A Carnivore Did It! Game Review

A Carnivore Did It! (2025, Horrible Guild) is a game so simple to review that I’m going to do my best to keep this to two minutes in length, based on the reading time estimate you see above. (In part, that’s because the game is a cooperative deduction game that, at its basic level, only gives players two minutes to solve that round’s crime.)

Working alongside fictional detective Fox Banner, players must deduce which of the 3-7 suspects are guilty of a crime that was recently committed in Furrow Heights. Using nothing but simple statement cards attached to each suspect, a dossier sheet detailing that round’s rules, and a magnifying glass, players must figure out which suspect is lying, which ones are telling the truth, and ultimately which one is guilty of each unnamed crime.

The suspects are animals—Panther, Shark, Bear, Iguana. There are seven suspects in the box. The easier cases only feature three suspects and one criminal…and the hard ones feature seven suspects, and as many as three guilty parties. There are two THOUSAND different cases on the dossiers. There are three play formats: co-op open cases, which are single cases to tackle in just a few minutes. You can play competitively, which is a race to see who can correctly guess the suspect(s) first. And there’s…

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