We've done more than a couple of these "solve a mystery/murder" games and this was the best by far. It solves a lot of the problems we've run into with other games by enforcing more of a "board game" aspect to it. Due to the format/mechanics of the game, you actually get three separate mysteries in the box set, so that makes this even more of a great value.Here are a couple of reasons why this game is superior :-In other games you are presented with a mass of evidence, in the form of documents, etc. Then since there is no clear place to start, you just start reading papers, looking at photographs etc. for quite a bit of time to get started. For this game most of the evidence is provided in the form of a deck of large cards. Each card has a number in it. You start with card 1, which then provides you with choices of other cards to flip over, base on which direction you want your investigation to go. In gets the investigation going in a guided way so you're making choices immediately and then branches out exponentially quickly. So still lots of decisions to make, but in a guided way so that you're not just sitting there for a while not sure how to get going.-In other games you may run into a dead-end or roadblock in the investigation. This may be because your overlooked something, but can also be cause the game design was lacking in that moment, a bad clue or badly designed piece of evidence or a jump in logic you're supposed to make that the designers didn't feel a different choice was just as likely. This can be really frustrating. This game maybe you go down a decision branch that isn't as fruitful as you'd like or turns out to be a red herring, but its part of the game and you know immediately. Then you just return to an earlier choice available to you that hasn't been explored yet, flipping over a new card. You've never hit a dead-end as long as you still have available cards/options to flip over.-In other games there is a phase at the end where you think you know what the final answer, but you're not sure, so you basically review everything once again. Its a high pressure point, cause once you open the final answer envelope, you are either right or wrong. In this game at any point you can modify your answer to the scenarios final questions of who, how, why, etc. You get more points though for locking in those answers earlier in the game before you've flipped over too many cards. But in the end, you still just keep flipping all the cards over until you reach the end of the clues, at which points you can still change your answers to the final questions, before opening the final envelope. Then you get a higher score for figuring out everything earlier. This is a great way of addressing the problem of other games, cause you know you'll get to all the clues eventually, and there is a definitive point at which point you move from that stage of the game to opening the final answers.I loved this version of this solve a mystery game. I look forward to completing all the scenarios in this box and then probably buying additional sets in the series. I would recommend this to anyone who is into solving a mystery with some friends!