221B Baker Street (board Game)
221B Baker Street: The Master Detective Game is a board game based on Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective Sherlock Holmes and developed by Gibsons Games in 1975 and sold by the John H. Hansen Co. in the US since 1977. The players have to solve cases using the clues provided by visiting locations on the board such as 221B Baker Street, Scotland Yard, Apothecary and Pawn Broker. The original game has twenty cases, but there are eight expansion packs that provide twenty additional cases each. The second version has 40 cases, but is no longer available. A travel version, published by Gibsons Games, came out in the late 1990s, and is no longer available.
A sequel game, 221B Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes and the Time Machine came out around 1996, but is no longer published.
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