Competitive Where’s Wally
LAST MESSAGE
Designer: Juhwa Lee & Giung Kim | Publisher: iello
Hats off to the artists behind the sprawling landscapes that make up “hide and seek” activity books. We’ve all spent hours staring dumbfounded at scenes crammed with zany individuals and action, trying to spot bespectacled individuals in striped clothes. It’s surprising it’s taken this long for a board game to capture this challenge, especially one that delivers on it as well as this.
Last Message is a social deduction game like no other, requiring a minimum of three players to take the roles of Victim, Criminal and Detectives (the latter being the role all other players take.) Each game starts with the Victim and Criminal sitting behind a screen and choosing one character out of a sea of hundreds from one of six different pictures. These range from an alien bonanza in outer space to a city full of superheroes and criminals, with a diverse array of themes to keep games fresh for a long time.