2010Rob Heinsoo, Peter Lee, Mike Mearls, Bill Slavicsek
- Videos
- 148
- Creators
- 53
Mainly playthroughs
1 - 5 players60 minMedium weight
Rear Window
2022Prospero Hall, Peter Lee
- Videos
- 39
- Creators
- 30
Mainly reviews. Rear Window is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 20 reviews, 7 how-to-play guides, 4 recorded sessions, and 8 unboxings.
3 - 5 players
40 min
Light weight: Learn it in minutes
From BoardGameGeek
Experience Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece film Rear Window in a game of deduction and suspense. Carefully observe strange clues and ominous patterns in the things going on in the apartments across the way. There are parties, knives, a saw, bickering, laughing, music...and a mysterious trunk. Do you detect a murder? Or is the secret, private world of the neighbors planting frightening ideas in your mind? In Rear Window, one player takes the role of director Alfred Hitchcock - the "Master of Suspense" - and communicates via building windows clues and signs for the other players without ever uttering a word, ideally giving them enough to go on that they can figure out who the murderer is - or whether a murder even took place. If a murderer is out there, you need to nail down all eight attributes of that person by the end of four rounds without them catching on to what you see and know.
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Which Rear Window video should I watch?
Rear Window has 39 videos from 30 creators: 20 reviews, 7 how-to-play guides, 4 playthroughs and 8 unboxings. They date from 2022 to February 2025.
To learn the rules, start with "Rear Window - How To Play" by Watch It Played, which runs 16 min. For a quicker teach, "Rear Window - Part 1: game set up | JLTEI" by Just Let Terence Explain It runs 6 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Rear Window Review - with Tom Vasel" by The Dice Tower. 19 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "Rear Window - GameNight! Se10 Ep26 - How to Play and Playthrough" by BoardGameGeek, one of 4 playthroughs.
If you like it, try Dungeons & Dragons: Castle Ravenloft Board Game, Horrified and Lords of Waterdeep, also by Peter Lee, or Disney Villainous: The Worst Takes it All, also by Prospero Hall.
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About Rear Window
From BoardGameGeek:
Experience Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece film Rear Window in a game of deduction and suspense. Carefully observe strange clues and ominous patterns in the things going on in the apartments across the way. There are parties, knives, a saw, bickering, laughing, music...and a mysterious trunk. Do you detect a murder? Or is the secret, private world of the neighbors planting frightening ideas in your mind? In Rear Window, one player takes the role of director Alfred Hitchcock - the "Master of Suspense" - and communicates via building windows clues and signs for the other players without ever uttering a word, ideally giving them enough to go on that they can figure out who the murderer is - or whether a murder even took place. If a murderer is out there, you need to nail down all eight attributes of that person by the end of four rounds without them catching on to what you see and know.
Designers
Prospero Hall, Peter Lee
Artist
Migy Blanco
Publisher
Funko Games
Categories
Movies & TVMurder / Mystery
Mechanics