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Nov 1, 2025·Review·10:03·25·Watch on YouTube

Before You Buy Stratego: Spies & Lies (Outset Media’s Modern Deduction Game!)

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Watch “Before You Buy Stratego: Spies & Lies (Outset Media’s Modern Deduction Game!),” a board game review for Spies & Lies: A Stratego Story on BoardGameVideo.

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⚔️ Before You Buy Stratego: Spies & Lies — Outset Media takes the iconic game of battlefield deception and turns it into a fast-paced, bluff-heavy strategy experience! In this video, I’ll cover everything you need to know before you pick it up: how it plays, what makes it different from classic Stratego, and whether it deserves a spot on your shelf. TIMESTAMPS 0:35 Theme 0:54 Audience 1:02 Price 1:25 Player Count 1:45 Weight 3:02 Length 3:26 How it Looks 3:46 Set-Up 4:03 Teach 4:24 Primary Mechanics 4:38 How it Feels 5:15 What I Like 5:55 What I Dislike 6:38 Similar Games 7:21 Would I Purchase 7:51 Replayability 8:04 Final Ranking 🎯 What You’ll Learn: – The core mechanics & how deception drives gameplay – How Outset Media reimagined the classic formula – What makes Spies & Lies stand out for 2–4 players – My honest pros, cons, and final verdict 🕵️‍♂️ Game Info: Publisher: Outset Media Players: 2 | Ages: 12+ | Time: ~30 mins 🧩 Join the Gaming Caravan community – Free Florida board-game events, reviews, and local meetups! 🌴 https://gamingcaravan.com 💚 Kickstarter Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gamingcaravan/board-game-florida?ref=6o9kut 🎬 Subscribe for more board-game reviews, Kickstarter spotlights, and Florida tabletop events! 👉 https://www.youtube.com/@gamingcaravan #Stratego #SpiesAndLies #OutsetMedia #BeforeYouBuy #BoardGameReview #GamingCaravan #BoardGames #DeductionGames #StrategyBoardGames #TabletopGaming #FamilyBoardGames

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Spies & Lies: A Stratego Story

Spies & Lies: A Stratego Story

2019·Don Eskridge

2 players
30 min
Light weight: Learn it in minutes

About Spies & Lies: A Stratego Story, from BoardGameGeek:

The head-to-head game of deployment, deduction and deception Break the deadlock in the final days of war. Victory will hinge on the actions of a handful of men – and we women spies… Go head-to-head as you secretly select soldiers with different abilities to engage the enemy. Each of you will have the opportunity to sabotage your opponent's missions – using careful deployment, clever deduction and surprising deception. With every enemy soldier you identify, with every advance you rebuff, you'll tighten the noose, infiltrating further into the enemy camp and taking the Double Agent a step closer to capturing the enemy flag! Spies & Lies is played in 3 rounds. Each round consists of 3 phases (Deploy, Intel and Mission) which will determine which player can move the Double Agent into enemy territory on the game board. The first player to land on the enemy's flag with the Double Agent wins (or the player who is closest to doing so when the third round ends). -description from publisher

Designer

Don Eskridge

Artist

Roland MacDonald

Publisher

Jumbo

Categories

Card GameNapoleonic

Mechanics

Betting & BluffingHidden Units
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