Reads the case brief aloud. Coordinates all discussion. Manages round timings. Casts the deciding vote when the group is split on the final accusation.
📂 Your First Evidence
Review your assigned evidence files first.
Special Ability
⚡ Focus Call — Once per game, pause everything. Force the group to re-examine one specific piece of evidence together for 5 minutes.
✓ Active in all player counts
Interprets all medical, autopsy and toxicology evidence. Establishes cause and time of death. Presents findings first in Round 1 — always.
📂 Your First Evidence
Review your assigned evidence files first.
Special Ability
⚡ Lab Clarification — Once per game, ask the host one yes/no question about any forensic finding. No host? Draw a hint card instead.
✓ Active in all counts · Merges with Lead in 2-player
Owns the master timeline board. Tracks every alibi and flags any gap where a suspect has no confirmed location. Nothing moves without your sign-off.
📂 Your First Evidence
Review your assigned evidence files first.
Special Ability
⚡ Timeline Freeze — Once per game, pause discussion and force the group to identify a 30-minute window where one named suspect has no alibi.
✓ Active in 3+ players
Reads and cross-examines all witness and suspect statements. Hunts for contradictions between what suspects say and what physical evidence shows.
📂 Your First Evidence
Review your assigned evidence files first.
Special Ability
⚡ Contradiction Confirmed — Correctly identify a statement that contradicts hard evidence and announce it. Your team earns +15 bonus points.
✓ Active in 4+ players
Analyzes all financial documents — bank statements, invoices, company registrations. Follows the money. Motive lives here.
📂 Your First Evidence
Review your assigned evidence files first.
Special Ability
⚡ Money Trail — Once per game, connect a transaction to a named suspect and reveal their motive tier: Strong / Weak / None.
✓ Active in 4+ players
Handles all digital evidence — WhatsApp screenshots, call logs, email chains, CCTV stills, metadata. Builds the digital footprint.
📂 Your First Evidence
Review your assigned evidence files first.
Special Ability
⚡ Deep Dive — Once per game, reveal hidden metadata from any digital evidence card. (Additional clue printed on the reverse of the physical card.)
✓ Active in 5+ players
Owns the crime scene sketch and all spatial logic. Determines where everything was, how the crime physically unfolded, and what was staged.
📂 Your First Evidence
Review your assigned evidence files first.
Special Ability
⚡ Scene Reconstruction — Propose a physical narrative of how the crime happened. If confirmed correct at the reveal, team earns +20 bonus points.
✓ Active in 5+ players
Must actively argue the strongest case AGAINST the group's leading theory at all times. Cannot vote with the majority in Round 3. Prevents fatal groupthink.
📂 Your First Evidence
Review your assigned evidence files first.
Special Ability
⚡ Doubt Card — Once per game, force the team to spend 3 minutes re-examining evidence against their top suspect before the final accusation.
✓ Active in 6+ players only