CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: The Board Game

It's "Clue" for adults. I really enjoyed playing this game. It will take about thirty minutes to an hour to play.

Me and my aunt had so much fun playing this game it is very easy to learn how to play it

Why to hard to understand how you are supposed to do the game. Even when we have different people reading the instructions

My daughter loves it. She plays with her friend all the time. They are both obsessed with CSI though. I think you have to be a pretty big franchise fan to get into it.

If you are or know a CSI fan this would make a great gift. It gives you a chance to play like your a CSI and solve a crime.

My wife is a big fan of CSI, and I looking for something we could do together for entertainment had purchased this game for us.The board it self is pretty nice...thick cardboard stock with very nice pictures and color scheme that mirrors that of CSI.You choose to play as one of 8 central characters (it doesn't matter who you play..there are no advantages to any character), and move around the board in a random manner hopefully landing on certain key areas to pick up additional clues.The game ships with 8 different 'cases', and each time you play, the players try to solve the same case. There are three levels of clues. You must pick up all the clues in level 1 before you can proceed to level 2. Repeat again from level 2 to level 3. Once you have the clues for level 3, you can put together your case and hopefully choose the correct suspect. The 1st player to not only correctly identify the suspect AND the motive and means wins. This may sound fun and exciting, but my wife and I had a different take:While stories (i.e. 'cases') are intriguing and set the tone and mood for the game, we found the game moves pretty slow. Most of the time, you are hoping to roll the correct number on the dice to land on a space to get a clue, and you can't move on to the next level until you complete the level you are currently on: much time is spent on rolling and moving and getting nothing done.Second, the clues can be a bit vague or ambiguous. Many of the times we looked at a clue and wondered if it helped at all? Maybe the clues are more refined as we complete levels?Once you finally get all the clues, and review your notes you have written on your provided 'case file notepad', you can select a suspect, and also select his/his motive, means, and a few other categories. This is where I found the game very unforgiving. You have to select the correct answer in like 5 categories based on the clues. Since the clues are pretty vague to begin with, and everyone's interpretation slightly different, it's like picking winning lottery numbers to get everything correct. Though I chose the correct suspect, and got 3 out of the 5 categories correct, I still lost because of the other 2.The game is pretty educational however, because many of the clues go into great detail on forensics and tests administered. There was a lot of explanation of the science behind the crimes and cool factoids.I find that younger children or even teens may get very frustrated with the length of this game and very unforgiving 'winning' practices.Finally the game only ships with 8 cases. After you played all 8, there may not be any replay value. However the company suggests that they will have expansion packs in the future with new cases.I'm in no hurry.

Excellent !

I am a huge fan of CSI so this game was definitely right for me. It is a lot of fun!!!