Alibis Review

"Alibis is played over 3 rounds, and each round includes 3 phases: 1. Create Alibis: players will look at their two suspects and write a one-word clue on their alibi tile to connect the 2 suspects. Any proper nouns, abbreviations, or acronyms are allowed, but the word must relate to the meaning and not sound, length, spelling, or suspect artwork or position."

"2. Share and Guess: starting with the first player, they will reveal their alibi tile, and each player will try and guess which suspect this word connects to by secretly writing the symbol of that alibi tile next to the suspect on their deduction board. Play will pass to the next player until everyone has taken a turn, and all players by the end of the phase write P on the suspect that they think is the perpetrator on the perpetrator board."

Alibis is a 2–6 player cooperative deduction and word-association game lasting about 20 minutes. Play has three rounds, each with Create Alibis, Share and Guess, and Reveal and Score phases. In Create Alibis players write one-word clues on alibi tiles to link two suspects; proper nouns, abbreviations, and acronyms are allowed but clues must relate to meaning rather than spelling, sound, artwork, or position. In Share and Guess players reveal tiles in turn while others secretly mark which suspect the clue connects to and name a suspected perpetrator. In Reveal and Score linked suspects and the perpetrator are exposed and players remove heat for correct guesses.

Read at Board Game Quest