Sherlock: Ensayos Fabianos

About this board game

Sherlock: Ensayos Fabianos is a cooperative mystery game for 1–8 players, designed for an approximately 60-minute investigation. Released in 2020, it challenges your team to determine what happened to John Marlowe, a defender of the working class found dead in his home.

Was it suicide or murder? Your detective team must analyze a case containing 32 clues, revealing information one card at a time. Choose a card from your hand and place it on the table so everyone can read or see it. Reading shared information aloud helps the group assemble the details of the incident.

Not every clue is useful. Playing an irrelevant card costs points at the end of the game, while vital information may be essential to resolving the mystery. You can discuss your theories at any moment and talk about the cards in your hand, but you cannot show those cards to the other players. While a card remains in your hand, you may only read aloud words written in bold or text framed inside an image.

• Reveal or discard clues as the investigation unfolds.
• Share theories while preserving hidden information in your hand.
• Work together to reconstruct the events surrounding Marlowe’s death.

Once all clue cards have been revealed or discarded, the team examines the available information and prepares a theory of what happened. During this final discussion, you may freely talk about discarded cards or information you remember from them. Then open the questionnaire: each correct answer adds two points.

Sherlock: Ensayos Fabianos combines shared deduction, limited information, and careful attention to detail in a focused mystery experience. Every card can influence your score, so decide what deserves attention as you work toward the truth behind this unpleasant incident.