Mysterium Park

There has been a mysterious disappearance of the director of a carnival! I am part of a team of psychics who interpret a series of 6 visions from a silent ghost to help solve the case. Can we use our intuition to solve the crime? So far, no. But that does not doesn’t mean we don’t love the hunt!!! Good bye professor plum, hello Mysterium park! Deduction through visions in a world of mystery. This game is quick to set up a lot of fun piled with abstract reasoning, active listening and co-operative gameplay. Playing with kids presented an immersive deduction experience that was like dixit with a purpose. Here are some benefits I found from playing this with my children and what skills they are passively learning through playing this game. Benefits: Creative/Critical Thinking and communication: As the suspects are laid out on a board. Discussion happens at the table around what everyone perceived. What each suspect is wearing, what their occupation is, what tools they use and even the background. This whole part of the game allows immersion begin working things out but also allows an attentive ghost to provide relevant visions to the psychics. Active listening: If you are the ghost, sometimes the hand you are dealt doesnt have any good vision cards and that is by design. Listening to the psychics allows the ghost to provide relevant visions to the conversation if nothing in their hand sticks out. Abstract Reasoning: Finding the right vision card for the suspect can be difficult. The ghost and the psychics need to be creative to relate the vision to the suspect or the scene. Co-operation: This is a co-operative game. As a psychic you are given a card but you can also ask for help or give help to your team mates to help solve the case. This is a great socialisation tool that lets everyone have equal opportunity to share their thoughts and predictions. Deduction: This is a deduction game. Mapping familiarities on the vision cards to the suspect and scene. And the familiarity can be anything, it can be a sharp object in the corner, the colour or the theme of the card. Final Thoughts: This game cool! It is hard, but not in a way where you want to give up because you were all in this together. If you fail the first time, you can bet another player will ask to be the ghost and you will all be in for another 30 minutes of clue gathering and deduction.