Mr Jack Pocket
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The faithful adaptation of the board game: Mr. Jack Pocket! The famous and thrilling 2-player cat-and-mouse game.The Pocket version tweaks the rules for shorter, more intense games.
Whitechapel, 1888. Despite the police’s best efforts, Jack is still on the loose. The famous Sherlock Holmes is tasked with ending the crime spree of this maniac. But Jack has a few tricks up his sleeves and disguised himself as one of the detectives on the crime scene! It is up to Sherlock to unmask the madman; but he must hurry, or Jack will vanish into the night…
HOW TO PLAY:Each player endorses one role: Sherlock or Jack.Sherlock's goal is to clear every other investigator until there is only one left: the one Jack is impersonating. In order to achieve this, he will need to have line of sight over his fellow detectives; each night Jack will have to tell if he is currently visible or not, allowing Sherlock to eliminate suspects. On the opposing side, Jack's goal is only to delay the investigation until dawn, when he can escape. Each night, both players will be able to reshape the board in order to shed a dim light on the streets of the city, or to remain hidden in the shadows...
CHALLENGE YOUR DEDUCTION SKILLS IN SOLO OR MULTIPLAYER:Play against an adjustable AI to sharpen your mind or test your cunning against players from all around the world!
To sum up, the game features:
• The universe of Whitechapel inspired from the original board game, digitally modernized
• A tactical gameplay for tensed games
• A solo offline mode and an online mode
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Category : Puzzle
Reviews (30)
If the developer is reading, I'm thoroughly perplexed as to how to play in Duel mode with a friend on the same device. As far as I can tell, a critical aspect of this game is that the player who is Jack knows the suspect card they are playing as. Yet in Duel mode I can find no way at all for the player who is Jack to find out which suspect they are. The Duel mode game just goes straight in to the first turn. There doesn't seem to be anything I can see to click on for Jack to see who they are.
I have the game in the box and on my phones. I've been playing it on my phones for two years -- Samsung Galaxy S5 & S8+ -- with no issues in single player or duel mode. Never has crashed or had any glitches/bugs/etc.
Unplayable on Android TV or box. Game launches, then notification screen pops to let one know about online play, Asmodee Digital account, and tutorial with no way to by-pass it. Works fine on Note 9. For the purests, this plays nothing like the box game.
The game itself is fine. I am a boardgame fan and wanted to try this for a while. The app is ok but the AI cheats big time. When the computer is the detective it makes decisions they only make sense if you know who is Jack. Takes the fun out of it.
Nice Strategy Game. Wasn't aware of the board game version though i am into boardgames big time. Will buy tabletop version when possible. Review update : have played lots of times and the strategy is hard but fair. the odd mistake can foil your whole strategy. Excellent Game.
Game breaking bug one time out of 2 at the start of the AI turn it gets stuck and we have to quit
Was good while it lasted. Haven't been able to play in a while. Just says license verification failed when I start the game. Just quits out.
Great game but hard in Solo. I've played a 100times on easy and I don't recall having won once. Still a great game as I'm not giving up ! Lets loose a 101st time !
Dual mode doesn't work. Asmodee Digital Login fails constantly. Game was purchased to play online in Dual mode. Fail.
Freezes constantly. Sometimes takes 10-15 minutes to play a three minute game.
great game but it sometimes will freeze going from player to AI having to reset the current game.
A great version of the game, but the AI is too smart for me. I lose every time.
Half of the time the computer doesn't make a move and I have to restart to make it work.
Good game, but the online feature does not work at all.
buggy(sometimes ai stuvk on 2 turn), poor ux(cant undo actions once selected)
Keeps crashing when trying to play online
Why does this app need permissions to make phone calls??
Strategy at its best!
AI got stuck in the tutorial.
Last update 2018... It says all
A fun way to pass the time. You basically have a tile grid in which other characters can "look" down depending on whether the view is open or not. Each tile has a person on it. If your character does not see a person that is Jack, they are flipped over. If they see Jack in their line of site, all people in that line of site are kept face up. The idea is to narrow down the search until you only see Jack. In the mean time, the AI tries to frustrate your search through certain actions. It is a lot of fun and a great way to pass time. The AI is also challenging. As opposed to other reviewers, I have never encountered any problems.
I played this boardgame years ago so I remembered rules a bit but still I went through this app's tutorial. It was the worst game tutorial I have ever seen even if rules are really simple. If you want to purchase the game, read the rulebook first. Also I think that "speeding up animations" option doesn't spead up the tokens drawing enough. Game takes much longer than it should because of all those rotating tokens and flying stuff. This is frustrating experience. Game itself is great, app not so much.
AI gets stuck on its turn affecting UI also. Need to close App. Takes the concept of the original game very well.
This is frustrating. The computer uses move cards but then does not move the character. I'm not able to do this!
Good deduction game, but the game dont save progress, lost when exit - on Xiao Mi Mix 2 Andriod 7
Update 4th Jan 2018: Game still freezes on AI. Also Chase mode seems buggy (doesn't come on if you're Jack). Game looks pretty, just needs a patch. Sadly Asmodee have been really bad at fixing known issues.
Game AI periodically gets stuck and deadlocks itself, requiring exiting the gane. Hope it gets corrected soon because vthis is a nice little timewaster / brain teaser. Avoid the tutorial, just jump into the animated rules.
Freezes when waiting for AI to take its turn meaning at most I can play 1 turn. I've tried pressing and swiping everything but no luck. Waste of time and money
Works perfectly, plays just like the analogue version. AI performance is not amazing but competent.
This looks like it could be an amazing game but please, please, please fix the online dual mode. Was unable to play an online game as the app would randomly kick either me or the other player out of the game at the start. I will reconsider my rating if you can fix this.