Designed by: Bård Tuseth,Kristian Amundsen Østby
Destination X is a family-friendly, educational game of spies and detectives: one player will be the spy, and the others work as a team of detectives to try and track down which country they’re in.
The game comes with a huge deck of destination cards, one for each country in the world. Six (or more if you choose) cards are laid face-up on the table, and the spy secretly chooses which country to ‘hide’ in. Once they’ve chosen, they find the countrys’ listing in the handbook, being careful not to reveal it to the detectives. The detectives each have three informant cards, and they take it in turns to play an informant card to the table. Each card demands that the spy give away a small amount of information about the country they are in – it might be its main industry, population, how many land borders, what type of government and so on. After the spy gives the answer (reading from the handbook) the detectives must either eliminate a destination from those on the table, or accuse the spy of being at a particular destination: if they eliminate the destination where the spy is, the spy wins. If they falsely accuse the spy of being somewhere they aren’t, the spy wins. And obviously if they correctly accuse, the detectives win!
First to three rounds wins the game.
None.
None really; it's a game of conversation and everyone is involved in that except the spy. But the spy can obviously listen in...
Entirely absent on the rules: the key here is geographical knowledge (and learning!) so it's an ideal one for parents to play with kids - but intriguing enough to entertain adults playing by themselves too.
Not a game with huge depth in terms of How You Play, but there's a surprising amount of countries in the world...
2-8
Players
10+
Years
15-30
Mins
Sam says
A fun deduction game where the hidden destination element can entertain kids even when they've no real clue what, for instance, Armenia's gross domestic product is. Most of the time I don't know either, but you don't need to be a geography buff to enjoy the game any more than you need to be an actual detective. Lots of fun.