CSI: Crime Scene Investigation – The Board Game (2004)

About this game

The object of the game is to be the first player to enter Grissom’s office with a correct arrest warrant, determining the suspect’s means, motive and opportunity to commit the crime. Players become Crime Scene Investigators, sorting through three levels of evidence collected from seven Crime Lab Divisions located on the board and, as in the TV show, visit their colleagues in each division: Interrogation, Autopsy, Identification, Trace, Ballistics, Forensics and DNA, to gather sufficient data to make an arrest. Disclosure cards and Grissom cards come into play to test the players’ powers of deduction. Expanded by: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Boardgame – Crime Game & Booster Pack #1

Does it fit your group?

• Group size. Works with 2 to 4.
• Rules load. At 1.9/5 this is a light game — explain it in a few minutes, good for a table that has not played much.
• Age. The publisher suggests 13 and up. That rates the rules rather than the artwork, so judge the box yourself for younger players.