous
Errors in the game (typos, references to characters that don't exist, calling a character by two different first names, poor quality control). Inadequate and poorly written rules. Plots as thin as tissue paper. Well... so much for the games good points. Bad points includes slow tedious play and lots of pointless dice rolling. Combines luck with a half witted mystery. If your a fan of the series this will disappoint you, if not a fan it may convince you not to bother even checking our an episode.

Irritating, yet boring
Hard to imagine how this game could be any worse. Factual errors in questions, tedious game play, silly rules... the only ones who enjoyed this one were the 13 year old CSI fans who could cite all the actors' birthdays.

Just one example: to advance one must look at a picture of a bug and (by touch alone)blindly pull a matching bug from a velvet bag. Surprise! The bugs look nothing like the pictures in either shape or color. Pull out the rules to find out if there is a match.

Very poor design and execution on this one.

Challenging and Fun
I totally thought this game was great... I love the show and playing the game really added to the experience of immersing myself in forensics. It was challenging, but really fun....Since the game asks for your forensic knowledge, it was great to play if you are the type of person who likes to solve mysteries or wants to be a criminalist!