Description

?????? (Logical Thinking) is a two player deduction game from Japan. Designed by a manga artist and published by a manga publisher, the game is sold in their stores and has a manga produced with it.

The deck has cards numbered from 0 to 9, and each card has a special action on it. Each player chooses two cards and hides them from the other player, standing them up in small standees. The players must deduce which cards are hidden.

The players start with two hit points. Each time a player makes a correct deduction, and accurately identifies a hidden card (an attack), the hiding player loses a hit point. When a player gets to zero, or starts their turn with no hand cards, they lose the game. But players can recover points when playing cards during the game.

Each player has a hand of the remaining cards, and take turns playing a hand card and then making a guess. The hand card played has a special demand, such as, 'is this card a 5 or higher?', or 'which card has the higher value?'. Other cards have actions such as, return a played card to your hand, and, your opponent may not attack this turn. As cards are played out to the table, it becomes more obvious what cards are hidden.

However, when a hidden card is revealed, it goes back to the player's hand and they may place another card hidden.

By logical deduction, a player should be able to work out which cards are hidden and eliminate their opponent.
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