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Rear Window

Hitchcock gives silent clues through windows, and you decide whether a murder happened and who did it.

Published by
Funko Games

Rear Window turns Hitchcock's film into a silent clue game: Did the neighbour commit a murder, or is your imagination running away with you? One player takes the role of the director, the Master of Suspense, and gives the others clues by building windows out of clues and signs, never speaking a word. The rest of you watch the apartments across the courtyard for odd noises and ominous patterns, from knives and a saw to bickering, laughter, music and a mysterious trunk. If there is a murderer, you must pin down all eight attributes of that person within four rounds without them catching on. Or you decide there was no crime at all. Cooperative deduction for three to five, about forty minutes, from age thirteen.

One player is a silent HitchcockEight attributes of a possible murdererFour rounds to decide whether a crime happened

Who it's for

You love the film or a good whodunit and want a cooperative deduction game that runs on interpretation rather than rules.

Not for you if…

You dislike ambiguous clues or being the silent clue giver. Success depends on reading each other well.

Vibe's take

Suspenseful and quiet, with whispered theories and tense glances at the windows. The silent director makes interpretation half the fun, and you doubt yourselves often.

#1,858 on BGG

of over 30,000 ranked board games

Published 2022 · 4 years ago

newer than 67% of games

In 4,523 collections

collected more than 54% of games

3–5 players · ages 10+

Best with 3 · publisher: 13+

about 40 min

shorter than 58% of games · typical 30–90 min

Complexity: light

Explained in 5 minutes · 1.7 out of 5 · lighter than 66%

Opinions: broad agreement

Most people rate it similarly

Language: little text

A few terms, easy to look up

Play style: cooperative