5-minute mystery game

Mystery in 5 Minutes Game
The Museum of Everything needs your help! Someone stole a very important Gizmo from the curator and scribbled many strange symbols around. Only you, brave detectives, can solve the mystery and find the culprit!

Mystery in 5 Minutes is a family deduction game where you collectively search for symbols, gather clues, and try to eliminate suspects. Time to solve the mystery is limited, so you must act quickly and make decisions efficiently!

How does it work?
At the start, choose an investigation card that sets your goal and draw the appropriate number of culprit tiles. Distribute culprit cards among players, then set the timer.
During play, you must quickly find symbols on scene cards. Each picture contains 5 symbols. One player operates the cryptex, a special mechanism for marking specific symbols. When all are found, check if the cryptex pattern matches the back of the scene card. If yes, you get a clue of the chosen color.
Clues are suspect attributes that help eliminate cards from your hand. Each clue tile and culprit tile back has colored stripes to compare. If identical, the suspect has that trait; if different, they do not. Based on this, discard mismatched cards.
When you are sure of the thief’s identity and only one card remains, stop the timer and check if your deduction matches the culprit tile.

Why you’ll love this game?
You practice spotting symbols on cards, improving observation and attention scanning. It’s also a great introduction to deduction games.
There are 19 investigation cards at three difficulty levels, offering various goals: sometimes find a specific clue set, other times arrest multiple culprits.
Scene cards appear in different configurations, making memorization harder and keeping the game challenging for a long time.