A 1975
board game by
Gammon Games. A game card is drawn to select what
Adventure of
Sherlock Holmes is being played. A
short story is read off the card to all the players setting up the
Adventure. The players roll
dice moving a
token around a board depicting an
abstract map of
Holmes'
London. When a player lands on one of several special locations a
clue number is read off of the game card and found in an
index within a
clue book. The clue is read by that player alone. When a player has gathered enough information to make a stab at solving the
Adventure they must move their token back to
221b Baker Street and procalim the answer.
The game comes with a few dozen
Adventures to solve. After those are
solved the
replay value plummets rapidly.