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Such a beautiful game!
Cryptid, Osprey Games, 2018 — front cover
"Cryptid: Extra Meeple" accessory (provided by Playagame Edizioni)
I've made a custom miniature of the Cryptid, and now we use it instead of a standard black pawn that was in the game box. It definitely adds a bit to atmosphere.
Because there's no actual creature that appears when someone wins, we have this little fella appear when the correct space is chosen!
Brute force searching!
Woohoo! Found  the Cryptid!
Final board state
Cryptid with upgrades

Cryptid (2018)

Players
3–5
Best: 4
Playing time
30–50 min
Age
10+
7.42
Average rating
17,501
Ratings
2.26/5
Weight
#344
BGG rank
Top 1,000
Alternate names:Cryptide +4 more
Designer:Ruth Veevers, Hal Duncan
Artist:Kwanchai Moriya
Publisher:Origames +11 more
Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).
Game DNA
  • This game: Strategy 5, Luck 5, Interaction 5, Complexity 4.5, Theme 6
Strategy5.0
Luck5.0
Interaction5.0
Complexity4.5
Theme6.0

This game's strategy, luck, interaction, complexity and theme.

DeductionModular BoardHexagon GridPattern RecognitionRaceDeductionInduction

Overview

You've studied the footage, connected the dots, and gathered what meager evidence you could. You're close — soon the whole world will know the truth behind the Cryptid. A group of like-minded cryptozoologists have come together to finally uncover the elusive creature, but the glory of discovery is too rich to share. Without giving away some of what you know you will never succeed in locating the beast, but reveal too much and your name will be long forgotten!

Cryptid is a unique deduction game of honest misdirection in which players must try to uncover information about their opponents' clues while throwing them off the scent of their own. Each player holds one piece of evidence to help them find the creature, and on their turn they can try to gain more information from their opponents. Be warned; give too much away and your opponents might beat you to the mysterious animal and claim the glory for themselves!

The game includes a modular board, five clue books, and a deck of set-up cards with hundreds of possible set-ups across two difficulty levels. It is also supported by an entirely optional digital companion, allowing for faster game set-up and a near-infinite range of puzzles.

—description from the publisher

Note: some copies have a delta clue booklet with misprints in eight clues:

2,#9,#13,#64 states cougar, should be bear 3,#63,#72,#95 states bear, should be cougar

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