Sherlock Holmes is one of the most enduring fictional characters of all time, and for good reason.
It’s a bold design, and a game experience that you won’t soon forget. Your hand gets larger the longer the game goes on, too, and soon you’ll be sweating as you wait for the opportune moment to slap down that 52 or 71. Communicating what numbers are in your hand without speaking is as difficult as it sounds, and inevitably you’ll miss your window more than once. The Mind is a tense game about body language and eye contact. The trick, though, is that nobody is allowed to talk. So, if you carry a 12 and another player has a 34, you must play your card to the center of the table before they do. The deck contains the numbers 1 to 100, and the cards are dealt randomly each round.
In this mind-bending experimental game, players must play cards from their hands to a common pile in ascending order, from smallest to largest. How well do you know your friends? The Mind asks this very question, and forces you to answer without a word.
