Scotland Yard (board game)

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Scotland Yard

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Players	3–6
Setup time	5–15 minutes
Playing time	1 hour (player dependent)
Chance	Initial set-up
Age range	10+
Skills	Tactics, strategy, and bluffing

Scotland Yard is a board game in which a team of players controlling different detectives cooperate to track down a player controlling a criminal as they move around a board representing the streets of London. It was first published in 1983 and is named after Scotland Yard which is the headquarters of London's Metropolitan Police Service in real-life. Scotland Yard is an asymmetric board game, during which the detective players cooperatively solve a variant of the pursuit–evasion problem. The game is published by Ravensburger in most of Europe and Canada and by Milton Bradley in the United States. It received the Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year) award in 1983,^[1] the same year that it was published.