Black Stories: Mittelalter Edition
BGG rank
BGG #21,789
BGG rating
5.8

Black Stories: Mittelalter Edition

2012

Rules assistance for Black Stories: Mittelalter Edition

Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.

  • 2–15 players
  • 20 min
  • 12+
  • Complexity 1.8/5

For 2 players

Rules assistant for Black Stories: Mittelalter Edition

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Black Stories: Mittelalter Edition is a board game released in 2012 for 2–15 players, 20 minutes per game, and ages 12 and up. It was designed by Corinna Harder and Jens Schumacher and its main mechanics are Storytelling.

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About the game

Black Stories are fiddly, morbid and mysterious riddles for teenagers and adults. The players try to reconstruct the crime by asking, guessing and fiddling about. A spooky card game just right for any party. Outrageous witch trials, wicked instruments, ghastly and catastrophic personal hygiene counts - what age could better fit to black stories as the Dark Ages? Part of the puzzles are based on historical events in this edition, some of them are from the medieval life.

Mechanics

Publishers

  • Raven Distribution
  • Kaissa Chess & Games
  • MINDOK
  • Gen-X Games (GenX)
  • Kikigagne?
  • moses. Verlag GmbH

Questions and answers

Black Stories: Mittelalter Edition supports 2–15 players according to the catalogue. This range comes from the publisher’s listed player count, so the game can be set up for any group size within it. Some setups, rules and scoring details may still vary by player count, so check your edition’s rulebook for the exact configuration.