Mysterium Board Game: I’m Not Playing This Again, Win My Copy

I’m accepting the fact that dozens of incredible titles in my spare room just won’t be played again.

I am culling, beginning with a game that I think is beautiful, well-designed and worthy, but just not for me: Mysterium, the 2015 murder mystery deduction hit.

The pieces and cards are all there. It’s been played only three times. I want it to live with somebody who loves it.

Here’s how this works:

• I’m still seeking donors who want their own copy of my beautiful and dangerous cocktail booklet. Anybody who donates in Dec. 2024 gets the booklet and is in the prize pool.

• At the end of December, one random donor will get my copy of Mysterium. I’ll mail it in Jan. 2025.

• I have to limit the Mysterium prize to donors in the U.S. lower 48, as international postage rates are breathtaking.

That’s it. Donate and get the cocktail booklet. Maybe end up with a beautiful coop deduction game in which a ghost tries — using only lush and oblique image cards — to tell a table full of psychics who was responsible for their death.