In my opinion, this is not one of the better days of wonder games (Brand). Like always, the game construction is high quality and "pretty."

I'd describe the game as Kinda like clue, but without the weapons or rooms (it has rooms, but not like clue, different things happen depending on which room you enter), and with a touch of "Guess who."

It is good, but I have found that it almost always moves along a little slow for my taste, and I find the rotating Mass rule thing a bit confusing and overly complicated.

Not a game I ever expect will have it's own tournaments. Still, It is way better than monopoly.

Mystery of the Abbey is a great mystery game for the whole family. We have played it numerous times with anywhere from 3-6 players (from age 13-70), and it is a lot of fun every time. The premise of the game is to use deductive reasoning to figure out who murdered one of the monks. It takes about 10 minutes to learn how to play the game, and about an hour to complete it.

All contents of the game box, including the board, pieces, and suspect sheets, are high-quality and help create the Abbey setting. However, it is the action cards that continually add twists making each game a unique experience.

Days of Wonder does provide a link on their website which allows you to print out new suspect cards in full color if you use all the ones. If you like Clue, you will like Mystery of the Abbey.

Days of Wonder seems to focus on making really good games: Games that you can explain in five minutes, that take about an hour to play, and that are actually fun.

Better than Clue (because, really, if you were the killer, wouldn't you know?), Mystery of the Abbey is based on the same sort of premise: Using the process of elimination, find the killer. The suspects fall into a number of categories, and everyone tries to win points and figure out who did it before everyone else. We like the design of the abbey, and the functions of the different rooms.

Although the pieces and board are beautiful, and well-designed (a hallmark of Days of Wonder), we were disappointed with the tear-off, single-use score sheets - what are we supposed to do when we run out? Couldn't they have devised a re-usable system? The question/answer phase was often useless and tedious. Also, we've deliberately lost the card that requires you to chant for four turns.