Rules

The Scene

Mr X, a most-wanted criminal is on the run in Central London and Scotland Yard's finest detectives are in hot pursuit. To escape capture, Mr. X must move cleverly and secretly(Mr. X's whereabouts are revealed only as many as 5 times during the game); to corner Mr. X, the detectives must use ingenuity and cooperation.

One player is Mr. X. All other players are the detectives. Whether one is being chased or doing the chasing, all players travel from location to location by bus, taxi or underground. To take a certain for of transportation, you must be on the correct boarding spot and have the correct fare- no ticket, no ride!

The Challenge

If you're Mr. X, you must avoid capture long enough for the detectives to run out of their fare tickets.

If you're the detectives, one of you must capture Mr. X by landing on the same space Mr. X occupies.

Game start

Each detective is supplied with the following amount of fare tickets:

• 10 Taxi
• 8 Bus
• 4 Subway

and Mr. X is supplied with:

• 4 Taxi
• 3 Bus
• 3 Subway

The detectives' fare supply is limited in a way that when one uses a fare ticket, it is removed from it's inventory and handed over to Mr. X; that way, Mr. X's fare supply expands and he shall always have a fare ticket to make a move.

Next, a starting position for each player shall be assigned. Detectives will be placed on their possitions on the map, and Mr. X's possition should remain hidden for some time.

The Game

During the game, each turn all the players must make a move. A move can be made only on the colored route and to the next location on the route that matches the ticket the player paid. The routes are:

• Solid yellow line - Taxi
• Solid green line - Bus
• Broken pink line - Subway
• Solid black line - Boat

Each detective shall state a move it made, saying to what node it moved and what transport it used. Mr. X shall only state a transport he used, keeping his location a secret. No player can refuse to make a move. Exception is if a player can not make a valid move, as he does not have any fare ticket to move from his location.

There can not be two detectives on the same location, and in a situation when a detective moves to the location where Mr. X is located, or Mr. X moves to the location of any detective, the game is over and Mr. X is captured.

Mr. X surfaces, appears on the board, in regular intervals during the game, on the 3rd turn, 8th, 13th, 18th and 24th. On all the other turns, his position is kept a secret.

Mr. X is given 5 pieces of a special fare ticket, a black one, which serves as a camouflage. It can be used instead of any other fare ticket, in a way not to reveal to the detectives what fare he used, or to travel by boat down the Thames river.

End Game

The game is over if any of the following occur:

• If any detective moves onto a numbered location that Mr. X occupies, Mr. X is captured and the game is over. Mr. X has lost the game and the Scotland Yard detective teams is the winner.
• If none of the detectives can make a move, due to the lack of fare tickets, or lack of possible moves with the fare tickets they have, then Mr. X wins the game and the detectives lose.