Mr. Jack Detective Game for 2 persons

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Note: after everything has been set up at the beginning of the game, four characters can be seen and four can't. When a character is on (or moves through) an open manhole, he/she can use 1 movement point to go to any other hex with an open manhole. The character tokens, the covered manhole tiles, and the lit gaslight tiles are set on the board in accordance with the following picture. The Detective flips them over so that their “Innocent” sides are up. It’s important that their locations remain unchanged.

The character tokens, the covered manhole tiles, the lit gaslight tiles are set on the board as shown in picture 1. Reminder: note that this is only possible during a turn when the Witness card's Not Seen side is face up.The gaslights are lit when a lit gaslight tile is placed on them. They illuminate all the adjacent street hexes. If there is no lit gaslight tile on the hex, then the gaslight is out. All characters are placed suspect side up on the board, along with manholes, lit gaslights and police cordons. To use a character, a player can either move the corresponding character token or use the character’s special ability. The character card is then placed face down on the table.

Seen characters: the characters that are on an illuminated street hex (hex adjoining a lit gaslight) are seen, since they can be seen by anyone in the district, any passer-by. The same rule applies if two characters are on adjoining hexes, even in the darkness. The detective chooses a character among the four and plays it (he moves the character token and/or uses the character's special ability). The character card is then turned over and placed face down.Note that as the game starts, four characters are in shadow and the four others are in the light - all the character tokens are set with the suspect side up. The golden circle indicates when to use the special ability of a character depending on the shape of the circle:

Those two characters are considered as seen since they are close enough to see each other in spite of the shadows. During each turn, four characters are played, two by each player. A. During the odd-numbered turns (1-3-5-7)Unseen characters: the characters that are not on an illuminated hex (lit by gaslight or Watson's lantern) or on a street hex adjacent to another character are considered to be unseen. Passing over an open manhole cover allows, for 1 movement point, to move towards any other open manhole cover. Official rules in PDF game board picturing the Whitechapel district and divided into hexagonal areas (or hexes). The right section of the board features a turn counter section.